Damian-Lewis.com » 2009

Nov.
28th,
2009

Jasper Rees of the Times Online has published a new interview with Damian Lewis, Keira Knightley, Tara Fitzgerald, and director Thea Sharrock for The Misanthrope. Damian’s comments about returning to the stage include:

I think it makes you a much better actor when you come back. It makes you more detailed and less generally wanting to present yourself out front… In film, you don’t have to think about anybody. You learn your lines, you come up with your idea for your part on your own; you might get a day’s rehearsal, you might get one minute’s rehearsal. On stage, the wonderful paradox is, it’s massively empowering while at the same time utterly exposing. You never have that fear on camera. You can do it again.

Click here at The Misanthrope‘s official site to order tickets. Previews begin at London’s Comedy Theatre on December 5, 2009! Interested in getting together with other fans to see the play? Click here at the Yahoo! Group for more information.
Click here for a new Damian Lewis fan video by 123CeeGee. The background music is Damian Lewis as Simon Fuller singing Hello Dolly’s “Just Leave Everything to Me” in Posh and Beck’s Big Impression. Click here to see the actual scene from this 2004 BBC comedy spoof.
Thanks to jellybean for sharing the news that Australia’s Seven network has recently been re-broadcasting the Band of Brothers mini-series starring Damian Lewis.

Posted by: kathyv Filed Under: Interviews, News, The Misanthrope, Theatre

Nov.
27th,
2009

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Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory were at the 2009 Mind Mental Health Media Awards on Tuesday. Click here at the gallery for a picture of them at the Awards show and here to read more about the event.

Click here to listen online to “The Visigoths Are Coming” episode 3 of the current season of Number 10, the BBC Radio 4 “Afternoon Play” now starring Damian Lewis as Simon Laity. Thanks to Kaz you can also download this episode in mp3 format here from our Multimedia section! Damian appears in this episode and the last two, “A Failed State” and “Immortality at Last.”

Posted by: mokulen Filed Under: Download, Events, Gallery, Radio

Nov.
24th,
2009

Damian Lewis discusses The Misanthrope and working with Keira Knightley in a new interview with the Telegraph:

Knightley’s promised theatrical debut is eye-wateringly hot stuff. … If the flame-haired Lewis, 38, feels any anxiety or concern about the fact that Knightley looks set to be the centre of much frenzied attention in the coming weeks, he’s not confessing to it when we meet. His last stage appearance, as the inwardly tortured businessman Karsten Bernick in Ibsen’s Pillars of the Community earned him rave reviews at the National in 2005. The part of the people-hating Alceste – the biliously witty anti-hero reconceived as a hip playwright in Martin Crimp’s smart update of Moliere’s 1666 classic comedy – should cement his reputation as one of theatre’s finest talents. But will he get his chance to capitalise on the opportunity?

As he calmly downs a pint of Guinness in the pub next door to the show’s Bloomsbury rehearsal rooms, Lewis radiates only relaxed enthusiasm for the project, which he had a hand in getting off the ground and which will mark his own West End debut. When Keira came on board, then, of course it became an ‘event’,’ he says. And pauses. ‘I can only say that I think it’s fun to be part of these things.’

Click here for the interview.

Click here at The Misanthrope‘s official site to order tickets. Previews begin at London’s Comedy Theatre on December 5, 2009! Interested in getting together with other fans to see the play? Click here at the Yahoo! Group for more information.

Posted by: mokulen Filed Under: Interviews, News, The Misanthrope, Theatre

Nov.
23rd,
2009

Collider.com has an interview with Danny McBride, star of Your Highness in which Damian Lewis will play “the head of a dastardly pack of knights”. According to McBride the film will be released late next year year – Oct 1st – so that it can be first screen at places like Comic-Con in July. Also according to McBride, it’s not a “a medieval stoner comedy”; instead they “wanted to make an 80’s fantasy film … No jokes are had from cod pieces or anything like that” … they “wanted the world to be real and the comedy just comes from the people that happen to be in this world and really shouldn’t be.”

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Click below for updates at the gallery:
July 26 – Cartier International Polo Day 2009
Sept 19 – The Prostate Cancer Charity London Ride
Oct 12 – West London Audi Opening Party

Posted by: mokulen Filed Under: Gallery, Your Highness

Nov.
20th,
2009

New photos of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory taken at the October 15, 2009 gala screening of Men Who Stare at Goats have been added to the Warehouse.

Cover art is now available for the Region 1 (US and Canada) DVD of The Escapist with Damian Lewis. The DVD is currently available for rent from Blockbuster and will be released for sale on January 26, 2010. DVD Planet is offering the film at the discounted price of $14.16 (US).
Click here to listen online to “And Drugs Won” episode 2 of season 3 of Number 10, the BBC Radio 4 “Afternoon Play” featuring Damian Lewis as the newly-elected Prime Minister, Simon Laity. You can also download this episode in mp3 format from the Multimedia page thanks to Kaz! (Note: Damian does not appear in this episode of the 5-part series.)