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    The photo above shows Damian Lewis in “fancy dress” as a knight in the BBC production of Shakespeare Retold – Much Ado About Nothing. This seems a fitting image because Damian is currently in Northern Ireland filming the role of a “dastardly knight” in Your Highness, the medieval comedy directed by David Gordon Green.

    Here’s some news about Your Highness:

  • Spoilers! Leanne Cari’s preview of Your Highness for Cinema Blend includes this synopsis of the film’s storyline:

    Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general. Danny McBride and James Franco team up for an epic comedy adventure set in a fantastical world- Your Highness. As two princes on a daring mission to save their land, they must rescue the heir apparent’s fiancée before their kingdom is destroyed.

    Thadeous (McBride) has spent his life watching his perfect older brother Fabious (Franco) embark upon valiant journeys and win the hearts of his people. Tired of being passed over for adventure, adoration and the throne, he’s settled for a life of wizard’s weed, hard booze and easy maidens. But when Fabious’ bride-to-be, Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel), gets kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the king gives his deadbeat son an ultimatum: Man up and help rescue her or get cut off.

    Half-assedly embarking upon his first quest, Thadeous joins Fabious to trek across the perilous outlands and free the princess. Joined by Isabel (Natalie Portman)–an elusive warrior with a dangerous agenda of her own–the brothers must vanquish horrific creatures and traitorous knights before they can reach Belladonna. If Thadeous can find his inner hero, he can help his brother prevent the destruction of his land. Stay a slacker, and not only does he die a coward, he gets front row seats to the dawn of an all-new Dark Ages.

  • On August 18, 2009, talented musician Dick Glasgow joined 5 other artists to record 4 tracks of traditional Irish music for Your Highness. Click here for a video of Dick Glasgow on the fiddle and John Hughes on uilleann pipes playing “Hand Me Down the Tackle.”

  • This Is Staffordshire is featuring a story about “The Hall Family” – a family of Little People that have been cast in two upcoming films featuring members of “The Lewis Family”!

    Claire Hall and her daughter Caitlin have just returned from Ireland where they acted as villagers for the filming of Your Highness. Ms. Hall and her son Bradley will also appear as extras in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with Helen McCrory as Narcissa Malfoy.

  • This article from the Belfast Telegraph tells the story of a lost (and found!) copy of the script for Your Highness that was mislaid by a forgetful member of the film’s crew.

  • British actor John Fricker has joined the cast of Your Highness.

  • Irish actor Emmett J. Scanlon has posted his screen test for Your Highness on YouTube.

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  • Click above to watch “Monkey Baby” a new Life music video by moddyxxx.

  • Studio-NI reports that extras are still being called for Your Highness with Damian Lewis, currently filming in Northern Ireland:

    The good news is that a large number of the cast and crew are Studio NI members.
    Don’t worry if you haven’t gotten the call yet – new people are being recruited all the time, and there are still a few weeks to go…The bad news: everyone employed must sign a contract with a small-print confidentiality clause. Thus, the buzz that can raise morale in the local film industry (and make or break a film) is being killed.

    Click here for information about the “types” of extras being recruited for the film.

  • Click here to enjoy Damian Lewis trivia and quotes on MovieTome.

  • MaryMary’s blog about Damian Lewis is an enjoyable read! 😀

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  • Click above to view a video promo for the Band of Brothers marathon on Spike TV that will begin on Saturday, September 5th at 7pm and continue throughout the US Labor Day holiday weekend.

  • Other upcoming Damian Lewis broadcasts on US television include:

    » An Unfinished Life on Sunday, September 6th at 11:00am on FX.

    » Damian (as the voice of Agent 00 0) in Disney’s Phineas and Ferb episode titled “Elementary, My Dear Stacy” on DXDP:

    Saturday, August 29th at 8:00am

    Monday, August 31st at 8:00pm
    Tuesday, September 1st at 1:00am

    Available on-demand through September 14th

    » Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker continues on Cinemax throughout September.

  • Upcoming Damian Lewis broadcasts on UK television include:

    » Keane on Sky Arts 1 on Tuesday, September 8th at 10:10pm.

    » Season 2 of Life is ongoing on ITV3; the next episode “Re-Entry” will broadcast on Wednesday, August 26th at 10pm.

    » The Forsyte Saga – Series 2 is repeating on ITV3 and the next episode will air on Thursday, August 27th at 10pm.

    » The documentary Keep on Running, narrated by Damian Lewis, is repeating on BBC4 and will broadcast Friday, August 28th at 10:40pm and Monday, August 31 at 12:00am.

    Click here at the site for the updated tv schedule.

