It's all about TV

think it’s quite incredible how many shows I have watched over the years.  Maybe I am a TV, box set addict, maybe I just love a good show to get into, and wow there are so many!!  But it has occurred to me over the years of being a fan of Damian, just how many actors and actresses from other great shows have appeared with him.  Thankfully I have a wonderful app called IMBD on my phone, the many times I have sat with my husband watching something and said to him “I know that face, they have been in something with Damian” so I do a quick search and my question is answered.

The numerous shows I have watched with cross over characters is quite astounding just take a look.

The Walking Dead – Stared, Michal Cudlitz (Sgt Abraham) who played Mark Rolls in Life and also Sgt Denver in Band of Brothers

Breaking Bad – Stared Jonathan Banks (Mike Eharmantraut) who played Nathan Grey in Life

New Girl – Stars Max Greenfield (Shmidt) Who played Bradley Sloane in Life

Gotham – Stars Morena Baccarin (Dr Leslie Thompkins) who played Jessica Brody in Homeland

Friends – Stars David Shwimmer (Ross) who played Herbert Sobel in Band of Brothers

24 – Stars Sarah Clarke (Nina Myers) who played Mary Ann Farmer in Life

Blue Bloods – Stars Donnie Walberg (Detective Regan) who played Carwood in Band of Brothers and Duddits in Dream Catcher

My Family – Robert Lindsay (Ben Harper) who played William Sneath in Friends & Crocodiles

Mad Dogs – Ben Chaplin (Alvo) who played Trent in Chromophobia

Peaky Blinders – Tom Hardy (Alfie Solomons) Played Jack in Colditz

There are so many more the list is endless, and so many faces pop up from characters in Life! 

 Keep watching and download IMBD – I think its pretty amazing when you think about how many people have worked alongside Damian – that is just a small list but there are hundreds of actors and actresses who have stared in the same show!

And now with Billions on the horizon we can now add the following

How I met your mother – Malin Akerman (Movie Stella) who plays Lara Axelrod

Romeo & Juliet – Paul Giamatti (Friar Lawrence) who plays Chuck Rhoades

Suits – David Costablle (Daniel Hardman) who plays Mike

Sons of Anarchy (Tara) & Mad Men (Rachel)  - ( Mggie Siff ) who plays Wendy Rhodes

This just goes to show one thing! I CLEARLY WATCH FAR TOO MUCH TV

Happy Weekend

Damian interview extracts….

When Damian Lewis was in his second year of drama-school, he and two fellow-students took the boat to Amsterdam. Lewis (laughing): "Guess what we did there ... I still remember on the way over there we were sitting all three on deck in the middle of the night gazing at the stars and we shouted in a romantic way that we were the new generation of actors and we were going to change everything, 

stuff like that. I would like to say that that really happened, but I think it didn't quite go that way. ..."

He is self-confident, sexy and certainly not afraid of Hollywood but doesn't want to be "sold as the newest sportscar!" He refused a nice role in Black Hawk Down in favour of The Forsyte Saga.

For an actor it is always fun to play the bad guy. Was this also the case? "Soames has something petty and ugly, something I could only shake of with some alcohol at the end of the day. But I didn't hate him, if I did I couldn't have played him. In the book he is a complex personality; in the BBC-series from 1967 he was evil and Irene was only the victim. We wanted to show some more sides to him. Even if no one likes Soames -- he is a bastard, a racist, a sexist, a snob -- then still you should be able to understand his obsession for that woman and how it destroys his life."

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How Well Do You Know This Man?.....

Its Quiz time!
So can you tell us who Damian is playing in this picture and what film it is from. Quite the handsome Russian!
Answer is on Fridays Blog! Good Luck and don't forget you will find the answer in the Gallery at
www.damian-lewis.com

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Billions main cast...

The main cast is made of brilliance with Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti

as the main characters and with Maggie Siff and Malin Ackerman as their

leading Ladies completing the cast in this new Showtime series.

As Damian Lewis recently said in an Golderby interview its so enjoyable

to work with such great actors and for us as fansite its very enjoyable to

watch and witness all those wonderful projects and we are very excited for Billions.

Billions seems timely and on the pulse of time with people asking and worrying

about their money and about the question how trustful moneymakers are these days…

so with Billions Showtimes starts a new contemporary and probably provocative

series with an excellent cast.

Paul Giamatti as the clever and perhaps aggressive US Attorney Chuck Rhodes goes

after ambitious Hedge Fund King Bobby Axelrod and with Damian Lewis in this role

a cat and mouse game is on a very high level!!

