New Wolf Hall stills.....

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more from the trailer....

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Wolf Hall: Damian Lewis is a sinister Henry VIII in new BBC trailer

A new trailer for the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has been released, showing Damian Lewis as a sinister Henry VIII.

The Homeland actor stars alongside Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell in the upcoming six-part series, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name and sequel Bring Up The Bodies.

Directed by Peter Kosminsky with a screenplay by Peter Straughan, the story follows Cromwell’s rise from humble blacksmith’s son to the Tudor monarch’s closest advisor.

“Now is the time for you to become the king you should be,” Cromwell tells Henry in one scene.

“I keep you because you’re a serpent,” is his ominous reply. “Everything that you are, everything that you have, will come from me.”

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Wolf Hall: Trailer - BBC Two

COMING SOON

Wolf Hall starts 21 January 9pm on BBC2

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We will be back on 02.January 2015

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!

So glad to have you back here on the blog and today we will tell you

a bit more about our next weeks.

We will have VARIETY WEEKS

Damian`s work is full of variety and with Wolf Hall Our Kind of Traitor

and the Billions pilot as well as American Buffalo we couldn’t have more variety so we will have

a close and deep look on every project and mix it with great reports  and tips from London.  we will show you some lovely castles

in England and read here Henry's letters to Anne Boleyn and of course you won’t miss our instalments like tea and mag , pic of the day and some good old memory clips 

        

We promise you a fantastic year full of surprises and great things with information

And much fun!! 

on DFI and damian-lewis.com you are always best informed and hopefully best entertaint with a lot of Damian Lewis stuff and great sidekicks 

Wolf Hall Soundtrack availbale for pre order now

Wolf Hall soundtrack will be released soon...

Silva Screen Records will release a soundtrack album for the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall. 

 The soundtrack will be released overseas on March 9, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. 

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Wolf Hall episode three

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Damian Lewis 2014

Merry Christmas and We will be back!!

We wish you a wonderful Christmas and hope you will be surrounded by family and friends

And you will have a lovely and relaxed time…

We will be back fully and completely on 02.January 2015 with more reports news and surprises

But PLEASE guys stay tuned for updates and notes her on DFI

And please enjoy in the meantime our wrap up pictures from Damian Lewis in 2014

Have a great time and THANKS A LOT for your help and support!!

Without we couldn’t do all this…thank you and merry Christmas

Sabrina and Emma

PERSONAL NOTE

We are very happy to announce today that we teamed up with damian-lewis.com
and now we will get you everything you need to know about Damian Lewis his project
and latest news!!

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hope you enjoy both sites and see here from now on related stuff and background informations
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GET YOUR TICKETS!!

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Damian Lewis on stage is a great event and a must see!!

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The Interview: Damian Lewis for Hunger TV wrap up clips

Have I Got News for You with Damian Lewis our wrap up clips

Tea and a Mag wrap up part three

You come across as a highly confident individual. Where does this confidence come from?

I think it comes from my family, from my parents, from the certainty that one is loved. It's very important to give that to your children. I think it gives them a sincere confidence. A good experience of childhood sets you up for life. I went to boarding school, and if you have certain attributes you thrive in those places. So I succeeded at school, and it was a happy time for me. I was a natural schoolboy, if you like. I loved sports and theatre, doing school plays, but I didn't work very hard, and in time that came back and bit me in the arse -- I loped through my A-levels so fruitlessly! Luckily I was bright enough to just wing it through. It was a lot to do with luck.

How comfortable are you with the idea of fame?

Emma and the Blog

Why are you a Damian Lewis Fan and why you doing this Blog?

 I am a fan of Damian for many many reasons, I became a fan after watching Homeland and then Life, followed by the Forsyte Saga, and from there Watching Kene, after seeing him as so many different roles, I realised what an incredible actor he is and wanted more,  I wanted to be more than a fan and once I met Sabrina at Times Talks back in May, she was the one who gave me the opportunity to be more than just a fan and the reason I do the blog is so that I can write, as I wanted to be a journalist long ago, before marriage and babies, now I have my chance to write about a fabulous actor.

tell us about the Pros and Cons of Blogging? 

