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Aug.
24th,
2007

2007/08/24

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Aug.
23rd,
2007

2007/08/23

In this IndieLondon interview actor Steven Mackintosh talks about his role in The Escapist playing “Tony” the younger brother of “Rizza” (Damian Lewis) saying:

The Escapist is “…really a great, great script by first time writer-director Rupert Wyatt who, I think, is going to do really well. It’s a really classy script. It was a bit like a puzzle to read, and quite cryptic, but it comes together at the end. It’s basically a smart angle on a prison escape movie. I play a guy called Tony who’s a serious junkie within the prison. I’m also the brother of Damien Lewis’s character and together they’re running the prison – everything has to be operated through them. He’s a fairly nasty guy…”

It sounds like Damian will be playing a villain once again, oh dear! (But he does it so well that you can’t help loving him at the same time that you’re hating him!)

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Aug.
22nd,
2007

2007/08/22

Damian Lewis is featured in the new Vogue magazine!

The September 2007 US edition of Vogue is their largest issue ever (840 pages) and includes a photo and article (pages 616 and 619) about Damian Lewis in the new NBC drama Life. Click here to view the scans at the Photo Gallery Warehouse.

According to author Joan Juliet Buck, Charlie Crews is “…played by the witty British actor Damian Lewis, whose red hair signifies unruly passions and whose tight mouth let’s us know that there is more to him than meets the eye…Lewis had just the right Brit-as-American grumpiness to give the character even more fun flaws than Hugh Laurie brings to Gregory House in ‘House’, and the series has a good chance of worming its way into our lives.”
On the subject of speaking with an American accent, this article says of Damian Lewis “after establishing the accent he wants for a role, he “finds it’s very easy. I just stay in it. I feel confident. I stay in my American accent when I’m surrounded by American people.”

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Aug.
21st,
2007

2007/08/21

This South African article about film-making says of Damian Lewis’s brilliant film Keane “films like Keane side-step pyrotechnics and instead give us life.” Visit the Shop page for links to purchase the Keane DVD in several geographic regions.
Damian Lewis fans strongly agree with the conclusions of this blogger who predicts that Damian’s new NBC show Life “looks like a winner” and is “not to be missed”!
MetroActive’s review of Becoming Jane (co-starring Helen McCrory as author Mrs. Radcliffe) says “McCrory has a subtle air of distraction, as if a lady in the dubious business of writing for a living always needed to be looking over her shoulder.”

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Aug.
17th,
2007

2007/08/17

Best wishes for a very Happy Birthday to Ms. Helen McCrory!
Life starring Damian Lewis will preview on US cable television starting September 10th. Variety reports that US television network NBC has negotiated agreements with cable, satellite, and dish networks to preview their new fall shows in advance of the network premiere:

“NBC has engineered a breakthrough deal to get its fall pilots previewed on virtually every major cable and satellite system in the country.

“The complete pilots for all four of the net’s newcomers — “Chuck,” “Bionic Woman,” “Journeyman” and “Life” — will be available as free video-on-demand offerings via Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox and other major cable operators. Dish network also will make the shows available to its satellite subscribers, while DirecTV will offer its own version of the NBC preview…

…Episodes of the frosh four will be available for about two weeks, starting Sept. 10 and leading up to NBC’s premiere week. In addition, most cable operators will also give subscribers access to a 30-minute NBC fall preview special … and making-of featurettes for “Bionic Woman” and “Life.”
Starting this Sunday the TV Guide Channel will begin broadcasting their 2007 Fall First Look with coverage of the Television Critics Association summer event including a preview of new fall shows such as Life starring Damian Lewis.