With Maggie Siff as Wendy Rhoades there is another high acting caliber in the show

and Wendy seems an interesting female character with working as a coach

 with a psychological background and clients in the world of high finance.

Malin Ackerman completes the two couples match as Lara Axelrod the wife of Bobby

And even she comes from a lower background as a former nurse Miss Ackerman recently

described her role as a “ strong female character and a tough cookie”

Billions and especially the brilliant cast and crew in front and behind the camera

promise to be a very interesting and timely series with high quality scripts and top actors!

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Emma watching TV

 I think it’s quite incredible how many shows I have watched over the years.  Maybe I am a TV, box set addict, maybe I just love a good show to get into, and wow there are so many!!  But it has occurred to me over the years of being a fan of Damian, just how many actors and actresses from other great shows have appeared with him.  Thankfully I have a wonderful app called IMBD on my phone, the many times I have sat with my husband watching something and said to him “I know that face, they have been in something with Damian” so I do a quick search and my question is answered.

The numerous shows I have watched with cross over characters is quite astounding just take a look.

The Walking Dead – Stared, Michal Cudlitz (Sgt Abraham) who played Mark Rolls in Life and also Sgt Denver in Band of Brothers

Breaking Bad – Stared Jonathan Banks (Mike Eharmantraut) who played Nathan Grey in Life

New Girl – Stars Max Greenfield (Shmidt) Who played Bradley Sloane in Life

Gotham – Stars Morena Baccarin (Dr Leslie Thompkins) who played Jessica Brody in Homeland

Friends – Stars David Shwimmer (Ross) who played Herbert Sobel in Band of Brothers

24 – Stars Sarah Clarke (Nina Myers) who played Mary Ann Farmer in Life

Blue Bloods – Stars Donnie Walberg (Detective Regan) who played Carwood in Band of Brothers and Duddits in Dream Catcher

My Family – Robert Lindsay (Ben Harper) who played William Sneath in Friends & Crocodiles

Mad Dogs – Ben Chaplin (Alvo) who played Trent in Chromophobia

Peaky Blinders – Tom Hardy (Alfie Solomons) Played Jack in Colditz

There are so many more the list is endless, and so many faces pop up from characters in Life!  Keep watching and download IMBD – I think its pretty amazing when you think about how many people have worked alongside Damian – that is just a small list but there are hundreds of actors and actresses who have stared in the same show!

And now with Billions on the horizon we can now add the following

How I met your mother – Malin Akerman (Movie Stella) who plays Lara Axelrod

Romeo & Juliet – Paul Giamatti (Friar Lawrence) who plays Chuck Rhoades

Suits – David Costablle (Daniel Hardman) who plays Mike

Sons of Anarchy (Tara) & Mad Men (Rachel)  - ( Mggie Siff ) who plays Wendy Rhodes

This just goes to show one thing! I CLEARLY WATCH FAR TOO MUCH TV

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Bill from my view

What a fantastic film...... is what you would expect a 12 year old to say when they have watched Bill, the new film from the cast of horrible histories, but no this statement is coming from the mouths of not one but two 42 year old women.

On Friday 23rd September my best friend Andee (the ginger one) and I decided to ditch the shops and coffee houses we usually peruse on a Friday morning and hit the Vue cinema in Watford, as we walked into the empty theatre at 11.30 in the morning we purchased our two adult tickets to see the children film Bill, at first the guy selling the tickets thought we were joking but as we ordered our popcorn and bag of sweets, we both looked round and realised that we were the only people not only seeing the film but in the entire cinema.

We took our seats, which to be honest could have been any seat in the whole cinema, and waited to see the few minutes of Damian, playing Sir Richard Hawkins.  I don't want to spoil it for you as I think Damian's character is fantastic (ok maybe a little bias) but his character resembled that of King Henry in Wolf Hall - some may disagree but wait till you see it, there is a scene where he shouts at King Philip of Spain that actually sent a shiver through me.  The film itself is great full of humour and one liner jokes, its good for parents that have to sit through it and kids learn something too - I think Helen Mccory Plays a fantastic Queen Elizabeth and I totally respect her for the vile costume and facial hair and dry skin her character had to endure, its great that two great actors can laugh at themselves and I feel it was an incredibly enjoyable film to make and be part of.

One of the most hilarious scenes was the outtakes at the end where Sir Richard Hawkins goes from reminding me of Henry to more Brody in captivity!
Go see this film is my advice its well worth the laugh......

