I Can't Believe I'm Getting Paid For What I've Always Wanted
To Do'
Damian Lewis talks to Gabrielle Donnelly about work,
marriage -- and why he'd like to star in a romance.
by Gabrielle Donnelly, Woman's Weekly, July 30, 2013
On screen, Damian Lewis tends to specialise in characters
that, frankly, would make your heart sink if your daughter brought them home.
They're either withdrawn (Major Winters in Band Of Brothers), tortured (Soames
in The Forsyte Saga) or impossibly complicated (Nicholas Brody in Homeland). So
it's a bit of a treat to find that, off screen, he resembles nothing so much as
a friendly ginger-haired puppy, all jokes, windmill-armed impressions of
himself and other actors, and self-deprecatory comments delivered in his
real-life accent -- neither American nor old-Etonian (which he is), but
down-to-earth London with, endearingly, a hint of his Welsh grandparents.
Softly spoken, and with piercing blue eyes, he sits in front of me…
"Whether it's Homeland or Romeo & Juliet, great
writing has great subtext, meaning there isn't just one thing going on at any
one time," he enthuses. "Having so many things happening makes it
very interesting to play. Of course, there were some days on Homeland when
there was so much going on, I had no clue what I was supposed to be doing, so I
just looked slightly blank and everyone thought 'Brody's being complicated,'
which is great!"
To be continued….
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| source damian-lewis.com |
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