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Bobby Axelrod Merchandise Available in Billions Showtime Store – Feb 19, 2017

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Billions Merchandise Available in the Showtime Store

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | February 19, 2017

How about your very own Bobby Axelrod standee for all your selfies?

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Need an Axe T-Shirt?

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Thirsty?

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Piggy Bank (original is NOT bleeped out)

What’s the point of having f*ck you money, if you never say f*ck you? – Bobby Axelrod

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For the Noggin’

Ornament for the Tree or Rear View Mirror

Cover Your Ass Blanket Throw

Kicks – BillionsxGREATS

Items are subject to availability, as Showtime marketing items vary from season to season. View store here.
For information about how to purchase the shoes pictured above or Axe’s signature cashmere hoodies, view here.

Categories Media Our Kind of Traitor Print Media

Damian Lewis Says He Plays American Characters So Often He Forgets to Speak in a British Accent – July 8, 2016

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Damian Lewis Says He Plays American Characters So Often He Forgets to Speak in a British Accent

By Alexa Valiente, ABC News, July 8, 2016

Damian Lewis says he’s been playing American characters for so long that sometimes he forgets to speak in his British accent.

“I go get my groceries in an American accent,” Lewis said in an interview with Peter Travers on ABC News’ “Popcorn with Peter Travers.”   “And I get halfway through paying and I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry. I’m British, and I have no idea why I’m talking in an American accent to you but I’ve been doing it all week.”

While most people know him as the American characters Bobby Axelrod on the Showtime show “Billions” and Nicholas Brody in another Showtime show “Homeland,” Lewis can finally speak in his British accent in his latest film “Our Kind of Traitor.”

In the movie, Lewis plays the British character Hector, who works for the British secret intelligence service MI6 and has a grudge against a politician who’s done something unspeakable to him and his family.

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Billions is THE Show to Watch – Jan 27, 2016

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Billions is THE Show to Watch

by Jackie K. Cooper – The Blog – January 27, 2016

SHOWTIME has a hit in its new series “Billions.” After only airing two episodes of a twelve episode season the show has already been renewed for another season. This is all as it should be since “Billions” has a first rate cast, a twisting and twisted plot, and production values that are comparable to well done movies.

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The show focuses on a war of wills between an aggressive U.S. Attorney (Paul Giamatti) and a hedge fund giant (Damian Lewis). These two men, Chuck Rhoades and Bobby “Axe” Axlerod, play for high stakes with the winner taking all. Neither man is willing to give an inch and all bets are off as to who will be standing when all the dust clears.

Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis seen at Showtime's 2015 Summer TCA held at The Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision for Showtime/AP Images)

BILLIONS SUNDAY’S 10PM ON SHOWTIME!

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Review: Billions Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans – Jan 15, 2016

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Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans

 by Heather Havrilesky – The New York Times – January 15, 2016

Damian Lewis portrays the hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod in the series “Billions,” beginning Sunday on Showtime.
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Men who make lots of money and growl at one another about profits and margins and winning and losing. Remember them?

Americans used to love watching stories about those guys, in the years before the excesses of Wall Street spawned a great recession and before Bernie Madoff brought abject fear back to personal investing. Once their shortsighted shell games toppled the world economy, though, it was a little harder to get into that high-capitalist gambling spirit.

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Damian Was Third Choice to Play Homeland’s Nick Brody – Jan 12, 2016

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Damian Lewis had to fend off Ryan Philippe and Patrick Wilson to play Homeland’s Nicholas Brody

by Sarah Doran – RadioTimes – January 12, 2016

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Showrunner Alex Gansa reveals the British actor wasn’t top of the list of Showtime’s potential leading men for the espionage thriller.

He may now be one of TV and film’s most famous redheads but did you know Damian Lewis very nearly missed out on his role as Homeland’s Nicholas Brody?

 When casting for the US show began, Lewis wasn’t Showtime’s (the network Homeland debuted on) first choice for the role. In fact, he wasn’t even the second, despite showrunner Alex Gansa’s determination to see him step into Brody’s shoes.

“When we first brought him up, everyone was very negative about the suggestion,” Gansa told The New Yorker. Their hesitation had a lot to do with the failure of Life, a cancelled NBC police procedural drama in which the British actor had played the lead character.

“That carries a pretty big stigma,” Gansa said. “The network really wanted Ryan Phillippe; Patrick Wilson passed. I kept talking about Damian until I got a call from the head of the studio saying, ‘Look, Alex, please do not bring up Damian’s name again.’ Hanging up the phone in my office – I think we were two weeks from the start of principal photography – I was like, Are we going to cast Ryan Phillippe in this role?”

That’s right. A non-Lewis Brody very nearly happened. We know, you guys. We know.

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TV Review: Billions – Jan 5, 2016

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TV Review: ‘Billions’

by  – Variety – January 5, 2016

Damian Lewis as Bobby “Axe” Axelrod and Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades in Billions (Season 1, Episode 1) Photo: JoJo Whilden/SHOWTIME

If you are immune to the many charms of Paul Giamatti’s work, and the endless ways in which his “Billions” character displays intelligence and irritation through a series of perfectly deployed glares, this tale of high-powered hedge-fund players and the lawyers they battle may not be up your alley.

Giamatti plays Chuck Rhoades, a well-to-do U.S. Attorney for New York who feels compelled to rein in Wall Street excesses, with Damian Lewis as Bobby Axelrod, a hotshot mega-billionaire who can’t resist throwing his might and money around in ways that make for bad P.R., and bring scrutiny from law enforcement.

That description raises the question of whether you’ll be able to work up any sympathy for the one-percenters locked in combat in this slick series.

Many regular folks who’ve witnessed the frightening fallout of some of Wall Street’s high-stakes games may find that the subject matter itself is a dealbreaker. Just about every character in “Billions” has, at the very least, a trust fund and a few million in the bank — but many have substantially more.

Whatever their headaches, the day-to-day lives of these hedge-fund guys, especially Bobby, make Don Draper’s lifestyle look like a monk’s.

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