Welcome to Damian-Lewis.com, a website dedicated to British actor Damian Lewis known for his roles in Band of Brothers, Keane, Life, and the upcoming Showtime series Homeland. Here you'll find the latest news, photos, media, and more, so please have a look around and enjoy the site's content. If you have any comments, suggestions, or donations, please contact us!
Nov.
20th,
2008
Life co-stars Damian Lewis and Donal Logue will join other celebrities in a charity football (soccer) match on Saturday, November 22nd! Damian and Donal play for the Hollywood United team and they will be facing “Champions United” to raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike; click here and here for more information.
Damian Lewis is featured in TV Guide’s 2008 Hot List! “30 smokin’ reasons to love TV!”
Click here to view the scans in the Photo Gallery Warehouse.
Spoilers! Damian Lewis and Life co-star Donal Logue gave a terrific new interview to Troy Rogers of The Deadbolt.
Television Without Pity also has an interview with the two actors.
US fans are reminded to watch Life episode 2.09 titled “Badge Bunny” on NBC tomorrow night at 9 pm ET.
More spoilers! Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online offers this Spoiler Chat tidbit about Life:
Julie in Slidell, La.: Is it just me, or is Life better than ever this year? What’s coming down the pike?
It’s not just you. Among other things, Reese’s silent glares/stares at Crews are flat brilliant. Anyway, in an upcoming episode we learn more about Crews’ time in prison through a couple of his friends who are still there, including a behemoth of a man who agrees to look out for a second friend who is being harassed by crack addicts.
Still more spoilers! Click here to read the casting call for “Mirror Ball” episode 2.14 of Life; source: SpoilerTV.
Thanks to Ann for sharing this NBC press release with great news about the aggregate ratings for Life:
Through the season’s first six weeks, “Life” has been adding an average 25 percent to its 18-49 rating when going from “live plus same day” to “live plus seven day” results. This 25 percent increase is the second-biggest increase in percentage terms for any primetime series on the broadcast networks. In total viewers, “Life” has been adding an average 857,000 viewers to its previously reported “live plus same day” numbers when “live plus seven day” viewing is counted (to 6.4 million from 5.5 million)…”
New Charlie Crews music videos are available on YouTube from metalcrip89 and Jolaniafi.
More release date delays for the The Escapist featuring Damian Lewis.
The Hoyts.com site no longer lists November 20th as the theatrical release date for The Escapist in Australia.
IMDb now shows April 16th (rather than February 5th) as the date for the film’s release in The Netherlands. No information is given about the Belgian release date which had previously been listed as January 21st.
So far The Escapist is still scheduled for release on region 2 DVD on January 5th in the UK.
Click here and here for excellent reviews for the new Blu-ray DVD for Band of Brothers.
In The Deadbolt interview mentioned above, Damian Lewis had this to say about the long-term affects of starring in Band of Brothers:
“Yes, I’m still convincing people I didn’t win the second World War. It can be quite overwhelming. But I mean, yes, what a privilege to have been involved in telling that story. I’ve said before I was slow to realize the enormity of the [scope] and the importance of the project and of the story and the task in hand to represent those guys well and responsibly.
“So having committed to it like that with thirty other guys, we kind of developed our own band of brothers. And those guys are good friends and we got married together and had children together over the last seven, eight years and we all hang out together.
Thanks to Leah for sharing this Telegraph interview with actor Ioan Gruffudd that mentions Ioan’s friends Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis. Ioan and Damian co-starred in Warriors, The Forsyte Saga, and Essential Poems To Fall In Love With.
This morning’s National Public Radio broadcast featured a story on “Foreigners Playing Americans” in US television shows. Reporter Kim Masters spoke about Hugh Laurie and other non-Americans in popular US shows and then interviewed Damian Lewis about his role as Detective Charlie Crews on Life. Executive producers Rand Ravich and Far Shariat were also interviewed and Ravich talked about Damian’s ability to play both comedy and drama, describing him as “a cross between Stan Laurel and Steve McQueen!”
Click here to listen to the story online or click here to download in mp3 format.
Kim Masters published a related article as a companion piece to the story about her interview with Damian Lewis. She said that Damian was “polite and charming” and that “he has a nice smile!”
Today’s edition of NBC Studio Pass, the email newsletter, encouraged fans to participate in a Life Viewing Party, an opportunity to simulataneously view episodes online while chatting with others.
Sarah Shahi, Damian’s co-star on Life, will make a guest appearance on the CBS Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson tomorrow night at 12:35 am (ET), 11:35 pm (CT).
Ellen Gray, TV critic for the Philadelphia Daily News made this comment about a recent episode of Life:
“With more and more shows looking like car commercials … I’m really enjoying NBC’s “Life,” where Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) last week continued to drive around in the Maserati he and partner Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) were forced to shoot full of holes in an earlier episode. If that’s product placement, it’s at least amusing product placement.”
Thanks to Sarah for the news that Hong Kong’s Channel 3 (the Pearl network) will begin broadcasting season 1 of Life on Monday, November 24th at 10:35 pm.
Sarah also said that the network is strongly advertising the new show and running many promotional ads.
If you had problems accessing the recent Los Angeles Times article about Life starring Damian Lewis; click here for the text and here for the photos.
Thanks to Jen for sharing scans of recent reviews from the Sidney Morning Herald for Friends & Crocodiles, Brides, and Life starring Damian Lewis.
Episodes 2.01, 2.02, and 2.03 of Life are no longer available for online viewing at Hulu.com and NBC.com, but all of the episodes are available with Spanish subtitles here.
Thanks to Dotty for sharing this scan of a terrific new interview with Damian Lewis that is currently featured in Radio Times magazine.
Visit the Photo Warehouse Gallery to enjoy new screencaps of “Black Friday” (Life episode 2.08 which aired last Wednesday.) Thanks again to Dryope for the gorgeous screencaps!
The video promo for Life episode 2.09 titled “Badge Bunny” has been posted on YouTube by TubedOutNow2. The episode will air in the US next Wednesday, November 19th at 9 pm ET on NBC.
Maria Elena Fernandez of the Los Angeles times wrote this great new article about Life that includes this comment from Damian Lewis:
“I enjoy Crews’ contradictions,” said Lewis, during a scene break underneath the 6th Street bridge in downtown L.A. for an episode that will air Wednesday. “I enjoy the blend of dark and light and the possibilities that are presented to you when you’re able to write a character with a totally blank canvas.”
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