Tag: Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis Interview, The Telegraph, April 18, 2011
Damian Lewis interview
The ex-Etonian talks schooldays, silly movies and choosing his own career
Damian Lewis on ITV’s Daybreak – April 12, 2011
Damian Lewis on ITV’s Daybreak, April 12, 2011
Damian Lewis Reads at Oxford Literary Festival – April 7, 2011
Damian Lewis reads at Oxford Literary Festival, April 7, 2011
Born to Learn Voice Work – March 14, 2011
Animation Narration
by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | March 14, 2011
Damian has provided the narration for a series of animations on the nature of human learning. Born to Learn, based on the book Overschooled but Undereducated, is the first animation in a fun, thought-provoking series aimed to provide easy-access and illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. The series exposes the current flaws in our educational system and highlights better ways by which children can learn.
This second video in the Born to Learn series, Class Reunion, unpacks very neatly the significance of Confucius’s explanation that essentially it is only when you take the responsibility of having to do something for yourself that you really start to learn.
Damian Hosts ‘Have I Got News For You’ – Nov 18, 2010
With Clive Anderson and Kevin Bridges
by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | November 18, 2010
Scene & Heard Charity Event – October, 2010
Damian and Helen Onstage for Children’s Charity
by Stephen Einhorn Blog | October, 2010
At the beginning of October, the children’s charity Scene & Heard played host to a star studded event held at the 20th Century Theatre in Notting Hill. The evening included champagne, canapés, the performance of plays written by Scene & Heard’s child playwrights, and an auction.
Famous faces included patrons Damian Lewis (the host), Helen McCrory, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tom Goodman- Hill, Twiggy Lawson and Jonathon Pryce.
Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals. They give children intensive, one-to-one adult attention, enabling them to write plays which are then performed by professional actors. For many years, this vibrant charity has created astonishing and extraordinary theatre.
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Sicily for Bambini: A Family Holiday with Damian and Helen – Aug 1, 2010
Playtime, Pampering and Pasta
by Helen McCrory | British Airways Highlife | August 1, 2010
Actors Helen McCrory and husband Damian Lewis plus their two children head to Sicily for playtime, pampering and pasta.
‘Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, that’s a wrap!’ It’s 1am and I’m standing in a disused industrial park in London in the rain. We’ve been filming the same ten lines for hours now and even the writer has fallen out of love with the scene. But who cares. In 12 hours, I shall be sitting by the pool in Rocco Forte’s Sicilian Verdura Golf & Spa Resort for a week of pampering, peace, pasta and a bit of good old-fashioned shuteye.
My husband Damian and I both know Italy well, but I have never visited Sicily. Damian went there some years ago with a mate on an Edwardian-style grand tour, when he’d quickly learnt the all-important phrase ‘Posso avere una camera con due letti, per favore’ — which translates as ‘a single room with two separate beds, please’ — after they had been presented with a luxurious double bed on their first night. But they stayed in the northern part of the island and Verdura is on the southwest coast between Sciacca, a fishing port, and Agrigento, home to some of the best-preserved Greek temples in the world. The resort also has a children’s crèche, and we have a three-year-old, Manon, and a two-year-old, Gulliver, with energy levels that would put even the Sicilians’ famous love of children to the test. It sounds perfect.
We fly to Catania, where we pick up our car to drive across the island east to west. What a way to see Sicily. Spring has definitely sprung as we drive past orange groves, goatherds and vineyards all under a bright blue sky. With the aid of my superb map reading, we arrive three hours later at the resort’s gate, from which you look down over the golf courses onto the spa, the hotel and the sea. We don’t leave the resort for three days. Our suite has its own entrance with steps leading down to a private, secluded courtyard (perfect for drying wet swimming costumes and nude sunbathing), which in turn opens up into a large elegant sitting room overlooking the ocean, a butler’s kitchen and two bedrooms, each with an en-suite bathroom.
Continue reading Sicily for Bambini: A Family Holiday with Damian and Helen – Aug 1, 2010
Fame Becomes Her: The Misanthrope’s Damian Lewis Chats About Co-Star Keira Knightley, Theatre.com, January 6, 2010
Fame Becomes Her: The Misanthrope‘s Damian Lewis Chats About Co-Star Keira Knightley
It’s tempting, but misleading, to think of the new London production of The Misanthrope as “The Keira Knightley Show,” if only because the movies’ popular “it girl” is making her West End debut at the Comedy Theatre with director Thea Sharrock’s production of the 17th-century classic. In fact, Knightley has a supporting role as an American film actress named Jennifer (the play’s Celimene updated to today’s celebrity culture) in this rewrite by Martin Crimp of the Moliere original. But it is leading man Damian Lewis, making his own West End debut, who does the heavy lifting as the misanthropic Alceste, a man who can’t help but calling life’s fakery as he sees it—and who has the dubious luck to fall hard for Jennifer. Broadway.com caught up with Lewis, newly returned to London after several years in L.A. starring on the TV show Life, in the midst of the festive season, where the gifted, ever-articulate Londoner spoke of many things, including his famous co-star.
Soldier, Husband, Daughter, Dad
Damian Narrates BBC1 Documentary
by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | December 27, 2009
BBC1 documentary following 1RHA out to Iraq
Inspired by Music – July 1, 2009
Music Remains a Constant Force of Inspiration in All Our Lives
by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | July 1, 2009
Interview: This Much I Know – April 4, 2009
Carrot Tops and Fishing Turds Out of the Bathtub
by Tony Horkins | The Guardian | April 4, 2009
Damian Lewis, actor, 38, Los Angeles
I’ve got Wikipedia insight. I used to be able to sit at dinner parties and talk at length about a novel, having just read the jacket in a bookshop. Now it’s like I’ve got the jacket and the inside cover as well, but nothing more.
Boarding school gives you precocious social skills for life. You’re separated from your parents and you learn about peer groups and gain confidence. When I was in my 20s people would remark on it, which I now realise was them remarking on your awful precociousness. I’m undecided as to the damage it possibly does to an eight-year-old, especially learning not to cry.
Being with Americans is a bit like hanging out with a teenager. They haven’t quite developed the confidence to have a sense of humour about themselves, which just comes with age. And they also have that forward-thrusting energy a teenager has.
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