News and Updates

Saturday, 25 August 2007

This blogger’s comments (below) about Damian’s new NBC drama Life has rekindled the debate about a possible resemblance between Steve McQueen and Damian Lewis; what’s your opinion?

Whether or not you see a resemblance there’s no denying that the above images are of two very attractive and talented men!

Damian Lewis “…stars as a cop who was wrongly sentenced to life in prison for a triple murder. After twelve years he’s released, given millions of dollars, and goes about setting his life back in order. One of the things that has me really excited for this show is seeing Damian Lewis smile and get to have fun… I was really blown away by his performance in Band of Brothers…there’s some Steve McQueen quality about Damian that I really like. He’s cool in a timeless way.
Thanks to Jen for posting news about upcoming Australian broadcasts of Damian Lewis’s work including: Much Ado About Nothing, Brides, and An Unfinished Life. Check the Schedule for more information about Damian Lewis performances and contact Selene to share news about Damian events in your region.

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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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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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