  • The region 1 (US and Canada) DVD for Life – Season 2 was released today and a few lucky Damian Lewis fans have already received their copies! ➡

    The region 2 DVD (UK, EU, SoAfrica, MidEast, Egypt, and Japan) will be released on December 28, 2009 and is now available for preorder.

    Click here for a review of the Life – Season 2 DVD from the Salt Lake City Examiner.com.

  • News about Your Highness:

    » It has been announced that Justin Theroux will play the evil Wizard Leezar in the film.

    » This photograph has been circulating on the Web as a possible picture of Natalie Portman on location with the film, but this information has not been confirmed.

    » Spoiler warning! Click here for a (mixed) review of the script for Your Highness.

    » Click here for information about hand-crafted “wizard pipes” that will be used as props in the movie.

  • Thanks to Ann for the link to vote for Life in the final batch of Tubey Awards. The program has been nominated in three categories:

    » Best Drama
    » Broadcast Network Show Most In Need of a Move to a Cable Network
    » Best Smackdown in a Non-Reality Show – Charlie Crews vs. Roman

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  • Damian Lewis will be taking part in the The Prostate Cancer Charity London Ride on September 19th. From the RoadCyclingUK site:

    Lewis is urging people to join him and ride with their heroes as the charity’s new cycling event hits the capital. Lewis said: “I would encourage everyone to take part in the London Ride. The best thing about it is that the roads will be closed and there will not be any cars around. What a brilliant way to see the sights of London; I will be bringing the whole family along to enjoy the carnival atmosphere. Anyone taking on this challenge will also be cycling to show their support for a great cause.

    1,000 places are available on the charity ride; to learn more on how to register, visit Unite ByCycling. More information here.

  • According to Dark Horizons, Your Highness will have an October 1st, 2010 release. Thanks to anke_behnke for the headsup!

  • Click here to view new scans of pictures autographed by Damian Lewis. Thanks to Eowyn for uploading.

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  • The Mail Online is featuring this article about actors Damian Lewis and Dominic West:

    Which old Etonian influenced Damian Lewis?

    Actor Damian Lewis, 38, says a great performance influenced him – Dominic West playing Hamlet at Eton, aged 17.

    West starred in the cult cop show, The Wire, as tipsy, womanising detective Jimmy McNulty.

    After playing Hamlet at Eton – Lewis was a contemporary – his English master said he should consider ‘doing this as a job’.

    At 39, West’s maybe a wee bit mature to play the immature Dane but fiddle de dee, as they say. After Baltimore, Elsinore?

  • News about Your Highness with Damian Lewis, currently shooting in Northern Ireland:

    » A “horse and cart” scene was shot at Shane’s Castle in County Antrim during the last week of July.

    » Scenes are also being shot near Bangor at the Clandeboye Estate.

    » Actress Caroline Grace-Cassidy from Dublin has been cast as the “Handmaiden” in Your Highness.

    » The main set for the film is being constructed at the historic Paint Hall in Belfast. The road outside of the studio has been closed to traffic ever since a tourist snapped the picture below that shows the set under construction.

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  • Author Carrie Lofty uses specific examples from the Band of Brothers mini-series to illustrate this interesting essay about the various forms of address used by males.

  • Lucky White Rabbit has been hired as an Extra in Your Highness. The comedy features Damian Lewis and is currently filming on location in Northern Ireland. Here’s her intriguing description of the role:

    Just got a call from the extras company there. They would like to have me as an extra in James Franco’s movie. Happy days you say? Yes I say.

    Essentially I’m an albino tribeswoman who, along with her tribesy friends, kidnaps the princes and does terrible things to them. I can’t say I’m overly thrilled about wandering around Belfast in an animal skin bikini in the middle of September but I’m sure it’ll be a laugh.

  • The Baker starring Damian Lewis now appears in the schedule for September’s Kansas International Film Festival, date and time information to follow.

  • Click here and here for fan reviews of The Escapist with Damian Lewis.

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  • Click above to view a terrific new music video for Life starring Damian Lewis. The video is by Eve and was posted on YouTube by theanonsisters.



  • Visit the Warehouse for more photos from the recent Cartier International Polo Day including the above picture of Damian and Rupert Penry-Jones. InStyle got it exactly right when they said:

    Handsome Brit actors Damian Lewis and Spook’s Rupert Penry-Jones looked like they might have been auditioning for the part of James Bond as they chatted in the Cartier enclosure.

    Damian and Rupert are also featured in the July 31st edition of the Evening Standard; click here to access the article in the Warehouse.

  • Updates for Your Highness featuring Damian Lewis (visit the Studio-NI Yahoo! Group for more information):

    » Click here and here to read calls for Crew and here for a call for Extras to work on Your Highness.

    » Caution, adult content! This interview at Zoo Today indicates that “glamour model” Madison Welch has joined the cast of Your Highness and will be “playing a temptress alongside Amii Grove and Rhian Sugden”.

