Damian as Soldier

Band of Brothers was the breakthrough for Damian Lewis and a huge success

and almost ten years later another breakthrough catapulted Damian Lewis

into new heights and got him an A  lister`s name.

and both times it was a soldier who made him a household name.

Winters and Brody couldn’t be more different but both times Damian Lewis

gave a whole nation a face.

He made Winters known all over the world and he explained the modern world that

even a War is far away its still our War.

Winters a hero and Brody a broken hero.

Maybe both men never wanted to be heroes but no asked them, no one asking young

boys and men if they want to fight for a nation and that’s exactly what Damian Lewis

shows in his performances in both pieces.

Just with the slight difference that Winters was a real men and a real hero.

Brody was “just” a character invented by a scriptwriter and performed by an actor.

But Damian Lewis made us aware that there are thousands of Brody`s outside.

Men who come back from War incapable to find a place in society or in the family.

they have marriage problems a fact you hardly read about but a fact Damian

made us aware in a brilliantly disturbing way and even here in Germany newspapers and audience

started to talk about after the unsettling scenes from Homeland`s season two.

Damian Lewis a well-educated Brit with perfect Gentleman’s attitude and behaviour brought

the world two men of War who couldn’t be more different but he gave them a face

and moreover a soul and reached our hearts. Thank you   

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Emma about the King.-) Wolf Hall on PBS memory piece

So last night after spending the evening with my husband for his birthday and at 9pm looking at my watch and thinking “why today did it have to be his birthday” , I got home at 11.15pm and just had to watch my pre-recorded wolf  hall which was on over 2 hours earlier – like a child I couldn’t wait another day to see it, and boy was I glad I waited up for another hour to feed my anticipated addiction.

As the credits began and the music started the hairs on my arm began to move and I was rooted to the spot.  I don’t want to give too much away for people in the US who are still to wait for a few months to see it, but the acting, the set and the sheer brilliance was just wonderful.  As a child and now adult I have to admit that I was never really into period dramas – however over the last 24 months Damian Lewis has changed my perception of this and since Forstye Saga I have been turned (not in a Brody way though) Mark Rylance plays Thomas Cromwell brilliantly and the cast is just fabulous, even down to the children. 

 I spoke to a friend today who was rooted to the spot when the Tudors were on television a while back and she said to me “ this is going to be a fantastic 6 weeks” and then clutching my cup of tea and dunking a biscuit the wait was over, Henry made his debut appearance on my screen, dressed in red with his floppy black hat and his sneering grin, there stood in the palace gardens, Damian Lewis, portraying King Henry 8^th. 

 At first I had the urge to shout “whohoo” but then realised at 12am and kids asleep probably best just to keep it to my big smile and watch the last 5 minutes of what promises to be one of the best period dramas on the BBC in a very long time – BBC 2 have already said that they have not had TV ratings on a show that high in over a decade – so whether it’s down to a fantastic adaptation, or a great director or is it the fact that Damian Lewis has been cast into a magnificent British drama – whatever the reason I know I will be infront of my TV every Wednesday at 9pm for the next 6 weeks. 

more reviews follow and of course you will read it every week here on DFI

Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel one of my favorites

Excitement on site and blog

we are very happy and excited this week about all the fantastic news and the brilliant start of Wolf Hall!

we had new pictures news and a King we worship already and the week ends with the amazing casting news for American Buffalo so I am very happy and I am sure all fans around the world feel the same way.

its been a month now that we teamed up again with damian-lewis.com and it was the best decision
Emma and I ever made.big thanks again from us to the Selene...you are the best and we are happy!!

the feedback ever since is overwhelming and I know heartfelt and yes it is a lot of work to do
but we love it.

its great fun to do fan work for other fans and know its so much appreciated special thanks to the
Damian Bunnies...your comments often made my day the last months.-)))

but the biggest thank you to all of you to come back over and over again on site and blog and share our excitement and great Damian moments...

very special thank  you to Michael for the in formations and for your support.its a dream!!

last but not least thanks to Damian Lewis who allow us to do all the fan work and who has been always very kind and supportive to us. Thank You Very Much

we hope you enjoy the year full with fantastic projects in the pipeline and with us on DFI and
 http://www.damian-lewis.com/

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We welcome a guest Blogger today!!

I am happy to welcome a guest blogger today....Grace Babb tells you all about
Phineas and Ferb and Damian`s guest attendance a couple of years ago.
we are happy and proud to have you Grace and thanks for your report!!

My name is Grace I am 11 and my Mum Emma works hard to make the Damian Lewis fan blog great with her great friend Sabrina.  I used to watch Phineas and Ferb a lot when I was younger and when my Mum told me that Damian Lewis was the voice of Agent Double 0-0, she asked if I would like to write something about it - so here goes.  I did a bit of research and watched it again - hope you enjoy it as its the first time I have written anything on a blog - even though everything Damian lewis has been in aside from this is a bit grown up for me! 

So Phineas and Ferb are two kids who have a sister called Candice who’s nerves they constantly get on, a bit like my little sister Dani, but they also have a bit of a pet and a friend called Perry the platypus who is a a spy but they boys are unaware of this. They are always getting up to secret things and she is always trying to get them into trouble but never succeeds!

