Friendship

The word friendship has so many meanings - but true friendship is something someone is blessed with, something you can spend a life time looking for and then suddenly you click with someone and a beautiful friendship is formed.

Damian Lewis has played so many wonderful, weird and bad ass characters in his career, yet as many as I can recall he has mostly always had a best friend.  Lets take a look......

Homeland - Brody and Mike, a friendship of two marines who stuck together in war, and a friend who lost his best friend or so he thought, however although we watch homeland and think of the Mike and Brody friendship I always thought that Carrie was really his best friend, she was the one person he could talk to, rely on and laugh with.

Life - Officer Stark and Charlie Crews, or is it Ted or even Detective Dani Rees? So many friends new and old - a hard one for Charlie, he had his partner Officer Stark before he went to jail and who at one point thought he was guilty, his new friend Dani Reese his new partner when he was set free, although that was more of a love hate friendship and then of course Ted Early - his cellmate and now house mate and clearly a best mate!

Wolf Hall - Henry and Thomas Cromwell - When we think of Henry the 8th I could never imagine him with a bestie! or even someone who he could class as a friend but when watching the brilliant Wolf Hall. The relationship between Crowell (Mark Rilance) and Henry (Damian Lewis) on and off set you could see the friendship.  

The Baker - In The Baker Milo goes from not having any friends at all to having a village full of them.  This is one of my favourite films, so light hearted and a special place in my heart because of what I do for a living.  Milo ends up in a village in wales, with lots of good friends with one in particular called Rhiannon (played by Kate Ashfield) 

Friends & Crocodiles - A strange but wonderful film, Rich Paul Reynolds has his fill of friends in this film, but are most people his friend because of his huge wealth and power?  This films spans 20 years of the life of Paul Reynolds and the one friend who loves him dearly, Lizzie, at one point you will think they should fall in love but they never do, however they do love each other. Its a wonderful friendship with love and tears.

Dreamcatcher - Damian plays a character called Jonesy.  The film is taken from the Steven King novel.  A group of friends go on a camping trip only to discover that the town they are in is taken over by aliens.  There is a come together of friendship in this film - old and new!

The Forsyte Saga - Soames, what can we say about this character, who really most people dislike or are scared of - but when i watched it I realised that his only friend was his daughter Fleur, people wanted to be friends with him, but everyone was at arms length and he never ever got close.  Irenne would be who he would have probably classed as his best friend - but I would say that the one person who he loved and would do anything for is his daughter.

The list is endless but it goes to show that everyone needs a friend everyone should have a friend.  So take a moment and think to yourself now - who is your best friend? you may have more than one, now take a moment and drop them a text or give them a ring and tell them "thank you" for being a good friend.