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New Metro.co.uk Interview

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  • Metro.co.uk has a pretty picture to go along with their new interview with Damian Lewis:

    He’s just got back from two years in the US filming NBC show Life, in which he played a policeman newly released from prison after serving 12 years for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s the latest British actor to make it big in America but he found the experience culturally dislocating.

    ‘I enjoyed it enormously but it was never my intention to be an LA TV actor jumping from one show to the next. It’s a luxurious living but it’s also rather deadening.’

    And so he and his family (he has two small children with the actress Helen McCrory) swapped sunshine for the rain and now Lewis is about to appear in an updated Martin Crimp version (opposite Knightley) of Molière’s 17th-century satire The Misanthrope.

    ‘I just called up a bunch of people and asked whether anyone wanted to do a play with me,’ he says, which sounds both sweet and staggering.

    Is that really how actors get work? He laughs awkwardly.

    ‘No no, not really. But you have to seek variety, particularly if you want to do theatre, which is the thing that drives me and which is somehow lacking when I’m doing these other things.’

    Read the rest of the interview here.

  • Click here at the livejournal apple grass icons for a gorgeous and detailed picspam of Charlie’s various outfits, minus tie, in Life. 💡
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Damian Lewis gives up Life to make Knightley appearances, Metro.co.uk, December 14, 2009

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Damian Lewis gives up Life to make Knightley appearances

by Claire Allfree, Metro, December 14, 2009 

He’s swapped cracking the United States to star with
Keira Knightley in her West End debut, but that’s Life for actor
Damian Lewis.

Continue reading Damian Lewis gives up Life to make Knightley appearances, Metro.co.uk, December 14, 2009

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  • Gallery updates: Thank to Kaz for uploading scans from The Sunday Times Magazine (Dec 13th).

    Click here for a scan from The Times Playlist (Dec 5th). The Playlist interview with Damian Lewis has this cute anecdote:

    In terms of learning the lines, the rhymes are a blessing and a curse. Can you improvise a rhyme if you lose your way? Actually my first job was a Moliere, School for Wives, with Ian McDiarmid. I dried twice. The words had gone, so I had to bluff my way, just making sure I rhymed the end of each line. I’ll never forget the sight if Ian, so hot in his costume that steam was coming off his face, convulsing when he realised what I was doing.

  • More positive fan reaction from the blogs: The Burden of Dreams, Life in the Cheap Seats, and West End Whingers.

  • Click here to listen online to “Immortality at Last”, the last episode of Number 10, the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play with Damian Lewis as Simon Laity. Download it in mp3 format here from our Multimedia section. (Thanks again to Kaz!) Damian appears in all but episode no. 2.

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  • Click here at the gallery for large new stills of Damian Lewis performing on stage in The Misanthrope! Rather handsome-looking, isn’t he? 💡

  • Click here and here for ecstatic reviews from fans at the Yahoo! Group who’ve gone to see previews this week. Thanks to citygirl and june for sharing!

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  • So, yeah, previews for The Misanthrope started on Saturday. ➡ Click here and here at the gallery for pictures of Damian Lewis leaving The Comedy Theatre Monday and Tuesday night after a performance of The Misanthrope.


  • Click here at the The Misanthrope album in the gallery for slightley larger rehearsal stills including the new one above.

  • More Misanthrope press: click here for a writeup from Broadway World; Director Thea Sharrock discusses The Misanthrope and Keira Knightley with the Telegraph.

  • Click here to listen online to episode 4 of Number 10, “A Failed State”, the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play starring Damian Lewis as Simon Laity. You can download this episode in mp3 format here from our Multimedia section. (Thanks, Kaz! 🙂 ) Damian appears in all but episode 2. Episode 5, “Immortality at Last”, airs this Friday.

  • Click here to read the NIFF‘s write-up on The Baker from their film festival guide.

  • TV highlights this month include a few rare showings:

    • » A US broadcast of Robinson Crusoe at 9:50am on Starz Cinema on Dec 21st. He’s only in the film’s opening minutes. 😀

    • » UK broadcasts of Poirot: Hickory Dickory Dock at 5:45pm on the 22nd and 11:40am on the 23rd on ITV3.

    • » A UK broadcast of Keane at 10:50pm on Sky Arts 1 on Dec 29th.

    Click here for the updated schedule.

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  • 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.

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    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.