    » Click here for a shot of the set under construction and click here to see the filming at Dunluce Castle.

    » This article discusses the recent filming that took place in Larne.

    » The Belfast Telegraph reports that Isla Fisher has taken a role in the film.

    » There’s an unconfirmed report on Twitter that Your Highness will be released in April, 2010 but IMDb still says that the film won’t be released until 2011.

    » Here is the link for the previously posted BBC News report about the production.

  • Vote for Life and Damian in this week’s edition of theTubey Awards in these categories:

    » Best American Accent by a Non-American Actor – Damian Lewis (Life)

    » Best Dream/Hallucination/Vision Sequence – Charlie is hallucinating that he’s back in the prison (Life)

    Thanks to Ann for the head’s up!

  • Don’t forget to vote for Band of Brothers as the best television program of the decade in this Guardian poll.

  • Click here to download (in mp4 format) the recent Today’s Golfer video interview with Damian Lewis (compliments of Ryanne!)

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  • Click above to watch a video interview with Damian Lewis discussing one of his passions – playing golf! 😀

    Damian will be featured in next issue of Today’s Golfer magazine that will be released in the UK on August 13th.

    In the interview Damian talks about taking part in the Northern Rock All Star Cup at the Celtic Manor in Wales in August, 2006. Click here and scroll down to download clips from the event (thanks to Kaz!) and click here to view photos from the charity tournament.

  • Damian Lewis is currently filming Your Highness in Northern Ireland and lucky blogger simonf spotted him today and posted this comment:

    Damian Lewis walked past us this afternoon carrying a Next bag. First proper Hollywood actor I’ve ever seen in Belfast.

    How come that never happens to me?! 😥

  • The Guardian has published a clip from Cartier’s International Polo Day on July 26th and there’s a brief glimpse of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory at 3:59 minutes. Thanks to Ryanne for the link!


  • Click here to access the “Press Kit” for The Escapist including these comments from Damian Lewis about his sinister character Rizza:

    “It’s an important but small role,” admits Damian of his character. “I see Rizza as the evil centre of the prison. He’s a self styled prison boss, he’s running the prison from the inside. He has to control his younger brother who’s a loose cannon.”

    “Rizza is an unusual kind of figure in the prison: the prison and the people inside the prison were his boys and that’s how he wanted it to be. He never wanted his authority challenged; he’d do anything to maintain that status quo. It’s quite an effeminate role and that ties in nicely with the brother. There’s malevolence but effeteness at the same time.”

    Damian especially enjoyed the moral ambiguities of Rizza. “He’s very affectionate about his brother – he’d do anything to protect him but he’s utterly ruthless. You have to be to remain at the top in this setting. He does business daily through violence and intimidation, but I liked the idea that there was something effeminate about him – something preening and self-regarding. He’s a thug but also a weird feminine sophistication.”

  • The Escapist was recently released in Australia and Rialto Distribution and Vertigo Films ran a promotion offering students at the
    University of Technology in Sydney chances to win “25 Double Passes” to see the film. Keep your eyes open for opportunities like this in your area!

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  • Visit the Warehouse for photos of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory attending “Cartier International Polo Day 2009” at the Guards Polo Club on July 26, 2009 in Egham, England.

  • Jonathan Dawson shared this review for the Australian release of The Escapist with Damian Lewis. He described the film as…

    • …one of the great and most convincing prison escapes of them all, the more powerful because of its quietness and the seesawing and jump cut structure that cuts between the planning and the actual dig and final dash for freedom along sewers and subway tunnels.

  • Click here for a review of Benjamin Wallfisch’s musical score for The Escapist that is now available on CD.

  • A blogger named Ruth has posted a photo of the recent filming of Your Highness at Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland.

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  • Click above to view a fan-made “pre-trailer” for Damian Lewis’s new film titled Your Highness that is currently filming on location in Northern Ireland. The video was posted on YouTube by TheTop5ive with this description:

    Pre-trailer. First look at the upcoming movie “Your Highness” starring Danny McBride, star of “Eastbound and Down” and “Pineapple Express.” “Your Highness” pairs McBride up with sexy James Franco and hot Natalie Portman. Your Highness is a stoner comedy in the vein of those 1980s fantasy, swords-and-sorcerors movies. Pack a bowl, put on your ren faire costume and check it out.

  • Click here and here for articles about the July 23rd theatrical release of
    The Escapist in The Netherlands. Thanks to Ryanne for the links and for this quote and translation from NRC Handelsblad:

    Een speciale vermelding verdient Damien Lewis als dreigend-charismatische boevenbaas Rizza.

    Translation:

    Damian Lewis deserves a special mention as the menacing-charismatic prison boss Rizza.