Quiz Wednesday Answer

So did you get it right? It was the 2011 TV film Stolen, DCI Anthony Carter

Stolen follows the story of one man, Anthony (Lewis), and three children.
Anthony works in the Human Trafficking Unit, battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children being smuggled into the UK and from there, to anywhere and to any fate.
Anthony has a wall of snapshots in his office of unknown children, children without passports, without identity, without family, without hope, who have been smuggled into this country to be enslaved and exploited: Rosemary 11, is a terrorised young girl from West Africa, who thought she was coming to England to be educated. She is sold as a house servant; Kim Pak, 15, is a gardener in a Vietnamese cannabis house, imprisoned in a semi in suburbia; Georgie, 14, from the Ukraine, is put to work in the food industry, making sandwiches.

If Anthony could save just one of those faces on his wall, it would be worth it. 

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I watched Stolen about a year ago and thought it was fantastic, it was just before Damian Lewis took on his role as Nicholas Brody, I bet when he was filming stolen he had no idea how his life would change over the next 4 years! EMMY, OBE and so many fantastic projects!

Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert

“My Dear , I want to see you but that of course can’t be until God pleases”

With Queen of the Desert German director Werner Herzog brings out a new major movie and

for sure again an epic film.  Academy nominee Werner Herzog is one of the best directors ever and has created many wonderful and special movies and we eagerly awaiting QOTD with Award winning actors Nicole Kidman and Damian Lewis as well as James Franco and Robert Pattinson

Queen of the Desert is the story of Gertrude Bell an English writer, traveler and archaeologist

who had great contacts and became highly influential she was often recalled as the female

Laurence of Aribia.

The film also reflects her love life as well and Gertrude Bell had an affair with a married man

Charles Doughty-Whiley!

Colonel Charles Doughty-Whiley was a man of high reputation who became besotted with Bell

But was married and felt unable to leave his wife for Gertrude and was captured in his

unhappy marriage and his responsibilities. Bell and Doughty-Whiley exchanged letters

about their feelings and you can read them in “Gertrude Bell The Arabian Diaries”

in April 1915 he lead soldiers on a very dangerous mission in Gallipoli and a Turkish bullet

killed him! Fellow soldiers noticed in surprise he didn’t had a weapon or anything else with him.

Was it the unconsumed love to Gertrude Bell who forced him to do that….who knows.

The film premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival and even Damian has a supporting

role, he earned a lot of praises for his performance of Charles Doughty-Whiley a man captured

in his marriage and his reputation but full of heartfelt love for Gertrude Bell.

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Quiz Quiz!!!!

Wow doesn't a week fly by?

Its Wednesday quiz day again and this week I have asked the lovely Sabrina to chose a film and character day, so this one has been chosen by her!

Can you name the Character Damian is playing here and what Film? The answer as always will be on Fridays blog so DONT MISS IT x

In the meantime if you log on to www.damian-lewis.com and go to the gallery, you'll find the answer there!

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Tea and a Mag....Yahoo News said:

Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti Give Us 2 Reasons to Watch 'Billions'

There are already two great reasons to watch Billions — specifically the leading men, Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. But a new teaser trailer for the series, which will premiere on Showtime in early 2016, gives us a billion more reasons to be excited for this financial world drama. Those reasons include timely subject matter, beautiful New York cinematography, and glimpses at a supporting cast that includes Malin Akerman and Maggie Siff. Oh yeah, and it also boasts one of the best lines of dialogue we’ve heard all year. Toward the end of the trailer, Lewis says, “What’s the point of having f–k you money if you never say ‘F–k you’?” (Did we mention that the trailer is most definitely NSFW?)

Billions stars Giamatti as an ambitious U.S. Attorney who makes it his personal mission to bring down Lewis’s business magnate, Bobby Axelrod. It’s an admirable goal, but also a foolhardy one as Axelrod has friends in high places and a general disregard for government. If a mere minute of watching these two Emmy-winning acting titans go toe-to-toe is this much fun, just imagine how great 12 one-hour episodes will be.  

Billions will premiere on Showtime in early 2016.   

Inspired by Music book...Damian Lewis

"When I was a child, we used to spend summers in a beautiful big country house in Norfolk near Hunstanton. There was an attic that my brother and I would escape to and listen to music.

 They were summers full of the sounds of Madness (the first time round) and The Beatles (not the first time round). I was about ten. In truth, I might easily choose any one of their songs but as I sat daydreaming, looking out of the attic window, one song not so much inspired me as always haunted me and that song was Eleanor Rigby. As a young boy, it was a collection of sounds and images only. 

But even then, at the age of ten, it was startling to hear a song open with a choral: "Ah, look at all the lonely people." Even more startling to hear that Eleanor "wears the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ...." Now of course as I sit daydreaming and staring out of windows, something I am almost always doing when sitting at my desk, the song has a clear resonance: it is a song about solitude, but more tellingly, loneliness. 