Agent Double 0-0 is a Spy who has come from London in the UK and is set to help Perry the Platypus defeat the evil Dr Doofenshmitz.  He is know to be very skilled as a spy and is meant to be a little bit like James Bond - someone my Mum thinks Damian Lewis would be good at - or so she thinks, ….. anyway he doesn’t really like working with a platypus and is taken aback by the lack of information he is given by Major Monogram (who Perry works for) to help them find the evil doctor.

Agent Double 0-0 is seen wearing a tuxedo and watch that has a built-in laser like James Bond.

• Double 0-0 appears to be based on  Agent Double 0-7 & My mum said that the people of the show have tried to make him look like Sean Connery (not sure who he is??)
• On the episode "its about time", when Doofenshmirtz traps someone, Agent Double 0-0 is seen captured.
• In "Live and Let Drive" Agent Double 0-0 is shown to hate tic-tac-toe since he's very bad at it, as Doofenshmirtz manages to beat him on it several times.

The Voice of Damian Lewis has been in 1 Episode although the character is in three episodes - Live and Let Drive, Its All about time and Its Elememtry My Dear Stacey.  The last one is the only speaking part that the Character has.

see the full episode here 

Phineas and Ferb episode 54 Elementary My Dear Stacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAIwD6b-TcE

THANK YOU GRACE

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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 

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!!

see here the brand new design ;

 damian-lewis.com
and please notice we integrated the blog in the main site so you have access from there too

hope you enjoy both sites and see here from now on related stuff and background informations
as well as our usual installments and check out the main site for news and updates

Sabrina and Emma

special thank you to Selene for her support and hard work those last days and nights:-)

 

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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

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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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

Tea Time Events – The Launch

Emma about her business launch..enjoy

Tea Time Events – The Launch

On November 7^th saw the launch of my new business Tea Time Events, a  pop up vintage tea party company, who bring the complete party to your door.  We had a tremendously good reaction from all the people who were invited.  The launch took place at The Aldenham Golf Club.  I spent the entire day before baking cakes and scones.  I chose my favourite cakes to have on the day, Victoria Sponge, Carrot Cake, Coffee and Walnut Cake, Lemon Drizzle Cake and Cherry loaf.  

My mum who is the creative designer of the team and puts the tables together to look incredible had 4 tables to work with, she did chic black and white, classic vintage pink, antique and white/ivory.  Once the food was put out the tables looked beautiful and I was so proud of what we had both achieved.  I read a short speech thanking the people who were there to take the time to come, and then tea was served.  We had local press there and we have had some articles in the local magazines too.  So far several parties have been booked for next year and we are so excited.  It is wonderful having a company of my own and even better that I am doing it with my best friend, my Mum x

please notice: go and see the website and get yourself an unforgettable tea time!! 

website TTE 

DFI has just reached 30K views & we are celebrating with a Facebook page!

source: Daily Mail

Damian Friends and Inspiration Fan Blog has just reached 30K views and we are celebrating with a bit more social media presence today :)

Please visit our NEW Facebook Page www.facebook.com/DamianFriendsAndInspiration

We know very well that this would not have been possible without your support! We thank YOU for all your support and your clicks on the blog! 

Let's keep having FUN!

OBE honor and personal note

Thanks to everyone for all your clicks and views over the last days and for every day you come
and see the blog. DFI is nothing without you!! 

we are all great fans so its fantastic you always come here and we hope you have as much fun reading the blog as we have doing it.Thank you!!

you will find the pics in our gallery as well!! please have a look...

Damian Lewis is receiving his OBE today at Buckingham Palace!

PS. Please stay tuned for news and updates here on DFI! 

DFI team wishes Damian Lewis a wonderful day tomorrow!

Gallery Announcement

We are VERY HAPPY to announce today that we created a Gallery for the Blog!!

You will see photos we love and photos we use here on the blog.

We named the gallery our favorites and you can see it on the right sidebar, please click the little album cover and you will be taken to the gallery, click on the photo you wish to see and it will
be enlarged... have fun and we hope you enjoy the gallery visit as we enjoy working on it!!

a very special thank you to Bahar who nannies me around when I come along with an idea like the gallery, she helps with technical stuff and most of all with a wonderful patience and her love!!

thank you Prof. I love you!!

a very special thanks to Atila (her husband) for the HTML stuff and most of all
for your time and generosity to help the Blog girls... THANK YOU!!  

last but not least thank you to all our readers as we can happily announce we
had 25 k views by today !! you are unbelievable!! 

THANK YOU 
your DFI team  

Freestyle Week

Welcome back and hello to our freestyle week which means no special topic
but since we feel very free and happy doing this blog with you and for you this week
we will write about stuff we like or things we think about as well as our favorite clips and
interviews from Damian Lewis and of course if any news pops up...you will hear and read it here :-)

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please notice that all the picture you will see for freestyle week are from damian-lewis.com

Autumn and Winter time...

Hello everybody....

now autumn has arrived and we are close to the best season of the year, so I hope
you will like our little design change and go with us through the cold but enjoyable
season and we promise to share a lot of stuff to warm cold winter days.

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we will have a lot of things to come up here on DFI like more character weeks news and we take a look at some Christmas recipes and of course we keep you update with news and beautiful things from Mr.Lewis stay tuned!!

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  you can also find that notice below every page you see here.thank you!! 

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Hope you enjoy your time with us on the blog. With your support, we reached 20K views last week, so thank you so much for all your support, and please come visit us again, and if you enjoy your visit here, please spread the word about us!

Please follow us on our official Twitter accounts for
news, information and retweets... you will read it there first :-)))

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THANK YOU!!

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