Tag: Nicholas Brody
Damian Lewis Examines Homeland Season 3, AssignmentX, November 10, 2013
Interview: Damian Lewis examines HOMELAND Season 3
The actor talks about how he views Brody – and what HOMELAND has in common with Shakespeare
By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Contributing Writer
Posted: November 10th, 2013 / 10:34 AM
Damian Lewis in HOMELAND – Season 3 | ©2013 Showtime/Kent Smith
British actor Damian Lewis won an Emmy for his first season as prisoner-of-war-turned-terrorist/Congressional candidate Nicholas Brody in Showtime’s CIA thriller HOMELAND, which airs Sundays at 9 PM. Lewis was nominated again for his second year on HOMELAND, when Congressman Brody is proved to be a terrorist by CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes, who won Emmys for both seasons), then is turned into a double agent by the CIA, then resumes his affair with the very conflicted Carrie, then is apparently framed for blowing up the CIA and ends the second season on the run.
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Damian Lewis talks to Cinema-Magazin, November 1, 2013
Damian Lewis meets Duchess of Cornwall at The Harvest Festival, October 16, 2013
Damian Lewis Reveals Some of the Secrets of ‘Homeland’, WSJ, Speakeasy, October 14, 2013
Damian Lewis Reveals Some of the Secrets of ‘Homeland’
by John Jurgensen, Speakeasy, WSJ, October 14, 2013
Damian Lewis as Nicholas “Nick” Brody in “Homeland.”After being absent from the first two episodes of this season’s “Homeland,” Damian Lewis‘s character Nicholas Brody anchored Sunday’s installment, titled “Tower of David.” In a telephone interview, Lewis discussed the strange setting of the episode, the clues it offers to the broader story, and the sorry state of his character, who spends most of the episode in wrenching physical and mental pain.
The fugitive Brody arrives in Venezuela, bleeding from a bullet wound he somehow suffered along the way. He finds himself in a high-rise slum in Caracas, known as the Tower of David after the financier David Brillembourg who originally funded the incomplete skyscraper that was eventually populated by squatters. A gang who lords over the community–and who has a mysterious link to Carrie Mathison–saves Brody’s life but also holds him prisoner. Meanwhile, Carrie is trapped in a limbo of her own in a mental hospital thousands of miles away.
Where was this episode shot?
We were in Puerto Rico. Amazingly, the building was found by a producer who just typed into Google “abandoned building in San Juan,” and this thing came up that looks not dissimilar to the Tower of David in Caracas. We found a shorter version of it, and special effects took care of the rest. Everything you see in it was dressed by the art department and made to look like a functioning slum run by gangs.
Continue reading Damian Lewis Reveals Some of the Secrets of ‘Homeland’, WSJ, Speakeasy, October 14, 2013
Damian Lewis on Brody’s Life as a Fugitive, AV Club, October 14, 2013
Damian Lewis on Brody’s Life as a Fugitive
by Sonia Saraiya, AV Club, October 14, 2013
The biggest question of Homeland’s third season has been: What about Brody? It seemed like the show had written itself into an impossible situation, porting its main character to fugitive status in the hinterlands of the modern world, while the rest of its characters meandered on in Langley. Homeland has given itself a staggering task in trying to knit together the stories of its star-crossed lovers, Carrie and Brody, while keeping the taut psychological tension of the show running smoothly. Showcasing the Emmy-winning performance of Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody can’t hurt. Last night’s episode, “Tower Of David,”finally brought Lewis back to Homeland, showing us a beleaguered character. He is essentially a prisoner of a Venezuelan gang, and in the episode’s final moments, we see him turning to heroin as a means of escape. Brody’s alive, but in dire straits; as far as dark episodes go, it’s one of the darkest. We spoke to Damian Lewis about Brody’s dark night of the soul, as well as how victimhood and redemption are going to play out for his character.
Continue reading Damian Lewis on Brody’s Life as a Fugitive, AV Club, October 14, 2013
Homeland’s Damian Lewis on ‘Tower of David’ and Brody’s Very Bleak Future, Vulture, October 13, 2013
Homeland’s Damian Lewis on ‘Tower of David’ and Brody’s Very Bleak Future
‘Homeland’ star Damian Lewis on Brody’s return, Uproxx October 13, 2013
‘Homeland’ star Damian Lewis on Brody’s return
As you were coming to the end of season 2 and Brody was about to become the world’s most wanted fugitive, what sorts of conversations did you have with the producers about what your role on the show would be going forward?
Continue reading ‘Homeland’ star Damian Lewis on Brody’s return, Uproxx October 13, 2013
‘Homeland’: Damian Lewis Talks Brody’s Return, Rock Bottom and TV Fatherhood, Hollywood Reporter, October 13, 2013
‘Homeland’: Damian Lewis Talks Brody’s Return, Rock Bottom and TV Fatherhood
Damian Lewis: “The Homeland Writers are Desperate to kill Brody”, The Guardian, October 12, 2013
Damian Lewis: ‘The Homeland writers are desperate to kill Brody’
Damian Lewis: Man of Style, In Style, October 2013
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Damian Lewis Interview: Eton, Homeland And Obama – Esquire, September 28, 2013
Jay Z, Daft Punk, and Obama
by Johnny Davis | Esquire | September 28, 2013