 The pro of blogging for me is getting to write interesting pieces for the blog, doing research, having to google Damian Day and night so as not to miss anything and being part of such a special family.  My one Con is that I have to learn how to update the blog myself and not just submit my work to poor Sabrina to do it .

What is your actual goal for DFI ?

 My goal for Dfi is to make it a household name, the more popular Damian is the more people will want to read about it - I would like the blog to become the one stop shop for Damian Lewis news

Who is your favourite Damian character and why?

Ooooooo that is such a hard question, I have a huge soft spot for Charlie Crews, but I do love a more natural Damian where he is talking with his British accent and is not overly made up - I have to say I love Milo and now we both share the same profession - Baker!!!

Which of the new projects are you looking forward most?

I cannot wait for Wolf Hall, but the fact he is back on the London Stage in May that has to be the best news of the year for me 

 describe yourself and Damian Lewis in six adjectives.  - Happy, Positive, Content, Friendly, Worldly and Trusting

see another gorgeous picture from the Evening Standard Theatre Award

lovely picture from the Evening Standard Theatre Award

more Wolf Hall stills and a site note

see more Wolf Hall stills from episode two!!

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Damian Lewis and Jack Whitehall BGC Charity Day 2014 wrap up clips

Tea and a Mag wrap up part two

Homeland tackles some very plausible plot lines. What has it been like to be involved in a show that can often feel uncomfortably close to reality?

It has been part of the great success of the show. The writers have brilliantly picked current political stories -- the obvious example being terrorism, something that is with us now for the foreseeable future. The idea that an upstanding American hero, who happens to be a marine, might change his ideology was a bold story outline to choose. It challenges Americans with the idea that one of your own might turn against you.

Has this idea been the show's key to success?

There's a well-pronounced sense of fear in America, a fear of the "other", and Homeland has largely been a success because it feeds into that. It has also challenged the audience to explore the idea that terrorism, or acts of violence, can be orchestrated by governments, and that it's not as clear-cut anymore. There's no clear hero in this show. It has refused to make judgments, and I think it has been brilliantly nuanced and ambiguous.

What kind of reactions have you had to your portrayal of a Muslim?

I've had people come up to me and say it's one of the most sensitive portrayals that they've ever seen. In spite of the fact that Brody was prepared to blow everybody up in a suicide mission, his faith always provided a very personal source of nourishment. We always depicted his faith in an intimate, personal and very sincere way, and a lot of people I've spoken to have been thankful for that.

In the show you had to pray in a faith that is not your own, demonstrate symptoms of PTSD, and recover from a severe heroin addiction. What kind of research and preparation did you do?

Well, my research is pretty conventional. I'm not an out-and-out method actor, but I do like to stay in character a lot during filming. I don't need to go and live in Iraq for three months to embed myself -- well I can't, I've got a family! -- but I certainly spoke to a lot of Muslims, and here in London I went to the London Central Mosque, and I read the Koran and its teachings. Similarly with PTSD and heroin addiction, I watched a lot of video footage and spoke to addicts and people who work to help those suffering. A lot of my research is based on the anecdotes of real people.

Was Claire Danes the best Carrie the producers could have cast?

Can you imagine if the part had been played by any other Hollywood actress, anyone with an ounce of vanity about them as a performer? Claire has no vanity. She's committed to making sure she represents the story in the best possible way. Her performance is totally and utterly committed, terrifyingly so at times. I know a hundred other actresses who wouldn't be prepared to commit to the role in the way she has. I think it has been an amazing thing for her.

Were you ready to say goodbye to the role?

Yes. I'd known for some time that this would be Brody's last season, so I was well prepared. Still it was such an enjoyable job that I'll miss Brody. I have no idea where they'll take Homeland next, but I bet it will be brilliant. Some people have said that the end of season three felt like a series finale. It brought the first story line to a close, but I think they'll find many more equally intriguing ones.

to be continued 

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A dream character that isn’t a dream anymore

Its half an hour ago that I agreed with Bahar not to write about a dream character

because I am busy but now its after midnight and the blog didn’t leave me as usual…

so Prof. Brody when you read this you will remind that special night on 23/11/14(thank you)

ok so actually I couldn’t write about my dream character because we start the blog a year too late for that…because my dream character all those years were surprise surprise Henry VIII.