It is a beautiful song charged with a pulsing melancholy. As a ten-year-old, I would listen quite literally to the lines: "All the lonely people, where do they all come from, All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" Now when I lsten to them, I think more of how terrible loneliness is. That no one should be allowed to be lonely. That no one should be buried "... along with their name." The most important thing we can do is interact with one another. To embrace one another with all our faults. It comes with frustrations, sure. But nothing is as awful as loneliness."

Meet the Axelrod's

So far we can see a strong, aggressive and very strong character (ok sexy too, I know your thinking it) emerging from the new show Billions.  Like me I am sure you cannot wait to have it hit your TV screens in the new year, some of you are luckier than others as you will see it before us, but come January I am sure the tweets will be coming in thick and fast on how much we love this new Damian Lewis character.   I can't believe how quickly its coming round till the big day, well night, we have a couple of months then Christmas and before we know where we are Billions will be on - Hooray I hear you say, or was that just the happy Damian place in my head screaming lol.

So what else do we think we can expect from this wonderful new character.  Rich, er yes well thats an obvious one, strong and aggressive? well again we can see this from the trailer too, Bobby seems to not care what he says or even who he says it to, but one thing we have not yet looked into is him being a Family man..... Bobby has a family a wife and kids, two boys..... Will they have the Axelrod attitude or will they be sweet kind boys... It seems that his wife is feisty and not afraid to say how she feels so something tells me that the Axelrod boys won't be the sweet little kids that the Rohdes family  seem to have.  

I am really looking forward to  meeting our new family, the last family we had to get used to were the  dis functional Brody's and now we are about to meet the Axelrod's, possibly as dis functional but who cares I cannot wait.................

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American Buffalo and Emma:-)

So its now months ago since American Buffalo shut its tatty doors of the junk shop that was owned by Don Dubrow. I already miss the characters Don, Bob and of course Teach.  Before American Buffalo I have to be honest that although I have seen Damian Lewis in pretty much every TV show and film he has don,  this was the very first time I have seen him live on stage acting, and I have to say I was blown away.

Damian Lewis is an amazing actor, no I have not just stated the obvious, I am merely confirming what we all know! But on stage he is sensational, John Goodman and Tom Sturidge were also great in the play, but when Damian performed it was like the whole audience were captivated by him.

 Teach is a great character and I don’t think anyone else would be good for that role.  American Buffalo has been a large part of my life this year, when I booked the tickets with my partner in crime Sabrina back in December (I think) I had no idea back then how much a part of my life the Damian lewis fan blog is, how big the site has become and of course how lucky I am to have such an amazing friend like Sabrina to share this great journey with.  I am so excited about seeing Damian on stage again and after Billions I hope we don't have to wait too long…...

Quiz Answer

So did you get it right??? The answer was Hearts and Bones.

A TV Drama about a group of friends who move from Coventry in the Midlands of England to London, Damian Lewis stars along side well know actresses, Amanda Holden and Sarah Parish as well as many other well known actors.  Damian Stars with Sarah Parish again in Shakespeare Re told, Much a Do about Nothing only a few years later.  Damian Character is called Mark Rose who is Married to Emma however is really in love with Marks brother Richard who is played by Hugo Spear.  I enjoyed watching the 2 series made, although dated it has a good story line and shows that Damian not only can act on the big screen he is great as a down to earth every day character too.

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NR.10 or Prime Minister Simon Laity

Number 10 was a series made for BBC radio and had a brilliant script and idea.

As I told you before I love audio books and radio drama series and this is a well

made radio drama with fabulous speakers and a edgy script written by Jonathan Myerson

and produced by Cliff Brill.

Number 10. is a series about a fictional prime minister and his staff.

Its very well played and Damian Lewis came on board this radio drama in its third

season speaking or playing Simon Laity a politician who wants to become the new prime

minister for the labour party and after season three Simon Laity moves in to Number 10.

as the new Prime Minister.

Simon Laity is not only the new Prime Minister but he’s also gay a fact that is unfortunately

still something that could hinder you to get the well paid jobs and the important political

leadership positions but Simon Laity gets it and moves into Downing Street together with

his partner and by the end of season four the relationship becomes a new level

because of certain circumstances and you witness moving and caring dialogs as well as

aggressive arguments a partnership inhabits when it’s on the edge and one of the two

has to make a decision…

Number 10 is timely , interesting and a pleasure to listen to!

Do You Know Damian??

Its Quiz Time!!!! Who is Damian Playing here and what series is it?
The answer will be revealed on Fridays Blog so stay tuned......

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Tea and a Mag

Tea and Mag

  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!"

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