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Damian Lewis: Life, The Telegraph, October 25, 2008
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Damian Lewis: Life
By Michael Deacon – The Telegraph – 25 October 2008
Damian Lewis, star of ITV's new US series Life, tells Michael Deacon about his role as an ex-convict, being a British actor in America and his love of bicycle
Charlie Crews, the character Damian Lewis plays in Life – ITV's new drama import from America – is perpetually defeated by modern technology. Lewis isn't too hot on it himself. The London-born 37-year-old can't stand Facebook, worries that video games are a threat to the film business and struggles with text messages. When we meet he is wrestling with his mobile phone: 'Sorry, I've just got to text my sister-in-law, who's a tyrant – if I don't text back within half an hour she shouts at me,' he says. 'My text response time is usually about two days.' His mobile, grey and chunky, is a model so antiquated that most teenagers would probably mistake it for a TV remote control.
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Red Hot: The Irresistible Rise of Damian Lewis, The Independent, September 8, 2006
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Red hot: The irresistible rise of Damian Lewis
by Liz Hoggard, The Independent, September 8, 2006
Damian Lewis is an intense chap, capable of conveying a huge range of emotions with the smallest gesture. He's hotly tipped for an Oscar for his new film. And he's a real gent. Just don't call him posh, whatever you do. Interview by Liz Hoggard.
"Ask him about that intense thing he does with his eyes," a female journalist suggested when she heard I was interviewing the actor Damian Lewis. What's striking about Lewis is how much he manages to convey by doing so very little. There is stillness about him on screen, a faraway look that can evoke anger or desire or – if you saw his rollicking performance as Benedict in BBC1's modern-day version of Much Ado about Nothing – sheer hilarity. Continue reading Red Hot: The Irresistible Rise of Damian Lewis, The Independent, September 8, 2006
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Move over Coen Brothers for the new kids on the set, Western Mail, May 6, 2006
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Move over Coen Brothers for the new kids on the set
by Claire Hill, Western Mail, May 6, 2006
Move over the Coen Brothers, there's a new film making duo in town, and this time they're Welsh. Actor Damian Lewis has teamed up with his baby brother Gareth to make their first film together. Claire Hill joined them on location in their beloved Wales
DAMIAN LEWIS'S legs are half sticking out of a makeshift vent shaft as the actor attaches knee pads underneath his all- black ensemble.
A gun is visible and is just peeping out from the band of his trousers. Next to his feet, rolls of silver gaffer tape and wires are scattered on the floor. Directly in front of him, in the old paper mill, tucked at the back of a Cardiff industrial estate, someone fashions a gun holster out of an old yoga mat.
The film clapper board reads Roll 46, Slate 74, Take 1 and the rest of the 40-strong crew are getting ready for a scene rehearsal.
The Welsh actor's key role in this scene is to crawl through the painted silver boxes and make it look as if he is scrabbling through the vents of a ceiling shaft.
And, he has to do all of this while holding a gun, a motive in his mind and a sense of ennui about his current situation in life. Impossible? That's acting for you, darling. Continue reading Move over Coen Brothers for the new kids on the set, Western Mail, May 6, 2006
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Interview: The Charmer, The Times / Sunday Times, November 17, 2002
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by Lesley White, The Times / Sunday Times, November 17, 2002
Smooth, confident and raring to reinvent himself, Damian Lewis is just the chap to play Jeffrey Archer, says Lesley White
When we meet on the Pinewood set of the slapstick satire, written by Guy Jenkin, creator of Drop the Dead Donkey, Lewis's flaming red hair is dyed brown, the make-up department has achieved a not totally streak-free job with the fake tan, and, with his funky shorts, he is transformed not into Jeffrey, but a cross between an Ibiza raver and a boy scout. As Greta Scacchi is playing Margaret Thatcher, we can assume no attempt at impersonation is being made.
In some ways, Lewis, 31, and the celebrated fantasist have more in common than it might first appear. While the latter has spent his adult life embellishing his biography for public consumption, the actor went through a period of reverse self-invention. Rather than admit having attended Eton, for example, he told early interviewers that he went to boarding school, then changed the subject before they could ask which one. "I tried to sever all ties to my posh upbringing. It made me feel as if I couldn't be a genuine moody actor. I'm desensitised to that now."
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This American Platoon is Led by a Brit, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2000
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Damian Lewis survived a slew of tests to win the role of a war hero.
by DAVID GRITTEN, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2000
HATFIELD, England — "I've really screwed up my hearing," grimaces Damian Lewis. "I should have had earplugs in."
The mud-spattered Lewis, in a World War II paratrooper uniform, has spent the morning shooting blanks (24 for each take) from an M-1 rifle at a crowd of extras dressed as German soldiers.
It is a deafening business, and everyone else on set either wears earplugs or covers their ears whenever director Tom Hanks yells "action!" Continue reading This American Platoon is Led by a Brit, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2000
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