I always dreamt he would take a role in a brilliant production and being a fabulous King.

No not because of his read hair but because Damian Lewis is able to make evil understandable.

Soames Brody…he shows us always there is more under the surface and that it would be too easy

To just say a certain person is good or bad because it’s never that easy.   

And another reason for me was I was sure Damian Lewis could show Henry`s charisma

which I am sure he had and he is always describe that way a man who wanted to be loved by his

empire and who was able to sit with farmers other kings and women on a table and

each of them found him appealing for completely different reasons.

And even if I admit that I am crazy about Wolf Hall so crazy that I did a little but loud enough

scream during times talks, the first time in my life .so embarrassing in the personal recap but hey I

missed a good scream during teenage time so I had to catch up.lol

but really, I can see even in those pics we saw that I will be in love with his Henry because

it’s the charismatic but probably a bit lunatic man I was talking about so thanks to BBC and

Damian Lewis my dream character came true and I should apologize in advance

For overloading the blog with Wolf Hall stuff once it will be broadcasted, please don’t leave lol

We will enjoy the History time here with great stuff and with actors like Rylance and Lewis

We can’t do wrong.

But first enjoy Prof.piece about her dreaming character coming so soon 

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more about Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall preview: BBC2's Hilary Mantel adaptation could already be the best drama of 2015

The much-anticipated historical drama, starring Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance, lives up to the books, and the hype, says Ben Dowell

For those, like me, who have eagerly devoured Hilary Mantel’s door-stopping Booker-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the experience was like being taken directly into the world of candlelit Tudor intrigue and the minds of its people.

We see events around King Henry VIII’s court in all their detail – the plotting, the hunting, the finery, the domestic minutiae – and all from the point of view of the man who became Henry's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell. The person history has largely judged to be a calculating apparatchik is fleshed out and painted in all his flawed, exquisite humanity.

But how could the BBC cram over 1,000 pages of story (and there’s a third novel to come) into six hours of drama? It is a monumental task, but it’s one they appear to have pulled off.

The key to Mantel’s success was to take a well-known story from history and imbue it with dramatic tension. While we all know what will happen to Anne Boleyn, and that Henry will lop the head off another wife and die something of a fat angry old man, the people living these lives didn’t. They did not see themselves as historical figures, they were just in the midst of their lives.

Both Straughan and director Peter Kosminsky have captured the drama and depth of the story, aided by a magisterial performance from Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, the super-smart son of a blacksmith who rose to the highest office in the land.

Rylance is a uniquely gifted performer who marries a brilliant mind with an enormous heart, and even just one look from him seems to carry years of pain, hurt, fear and deep human feeling. The scene in episode one in which he loses his wife and two daughters to sweating sickness is truly devastating; just as heart-breaking is the fact that he is then forced to switch in the next scene to discussing matters of state and the issue of the King’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon (he mentions his bereavement in passing to his boss, Jonathan Pryce’s good-natured and optimistic Cardinal Wolsey). The marrying of the personal and the public is the great achievement of the book – and now the drama.

Of course, there are other characters in the story and episode one uses flashback to recall Cromwell's unendurably painful childhood, where he suffered at the hands of his violent father, and to his time as chief advisor to the deposed Wolsey. There is also a deliciously creepy turn from Mark Gatiss as Cromwell's enemy Bishop Stephen Gardiner.

But everything builds up to Cromwell's meeting with Damian Lewis’ Henry VIII – constantly mentioned, but only encountered at the end of episode one when he finally appears in all his Henrician glory. The signs are that Lewis will be able combine the charisma and the unpredictable brutality of the Monarch.

But it is on Rylance that the laurels seem likely to be bestowed in what is already looking like it could be the stand out drama of 2015.

Wolf Hall begins airing on BBC2 in January

American Buffalo

American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at theGoodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions, it opened on Broadway on February 16, 1977.^[1] Critic Frank Rich called it "one of the best American plays of the last decade."

