There is also so much edge over him that years ago he was mentioned in the British media as a possible replacement for Daniel Craig when Craig stops in the role of James Bond.
That’s hardly how it goes.
Craig is now 52, ββand the new corona-delayed Bond film has just been postponed once again, this fall.
So Damian Lewis has the birth certificate against him when it comes to 007.
Lewis turns 50 on February 11, and at that age, it’s hard to give that gas as the world’s best secret agent.
Damian Lewis has otherwise proven himself as an actor who knows a bit of everything, also in movies and series with action.
And he is not afraid of himself professionally either. For example, he has not been pale in playing the late Hollywood star Steve McQueen.
Lewis did that in 2019 in the Tarantino film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.
He became seriously known internationally when he got the role of Major Richard Winters in a TV series starring director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks.
It is called “Band of Brothers” – in Danish “Comrades in War” – and is from 2001. The series is based on real events and is about a division of American soldiers in Europe during World War II.
Lewis is the commander of the soldiers, and here he shows for the first time that he masters the American accent.
Later he has been praised for his participation in series such as “Homeland” and “Billions”.
In addition to TV series and movies, he has also played theater, and the slanted boards were actually the ones he became an actor to tread on.
– I had no desire to be in movies or TV series, he said in April last year in an interview with the magazine GQ.
– I did not really go to the cinema, did not quite know what it was. It did not turn me on. I never really watched TV. We were not allowed to watch as much TV as children, very middle class.
After training as an actor, he also started in the theater in the early 1990s.
But soon he started getting roles on TV. And then the train ran.