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This American Platoon is Led by a Brit, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2000
Posted On August 20, 2000 October 8, 2017 Written By Damianista Comments Off on This American Platoon is Led by a Brit, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2000
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
Watch Out for The Young Dudes, Evening Standard, July 8, 2000
Posted On July 8, 2000 October 8, 2017 Written By Damianista Comments Off on Watch Out for The Young Dudes, Evening Standard, July 8, 2000
Young, gifted and British: the new crop of Brit actors seems to have been cast in the mould marked "Good-Looking — But In An Unconventional Manner". And there is nothing the film industry likes more than faces that stick in the mind long after they've smiled or scowled their way across a screen. Continue reading Watch Out for The Young Dudes, Evening Standard, July 8, 2000
In Rank with Spielberg and Hanks, The Evening Standard, May 16, 2000
Posted On May 16, 2000 October 9, 2017 Written By Damianista Comments Off on In Rank with Spielberg and Hanks, The Evening Standard, May 16, 2000
In rank with Spielberg and Hanks
by Kensal Green, The Evening Standard, May 16, 2000
It's incredibly easy to spot Damian Lewis as he wanders into the gastro-pub near his flat in Kensal Green. Not only is his hair very ginger – brazen- coloured, really – but he's wearing a khaki jumper and trousers which make him look, from a distance, like a soldier without the boots.
Most people will know 28-year-old Lewis as a soldier – Lieutenant Neil Loughrey, the morally-compromised British Army officer in the BBC's acclaimed drama Warriors. This was the kind of TV event which provoked debate (about the UN's role in Bosnia) well after its broadcast date and thus bestowed instant fame on its actors. In its wake, Lewis was offered a part in the BBC's current late-twenty-something series Hearts and Bones. He plays Mark, miserably married to Dervla Kirwan (as if that were possible), desperately trying to leave his early-twenties behind, but not making a very good fist of it. I get the feeling that this pub on the Harrow Road is full of Marks. Continue reading In Rank with Spielberg and Hanks, The Evening Standard, May 16, 2000
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