Act I takes place at about 11 AM. Don, who owns the junk shop where the entire play takes place, has sold a buffalo nickel to a customer for ninety dollars but now suspects it is worth considerably more. He and his young gofer, Bob (sometimes called Bobby), plan to steal the coin back. Bob has been keeping watch on the customer's house and reports that he has left for the weekend with a suitcase. Teach, a poker buddy of Don's, arrives and learns of the scheme. He persuades Don that Bob is too inexperienced and untrustworthy for the burglary, and proposes himself as Bob's replacement. Teach suggests they steal the whole coin collection and more. Don insists on their poker buddy Fletcher going with Teach. Teach continues to argue that he can do without Fletcher.

Act II takes place a little before midnight on the same day. Teach and Don make final preparations to begin the burglary while waiting for Fletcher, who is late. Teach tells Don that Fletcher is a liar and a cheater at cards, and prepares to go commit the burglary on his own. Don is trying to persuade him not to take his gun with him when Bob appears at the store. He attempts to sell Don a buffalo nickel, similar to the one Don had sold the customer. When asked where he got the coin, Bob is evasive. Teach suspects that Bob and Fletcher have organized and completed their own burglary behind Don and Teach's backs. He asks Bob where Fletcher is. Bob tells him that Fletcher was mugged by some Mexicans and is in a hospital, but when Don calls the hospital, they have no record of his admission. Bob claims that he must have been mistaken about the name of the hospital, but the suspicious Teach strikes him on the head with a metal object. Another friend calls, corroborating Bob's story and naming the correct hospital. Don calls the hospital and confirms that Fletcher has been admitted with a broken jaw. Bob confesses that he made up the story about the customer leaving with a suitcase, and that he bought the second nickel from a coin dealer to make up to Don for his failure to keep tabs on the customer. Don admonishes Teach for wounding Bob and orders him to get his car so they can take him to the hospital.

Style

As is emblematic of Mamet's writing style, the play's dialogue is sometimes terse and often vulgar. Teach says "cunt" numerous times and both Don and Teach say "fuck" even more. (By way of contrast, the younger character Bobby only says "fuck" in situations of extreme duress: immediately after being beaten and his final apology to Donnie.) Mamet's profanity is not employed for shock value, but is rather an integral component of his characters' "profane poetry", which, according to frequent collaborator Gregory Mosher, "worked the iambic pentameter out of the vernacular of the underclass."^[3] The characters' sometimes vulgar lexicon, moreover, may be seen as psychologically necessary armor against their brutal environment.^[4]

The parenthetical stage directions are straightforward and do not provide line readings.

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American Boffalo...get yourself the book

The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business."This play is a parable about the US - not in the journalistic way...but quietly, stealthily, with all the rich interior organisation of a true work of art" (Observer)

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Our Wrap up clips...

Tea and a Mag wrap up

see here again the brilliant Hunger Mag interview as our tea and mag wrap up...

Damian Lewis is a confident character, and he has been known to stir up the occasional controversy, be it for his comments at the end of 2013 about his fear of becoming a "slightly over the top, fruity stage actor who eventually lands film work playing wizards", or for signing a Homeland DVD set to President Obama with the joke, "from one Muslim to another". There is, however, an obvious humility to the 43-year-old actor, who puts a lot of his fame down to good luck.

Before making it big, Damian began his acting career as a mischievous boy in London's famous Abbey Road. At the age of 16, he started his own theatre company, and in 1993 he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He took to the stage, working with the Royal Shakespeare Company when he caught the attention of Steven Spielberg, who later cast him in his television miniseries, Band Of Brothers. In 2002, he came close to swooping a Golden Globe for his part in Spielberg's show, but he had to wait until 2013 to put one on his mantelpiece, for his masterly portrayal of Nicholas Brody in Homeland.

With Homeland seemingly wrapped up for Damian, he has left the show at the top (or hanging from a crane, to be precise). This year he returns to the big screen alongside Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Robert Pattinson in Werner Herzog's latest film, Queen Of The Desert. Beyond that the actor continues to keep us guessing. It seems Homeland may have rubbed off on him in more ways than one. ...