    Personally, I didn’t find Rizza at all charismatic. I thought that he was creepy and scary. 🙁 But Damian Lewis is a great actor! 🙂

  • Click here for an Oxford Times article about photographer Cambridge Jones and his new book Inspired By Music that profiles Damian Lewis and other celebrities. Sales of the book will benefit disadvantaged young people through the Prince’s Trust.

  • The Irish Film and Television Network reports that principal photography has begun in London for Helen McCrory’s new film The Special Relationship and in Northern Ireland on Damian’s current project Your Highness.

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  • Click here for a “Two Minutes With Damian Lewis” Evening Standard interview conducted at the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the blockbuster film that features Helen McCrory in the role of Narcissa Malfoy.

    The interview included questions for Damian Lewis about Your Highness, his latest project that is currently filming on location in Northern Ireland:

    ES: What are you up to at the moment?

    DL: I’m shooting a new film called Your Highness with Natalie Portman and Charles Dance.

    ES: What’s it about?

    DL: It’s a medieval caper about two brothers who go on a quest to rescue a fair maiden. I play the head of a dastardly pack of knights who are chasing them.

    ES: Any plans for the summer?

    DL: I’ve already been on holiday. I’ve just got back from southwest France with my wife Helen (Narcissa Malfoy). We went to Gascony; it was lovely. The spirit of Cyrano was strong — I was having cutlass lessons every day.

    Thanks to Ann for the news and to Idle Hands for the scan! 😀



  • The Region 2 (UK, EU, Japan, MidEast, Egypt, SoAfrica) DVD for Life – Season 2 will be released in the UK on December 28, 2009 and is now available for pre-order.

  • Click here (profanity warning!) and here to read fan comments about Damian Lewis and his outstanding acting talents.

  • Profanity warning! Click here for an audio interview with Danny McBride, co-star and co-creator of Your Highness.

  • This recent NBC Nightly News segment honored the memory of recently deceased Easy Company veteran Shifty Powers.

  • Click here for news about The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the upcoming animated film that will feature the voice talent of Helen McCrory.

  • Click here and here for new Life music videos from backpacker128.

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  • Congressman Holden of Pennsylvania has introduced a new resolution in the U.S. House of
    Representatives to award Major Richard Winters the Medal of Honor. If you’ve seen Damian Lewis’s portrayal of Major Winters in Band of Brothers then you understand why he deserves this recognition. U.S. citizens are asked to contact their Congressional Representatives to request support for H.R. 3121.

    Click here to read the text of H.R. 3121 and click here for letter-writing suggestions. Thanks to Connie and Linda from the MajorDickWinters site for the information!

    Click here to access the above composite image of Damian Lewis and Major Winters that was created by Ryoko.

  • Information posted on IMDb (click on the links below) suggests that Damian Lewis will play the “Evil Wizard Leezar” in his new film titled Your Highness. The production is currently filming on location in Northern Ireland.
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  • According to VideoETA the region 1 (US and Canada) DVD for The Escapist with Damian Lewis is estimated for release in September 2009.

  • Penne Hackforth-Jones’s review of The Escapist includes this comment:

    I loved Damian Lewis in another fantastic variation of himself…the first I have seen since the telly production of ‘Life’. A very loathsome reptile he can be too.

  • Kaz shared this Times Online article titled “Why Brits rule on US TV” that states:

    And why did Damian Lewis (Eton, RSC) win roles in two series of Life?

    So grim is this state of affairs that America’s National Public Radio interrogated the makers of Life, who confessed: “What we found out about English actors is that they’re funny. We had a hard time finding an American tough guy who will be the butt of the joke, whereas Damian has no problem doing it. He’s like half Stan Morrow and half Steve McQueen.” It turns out that slightly imperfect looks and even British bad teeth are more convincing. The Life producers added: “You could argue that in our system, if you’re a young actor who isn’t leading-man handsome, you’re probably not going to get nurtured the way that you would in England, just based on talent.

  • The HeyUGuys site is featuring photos from Cambridge Jones’s new book Inspired By Music including images of Damian Lewis that are available in the Warehouse.

    Damian Lewis is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust; profits from sales of the book will benefit this charitable organization. The volume can be purchased at Starbucks stores in the UK or it may be ordered online from Amazon (UK) and
    Tower Books (US).

  • Thanks to Linda for the news that Flemish channel 2BE will broadcast Stormbreaker with Damian Lewis in Belgium on Saturday July 18, 2009 at 20h40.




  • Click above to enjoy a new Life music video titled “Life – Charlie Crews – Mercy” by 07ransom.

  • Vote for Sarah Shahi, Damian’s Life co-star, in TV.com’s “Brunette vs Brunette” contest. Thanks to Katreniah for the link!