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Now Out on DVD/Blu-ray: Queen of the Desert Featuring a Familiar ‘Ginger Prince’ – Sept 26, 2017

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Now Out on DVD/Blu-ray: Queen of the Desert Featuring a Familiar ‘Ginger Prince’

Source: Queen of the Desert film

Queen and Prince.  See what I did there?

If you missed Queen of the Desert during its limited run in movie theaters, featuring a familiar ‘Ginger Prince’ we all know and adore, you can now own it on DVD and Blu-ray beginning September 26, 2017.  You can purchase it from Amazon, Best Buy and other online sources. It has been available for streaming since April 14, 2017 from both Amazon Video and iTunes.

The Ginger Prince and Queen – Source: Queen of the Desert film

Originally released in 2015, Queen of the Desert is a biopic chronicling the adventures of the pioneer Gertrude Bell, played by Nicole Kidman, who was an influential diplomat and intelligence agent serving the United Kingdom in the Middle East. Our main man Damian Lewis plays Bell’s paramour, Lt. Col. Charles Doughty-Wylie.

Nicole Kidman and Damian Lewis – Source: Queen of the Desert film

 

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Blue Blood, Blue Collar: Damian Lewis’ Transformations, The New Yorker, January 18, 2016

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The actor probes his characters, but his method isn’t Method. “I’m Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.”

by Lauren Collins | The New Yorker | January 18, 2016

 Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker

At a corner table in the dining room of Marea, a restaurant on Central Park South, the conversation was smooth but disputatious. Three men in suits were drinking red wine and eating pasta that cost thirty-four dollars a serving. One of them was a hedge-fund manager, a famous short seller. Another was the financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. The third man, in from London, was the actor Damian Lewis.

Sorkin had made the introduction. The hedge-fund manager and Lewis were doing most of the talking. “Does your business have a societal benefit?” Lewis asked. He wanted to know what made a hedge-fund manager more than “a paper shuffler.”

The hedge-fund manager said that he and his peers basically function as market-based regulators—that they have a financial incentive to expose wrongdoing. Sorkin had set up other audiences for Lewis with financial machers. One of them urged Lewis to consider an underperforming company with entrenched management or a sclerotic board: an activist investor, even if he came in and cut things and fired people—well, that’s capitalism.

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Damian Visits Newcastle University Library to Research New Role – Jan 16, 2014

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Researching Charles Doughty-Wylie for Queen of the Desert

by Kerry Wood | Chronicle Live | January 16, 2014

Source: Chronicle Live – Damian with Geraldine Hunwick

It was a far cry from the set of smash hit drama Homeland for actor Damian Lewis when he popped into a Tyneside library. The English actor, known to millions of viewers as Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody, visited the city this week to delve into Newcastle University’s Robinson Library archives on Washington-born explorer Gertrude Bell.

Having previously starred in Band of Brothers, since 2011 he’s been playing Brody, a turned prisoner-of-war in the American hit show.

Seen here with library archivist Geraldine Hunwick, the actor was researching his new role as Charles Doughty-Wylie in the new film Queen of the Desert.

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