Hunger: Damian, you have spent a lot of time working in the US, playing American characters and perfecting your accent. Do you still feel wholly British?

Damian Lewis: Yes, I do. I'm glad you ask about Britishness rather than Englishness, as I feel very British. I feel everything that being British has to offer. I think we can take a great delight in our Celtic traditions as well as our more Anglican ones. I've really enjoyed working in America, but there is a cultural difference. It's a very conservative place. I feel the grandeur of America.

What home comforts do you make sure you always have with you when you're away?

PG Tips so I can have a good strong cup of tea every morning.

And what did you miss the most when you were filming Homeland?

When filming Homeland, I spent most of my time in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's a very large and spread-out place where you rely heavily on cars. I missed the clamour of London; it's a much more condensed city where you can exercise your senses. I love getting out of cars and getting on the tube. I also missed riding my bicycle, and of course, going to the pub.

What do you think about the idea that we're currently witnessing a British "takeover" of Hollywood?

You say currently, but I've been asked this question solidly for the past ten years, and that's the truth. I think it feels more pronounced now because the television landscape has changed. It's become more visually ambitious. The American industry has started to look abroad, filming in places like Britain and using British actors. I consider myself very lucky to have been working during this time of change, where there was a shift in creative appreciation between film and television. This really opened up Hollywood to British actors even more, and that's why you see a lot of us going across to America to play these brilliantly written, fantastically conceived long-running television shows, not just films.

Homeland tackles some very plausible plot lines. What has it been like to be involved in a show that can often feel uncomfortably close to reality?

It has been part of the great success of the show. The writers have brilliantly picked current political stories -- the obvious example being terrorism, something that is with us now for the foreseeable future. The idea that an upstanding American hero, who happens to be a marine, might change his ideology was a bold story outline to choose. It challenges Americans with the idea that one of your own might turn against you.

to be continued 

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this week...

Hi and Welcome back!!

since its quite close to Christmas and a brand new year we decided to make kind of a wrap up week
where you can read a bit about us and see a real HIGHLIGHT with our TOP TEN DAMIAN
Moments of the year as well as the very best wrap up clips...

enjoy and have a wonderful week

Damian Lewis accepts Bob Geldorf`s challenge

two days ago Sir Bob Geldorf nominated Damian Lewis to do his Band Aid challenge.

Sir Bob Geldof has launched an exciting new Band Aid challenge to raise money for the fight against Ebola.

Following on from the release of the record-breaking Band Aid single, the stunt sees Sir Bob, 63, kick things off by singing a line from a song before nominating three others to do the same.

Our exclusive video shows the former Boomtown Rats frontman performing Bono's line in Do They Know It's Christmas, before challenging "the creme de la creme of British acting" - Damian Damien Lewis, Dominic West and Richard E. Grant to follow suit.

"I’m doing this to help raise awareness this Christmas about the fight against the Ebola Virus," he said.

now Damian has accepted the challenge as you can see here.

Homeland actor Damian Lewis also stepped up to take Sir Bob Geldof's Band Aid singing challenge, with quite hilarious results.

The 43-year-old star's video sees him attempting to sing Bono's line from Do They Know It's Christmas before going onto nominate Hugh Grant and Jamie Theakston.

"Hello, I am a slightly hoarse Damian Lewis accepting Bob Geldof's challenge to sing Bono's famous line from the Band Aid song," he says.

"I'm going to donate £10 after this. Anyone who wants to play please donate to bandaid30.com or text AID to 70707. Here we go, here is my rendition of..."

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BREAKING NEWS DAMIAN LEWIS RETURNS TO THE STAGE !!!!!!!

CONFIRMED !!!!!!!!

Damian Lewis stars in Mamet's American Buffalo at Wyndham's Theatre

Damian Lewis is returning to the London stage in a play that he hails as a ‘tragic tale for our times’.

The actor will star in David Mamet’s blistering classic American Buffalo in the spring.

‘I wanted to get back to the stage, but I didn’t want to do it unless it was a great play,’ the actor, whose last West End outing was in The Misanthrope opposite Keira Knightley five years ago, told me yesterday.