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Damian Lewis Interview for The Misanthrope, The Telegraph, November 24, 2009

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Damian Lewis Interview for The Misanthrope

By Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, November 24, 2009

Damian Lewis talks about appearing with Keira Knightley as she makes her West End debut in an updated version of Moliere’s The Misanthrope.

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Damian Lewis could well be the luckiest actor in London. Or the unluckiest. Luckiest in that he’s about to play the lead in The Misanthrope, which – with tickets flying out of the box-office at record-breaking speed – must be accounted one of the most eagerly awaited West End openings of the year. Unluckiest because the main reason for all the mounting hullabaloo is his co-star – Keira Knightley.

While there’s no disputing the combined allure of the assembled cast – Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan are also names to conjure with – when it comes to added spice, Knightley’s promised theatrical debut is eye-wateringly hot stuff. The prospect of a live encounter with the ravishing Pirates of the Caribbean star, recently ranked the second highest paid actress in Hollywood, has tipped the internet exchange price for tickets into triple figures. We’re potentially in the same realm of hysteria as that which enveloped Jude Law’s Hamlet, when fans queued through the night for a chance to bag a day-seat.

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?

Read the rest of the article here.

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  • Thanks to mmbbpp for sharing this link to Ambassador’s fantastic new web site for The Misanthrope starring Damian Lewis! Click here to order tickets for the play that will preview at London’s Comedy Theatre starting December 5, 2009. ➡

    The site includes a short video of Damian along with rehearsal photos and information about the show and the cast. Visit the Warehouse to view screencaps from the site.

    Interested in getting together with other fans to see the play? Click here at the Yahoo! Group for more information.

  • An American Film Market report from Screen Daily states that the long-anticipated Raul Ruiz film Love and Virtue has at last found a market and that Damian Lewis is still attached to play the romantic hero Orlando (Roland) in the historical epic! The movie is expected to go into production next summer. Click here for more information about the film.

  • Click here for an opportunity to help the environment and for a chance to win a handbag created from Damian’s jacket! Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory both donated jackets to be restyled and raffled, along with other celebrity items, in support of the TRAID and Camden Council workshop on revamping clothes to reduce the textile wastes sent to landfills. Damian’s jacket was recreated as a handbag and Helen’s red velvet jacket was restyled in military fashion.

  • Speaking of textiles, click on the links below for some “Life – Charlie Crews T-Shirts” (vests) being offered for sale: l 1 l 2 l 3 l

  • Thanks to Connie for sharing the news that Damian will appear on US television in Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker on HBOe on Wednesday, Nov 25th at 7:00 AM and on Sunday, Nov 29th at 6:00 AM.

    Spike TV will also run a Band of Brothers marathon over the Thanksgiving holiday on November 26th and 27th (and that’s a great reason for giving thanks!) 😉

  • Noomi65 has posted a lovely, new Damian Lewis fan video on YouTube.

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  • Newly discovered photos taken by Donald Cooper of Damian Lewis in Pillars of the Community (2005-06), Five Gold Rings (with Helen McCrory, 2003-04), Cymbeline (1997-98), and Much Ado About Nothing (1996) have been added to the Warehouse.

  • Thanks to Groov Monkey for the news that the Region 4 DVD for season 2 of Life starring Damian Lewis will be released in Australia on November 11, 2009.

  • Click here for more information about the Camden Council and TRAID “Wardrobe Re-Vamping Workshops” on November 12th. The event will demonstrate methods of re-making used clothing to reduce textile wastes in landfills. Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory have both donated jackets to be restyled for the event.

  • Click here and here for the Radio Times listings for the November 13th and 20th episodes of Number 10 the “Afternoon Play” starring Damian Lewis.

  • What’s On Stage has published updated casting information for The Misanthrope:

    The full company has been announced for Thea Sharrock’s new production of The Misanthrope, which is led by Damian Lewis and, making her stage debut, Keira Knightley, and which runs from 17 December 2009 (previews from 7 December) to 13 March 2010 at the Comedy Theatre.

    In addition to Lewis, Knightley and, as previously announced, Tara Fitzgerald, Dominic Rowan and Tim McMullan, the ensemble cast will feature Chuk Iwuji (The Histories for the RSC), Kelly Price (best known for musicals including A Little Night Music and Guys and Dolls) and Nicholas Le Prevost (whose most recent credits include Bedroom Farce, The Last Cigarette and The Philadelphia Story)…The Misanthrope is designed by Hildegard Bechtler and produced by Howard Panter and Tali Pelman for the Ambassador Theatre Group.