Damian Lewis is Kirsty Young's Castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs

source: BBC Radio 4

Damian Lewis was Kirsty Young's Castaway on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs (DID) this morning. 

You can listen to the interview here and download it to listen on the go, too! 

Damian's favorite music choice for DID was Elvis Presley's Bossa Nova Baby :) 

We also have an article for you from Wales Online talking about the radio interview. 

ENJOY!

Homeland star Damian Lewis fluffing his lines - surely not?

Don’t worry Brody-fans, the talented actor hasn’t lost the plot, he was just recalling a school play incident on this week’s episode of Desert Island Discs.

source: BBC 4 Radio

Appearing on the popular Radio 4’ show, he told host Kirsty Young that being on stage felt “instinctive”, but admitted it had not always been the case and aged 11 he had forgotten the whole third act of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida. 

Lewis, whose paternal grandparents are Welsh, said: “It’s like an actor’s nightmare that actors have before they’re getting ready for press night but it happened to me in real life. I stood on a stage in front of the entire school with Mrs Woodgates playing the piano from the side and singing at least one song for me and saying quite a lot of my dialogue as well.

“I was stood there mouthing it on the stage like I might just fool them if I just keep moving my lips. The headmaster said it was the worst dress rehearsal in his history of being at the school”.

The actor, who was recently made an OBE, is set to play King Henry VIII in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor-era novels. He has guest presented Have I Got News For You six times and  recently appeared in feature film The Silent Storm.

He also revealed a childhood love of Elvis Presley and revealed he would use shaving foam to achieve the perfect quiff.

Eton-educated Lewis made his name playing Major Richard Winters in the Second World War epic Band Of Brothers, before cementing his star status in the role of returned prisoner of war Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in Homeland.

The star, who is married to fellow actor Helen McCrory, of Peaky Blinders fame, that the pair have a policy of politely rejecting fan requests when out and about, saying: “It can be hard to stop and give someone a photo, but if I’m with the family I tend to just blanketly say no photos today, I’m out with the family.

“It’s good for the children, I think, not to see their parents as endlessly being photographed by strangers. It’s a slightly warped view of the world.”

The red-head told Young he would need “some Aloe vera oil-based lotion” to protect his pale skin from the Desert Island sun, but chose to take a whittling kit as his luxury item.

Among his chosen tracks were Crystal Clear by electronic dance act The Grid, Baggy Trousers by Madness and Bix Beiderbecke’s Goose Pimples.