American Buffalo certainly fits that bill. Mamet’s 1975 drama’s about three ineffective petty hustlers attempting to diddle a man out of a rare US coin. The men view their low-grade criminality purely as business, with a bit of violence attached.

Damian, who won awards for his performance as soldier Nicholas Brody in TV hit Homeland and will be seen on BBC2 next month, portraying Henry VIII in the Beeb’s six-part adaptation of Wolf Hall, said he caught William H. Macy as Teach (the part he will take) in a version of American Buffalo that ran at the Donmar Warehouse 14 years ago.

Lewis recalled being struck by the ‘claustrophobia of these three disenfranchised working class men’, unable to make anything of their lives.

He said the piece was funny ‘in some places’, but added that it’s also a ‘tragic tale for our times’ because ‘it’s not hard to imagine groups of young men, unemployed, sitting in bars and cafes, thinking: “How the hell can we make some dough, because times are tough?” ’

He observed that for the trio in Mamet’s play, ‘the opportunities of life have simply passed by — or they have failed to take them’.

They’re scrabbling for their personal health, mental health, and pride. And I think that’s a common experience for a lot of people at the moment who are searching for ways to scratch a living.’

American Buffalo continues to resonate because it shatters the myth of the American Dream. Teach and his pals know it doesn’t exist, for them at least.

Lewis said he and Matthew Byam Shaw, a partner in Playful Productions, had been batting ideas around for some time but the conversation shifted into (as he put it) ‘kick b****cks, scramble!’ mode once the actor’s availability aligned with a window of opportunity at the much in-demand Wyndham’s Theatre.

It’s a minor miracle that it came together so fast,’ said Lewis, who praised Byam Shaw for ‘not giving up’.

American Buffalo will begin performances at Wyndham’s for a limited ten and a half week season from April 16, but it must end on June 27.

In January and February, Lewis shoots the pilot episode of Billions, a new thriller for Showtime in which he plays a seriously rich hedge fund magnate.

He then proceeds to American Buffalo, which is being directed by Daniel Evans, artistic chief of Sheffield Theatres, before returning to Billlions, filming the full first season from July to December.

The director and leading man became friends when both studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Lewis noted that any drama student now would have been five when American Buffalo was last seen in London, back in 2000.

Producer Byam Shaw said he would be arranging some affordable seats for students, but prices haven’t been set yet.

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read here what Damian Lewis and director Daniel Evans saying..

Award-winning Homeland star Damian Lewis is returning to the London stage - but admits he has battled for two years to make it happen.

The actor, whose last play was The Misanthrope in 2009 with Keira Knightley, will star in David Mamet’s dark drama American Buffalo in the spring.

He said it was “one of the great plays of the 20th century by one of the great living playwrights” and “a play I really wanted to do”. 

But it was “a minor miracle” that they had pulled it off because theatre was booming. “It is more difficult to find a theatre, book a director, line all the ducks up in a row to get something on,” he said.

I’ve tried about three or four times in the last couple of years and things have fallen apart. With theatre, you have to plan almost a year in advance. But we got lucky - a theatre was available.”

Lewis, 43, will play Teach - the role taken by Dustin Hoffman in the 1996 film - in the story of three working-class small-time crooks.

It will be directed by Daniel Evans, whom he has known since training at the Guildhall in London. Lewis conceded that he, an old Etonian, and Evans, a gay Welshman, were not “on the face of it natural fits” for the story of blue-collar desperation: “It’s a big challenge, of course, but that is what is attractive about it. My experience in life is not that of these guys in the play.”

Yet, he said: ”When I play Americans, I tend to play lower American types for whatever reason.”

Having won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role as Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in Homeland, his new TV series is Billionaires in which he plays a self-made man - though he does work his way up to be a hedge fund manager. He will be filming alongside Paul Giamatti, as a district attorney, before and after his West End run.

Going on stage was “always terrifying, but terrifying in a good way,” Lewis added.

He grew up in theatre and met his wife, Helen McCrory, at the AlmeidaL “Television and film have been a lovely big sort of accident. But I quickly learned what wonderful projects there were to work on if you were lucky enough to be invited. So theatre has taken a bit of a back seat.”

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