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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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  • New videoclips of Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis at the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

    » Damian appears at approximately 3.15 minutes in this video posted by elizabethtoni.

    » An interview with Helen McCrory begins at around 45 seconds in this Mugglenet.com clip posted by Nmyers89. Helen says that she will begin filming “Harry Potter Part 7” next week.

    » You will see a brief glimpse of Damian and Helen at about 54 seconds into this clip from elizabethtoni.

  • Thanks to netti of Germany for uploading two new pics of Damian and Helen at Tuesday’s premiere to the gallery.

  • This article in the Hollywood Reporter says that Julianne Moore has dropped out of Helen McCrory’s new film The Special Relationship and that Hope Davis will play Hilary Clinton. The movie will begin production in London on July 20th.

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  • Click here at the gallery for more pictures of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory at Tuesday’s world premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ in London.

  • Click here at Youtube for a clip briefly showing Damian and Helen signing autographs at the premiere. It’s about about 35 seconds in. Thanks to Sue for the headsup!

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  • Click here at the gallery for pictures of Damian and Helen at the world premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ in London.

  • New project news! According to the latest message from Damian’s UK associate Melissa: Damian starts
    filming the David Gordon Green-directed Your Highness in Belfast next week! James Franco and Natalie Portman will star in the comedy film that’s described by IMDb as “a fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father’s kingdom.”

    Click on the following for more on the film: 1 l 2
    l 3

    Click here for the site’s Your Highness project page.


  • Thanks to bluegreensmoke for these scans of Damian and Sarah Shahi from the May 2009 issue of Emmy magazine.

  • Click here at the charmingways lj for a fantastic Damian wallpaper and Life icons from nyaza. You can also download the wallpaper here at our
    wallpaper section in our Gallery.

  • The Australian has a good interview with Escapist star Brian Cox here. The Escapist opens in Australia on July 16.

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  • Congratulations to Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory on their second wedding anniversary on July 4th! ➡

  • Helen McCrory is scheduled to attend the July 7th London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (and, who knows, she may bring her husband Damian Lewis with her!) The premiere will start at 6pm BST on July 7th and there will be a live webcast starting at approximately 5pm BST.

    There’s no information at this time indicating whether Helen (and Damian) plan to attend the filim’s New York City premiere on July 9th.

    This review in the Mail Online says:

    What lifts these Harry Potter films, and this one in particular, is the way producer David Heyman and his team have cast top notch British actors. We get double trouble from Helen McCrory and Helena Bonham Carter as wicked siblings Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange, Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, Alan Rickman as Serverus Snape, and Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid. They are
    the best of our great British stock.

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  • Click here for photos of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory attending the Formula One party, in aid of the Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Children’s Charity, on June 17, 2007 at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Click here and here for more information about the event.

  • The Evening Standard reports that Damian was admonished by the stewards while attending a recent Cricket match at Lord’s! 🙁

  • The June 2009 issue of Movie Scope Magazine features an extensive interview with Helen McCrory. A portion of the article is currently available online that includes these comments about Helen:

    Helen McCrory is, without doubt, one of Britain’s most powerful acting talents. Her acting range seems boundless. Helen has a very rare combination of personal qualities that she brings to her acting—she is confident and assertive but also has a huge amount of compassion, which allows her to lace her characters with a sense of vulnerability as well as strength.

    Helen is also cited as an example of Britain’s phenomenal acting talent in this interview with director Robin Sheppard.

  • Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Easy Company veteran Darrell “Shifty” Powers who passed away on June 17, 2009. Thank you to Linda from the MajorDickWinters.com site for sharing the sad news.
  • Alan Sepinwall of the New Jersey Star Ledger has written a new chapter in his Band of Brothers “rewind” series; click here for his comments about “Bastogne”.
  • In the UK, ITV3 will re-run The Forsyte Saga starring Damian Lewis starting June 25th and An Unfinished Life with Damian will broadcast on BBC One on June 28, 2009.

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  • Click here for photos of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory attending the English National Ballet’s season party for “Ballets Russes” at The Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London on June 16, 2009. Click here and here for more information about the ballet.

  • Cover art is now available for Inspired, the new Phil Collins and Cambridge Jones book about musical inspiration. The volume is currently available for pre-order and will feature Cambridge Jones photos of celebrities including Damian Lewis. The book will be released in July to benefit The Prince’s Trust; click here for more information.

  • This blogger says that The Baker starring Damian Lewis was “one of the big hits” of the recent Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck, Michigan.

  • Click here for Alan Sepinwall’s revisit to “Crossroads” episode 5 of Band of Brothers.

  • At E! Online you can vote for Life starring Damian Lewis as the cancelled television show that you will “miss the most” (thanks to nanc1401 for the link!)
  • Assembling one of these “Damian Lewis Jigsaw Puzzles” might be a pleasant way to pass the time!

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  • On Wednesday and Thursday Damian took part in Shooting Stars in Desert Nights Benefit 2009 that aids the Samuel L. Jackson Foundation and the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity. Click here for pictures of Damian hanging outside the hotel and at the dinner at Hakasan Restaurant on Wednesday and here for pictures of Damian taking part in the golf and party activities on Thursday. Thanks to idle.hands for some of the pics!

  • Click here (12.6 MB, AVI) for the 4th poetry reading, Philip Johnstone’s High Wood, from the Newsnight Review program that aired May 29th. You can now download all 4 readings at once here. (Our original download only included 3 of the readings!) Thanks again to Kaz! ➡

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  • Click here to read about the “Shooting Stars in Desert Nights” charity golf-outing and gala ball on June 11th hosted by Samuel L Jackson. The article includes the news that Damian Lewis will be one of the “Team Captains” for the golf tournament.

  • BBC Four will broadcast a documentary this Friday, June 4th titled “Keep on Running: 50 Years of Island Records” about Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. The documentary will be narrated by “Damien Lewis” but it is not clear if that means “Damian Lewis the actor” or “Damien Lewis the drummer”?! Click here for more information about the program.

  • Alan Sepinwall, television critic for the Star Ledger, has launched a series of discussion articles on “Revisiting Band of Brothers”; the Emmy-winning HBO World War II mini-series starring Damian Lewis as Major Richard Winters. Click here for the first article about episode one “Currahee” that includes these comments about Damian’s performance:

    The brilliance of Lewis in this is that he finds a way to make the ordinary aspects of Dick Winters seem extraordinary, rather than trying to play him as an overtly extraordinary man. He’s not a superhero, he doesn’t give rah-rah speeches or lose his temper or in other ways act larger-than-life; he’s just a regular guy who turned out to be ideally suited to irregular circumstances, and Lewis embraces that aspect of the character. Just watch how quietly and simply Lewis plays the scene where Sobel tries to get Winters to accept his assigned punishment rather than face a court-martial. There’s never any doubt that Winters is going to take this all the way if he has to, and yet there aren’t any theatrics about it; he’s just sure of the rightness of his position, and of his ability to prevail over Sobel, and he’s going to see this thing through.

    I especially love the way Lewis plays the scene at the end where Winters helps each of his men to their feet as they get ready to board the plane for their mission over Normandy. This idea that the men were so weighed down by their gear that they had to lie on the tarmac, one on top of the other, and be pulled up — like a kid being helped off the grass by his father — is one of the series’ many “truth is more interesting/moving than fiction” moments, and the serene, paternal look on Lewis’ face is just beautiful. Sobel’s contribution to the success of Easy Company is clearly in question, while Winters’ was not, and a moment like that, and the way the men look back at Winters, makes it clear as to why.