Senior Military Advisor Capt. Dale Dye and Matthew Settle, who plays Capt. Ronald Speirs, join host Roger Bennett to relive one of the series’ most combat-heavy episodes. Capt. Dye, who also plays Col. Sink in the series, opens up about his total immersion method that transformed actors into members of Easy Company. And Settle discusses his portrayal of the mythologized, enigmatic and unflinchingly fearless Capt. Speirs, and what it was like to play some of the series’ most haunting scenes. Join bestselling military historian Damien Lewis in this online talk, and discover the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldiers in the Second World War. Damian Watcyn Lewis CBE (born 11 February 1971) is a British actor, musician and producer. He is best known for portraying U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. [ citation needed] He won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, and nominations for both for his performance as Henry VIII of England in Wolf Hall. He portrayed Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime series Billions in six out of seven seasons, and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as actor Steve McQueen.

He played Jeffrey Archer in the TV special Jeffrey Archer: The Truth. Since 2004, he has appeared in a number of films, as well as the 2005 BBC TV adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing, as part of the ShakespeaRe-Told season. Lewis played the role of Yassen Gregorovich in the film Stormbreaker. In 2006, he appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC drama Friends and Crocodiles. He has appeared on BBC's Have I Got News for You as guest host several times; on 10 November 2006, 1 May 2009, 18 November 2010, 27 April 9 November 2012 and 31 October 2014. [ citation needed] Truly revelatory. The SAS at their very finest in WWII, and after, hunting down the Nazi war criminals.’‘Billy’ Billingham There are good war movies. But this stands out, because not only is there no fiction whatsoever, but because, as a miniseries, more time is available to get to know the characters, and follow their progress, to know them, to love them, to mourn them. As much as it’s about the closeness of a group of men who witness and perpetrate terrible things in the name of freedom, Band of Brothers is most often about the chaos, moral grey areas and emotional turmoil in which Easy Company find themselves. Rather than seeing the war as a coherent interplay of tactics seen from a bird’s-eye perspective, it’s a hardscrabble quest to survive hour-to-hour, in which chance plays as great a role as training. Mottram, James. Damian Lewis interview with Marie Claire, 25 February 2008. accessed 14 January 2009.Fortunately, Spielberg had seen Lewis in Hamlet on Broadway, playing Laertes. The actor clung to this scrap until Spielberg and Hanks began to peel away. “Steven’s off to watch his kid play soccer,” Lewis later wrote. “I want to tell him it’s called ‘football’. Probably not the best time, though. Tom has to go to buy a Christmas tree with his daughter. They leave.” Ron Livingston, who plays Capt. Lewis Nixon, joins host Roger Bennett to reflect on Band of Brothers‘ first episode. Ron reveals his research process to portray the enigmatic S-2 Intelligence Officer, the way he surprised Tom Hanks during his audition, and the total immersion the entire cast underwent during a 10-day actor bootcamp (which had them train like actual 1940s paratroopers).

In 2010, Lewis became a trade justice ambassador for the charity Christian Aid. [34] In May 2006 and June 2018, he played for England in Soccer Aid, and played golf for Europe in the All*Star Cup in August 2006, both shown on ITV. [ citation needed] Staff. "BBC Media Centre Programme Information – Afternoon Drama: Number 10". Bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 21 March 2013.As the release date has already been announced (by the end of 2022 or 2023), we can anticipate the promotional teaser or trailer to be released 2-3 months after the official release date. As a child, Lewis made several visits to the US to visit relatives during summer breaks. [10] [11] He first decided to become an actor at the age of 16. [5] Welcome to That One Scene , a semi-regular series in which Task & Purpose writers wax nostalgic about that one scene from a beloved (or hated) military movie or show.

Are the rumours about Masters Of The Air ( Band Of Brothers third sequel) true? Can we expect the third season any time soon? Well, come along, let’s try and figure out what the scenario is like! Instead, Winters tells his commanding officer, “I request trial by court-martial,” before rendering a crisp salute and exiting the room with a sharp about-face. DAY 9: We visit RAF Brize Norton for a day in jumping school. Today I’m going to jump off a 60ft tower screaming from the top of my lungs ‘One thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand. . .’ After this, you’re supposed to open you chute. Looking up, the platform doesn’t seem so high. Looking down, I want to cry. I can’t hold on to anything because I can’t get any grip. My palms are sweating too heavily. A jump trainer edges me out. I look straight ahead at the horizon and leap into the void. I land about five seconds later. I’ve done it. Parachuting becomes addictive. Apparently.From 2011 to 2013, Lewis had a starring role as Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland. [25] In 2013, he narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an "interactive anthology of love literature developed by Allie Byrne Esiri". [26]

Damian Lewis on grief, espionage and his new musical ambitions: 'When someone dies prematurely, you're left careering in a different direction' ". Guardian. 29 October 2022 . Retrieved 2 November 2022. Shane Taylor, the actor responsible for one of the tenderest performances of the series as medic Eugene Roe, joins host Roger Bennett to talk the contradiction of being tasked with preserving life in a warzone. Plus, how the Englishman developed his Cajun accent, and Roe’s relationship with Belgian nurse Renée Lemaire. The series Band of Brothers has come to signify the courage and sacrifice of those who took part in World War II – and will form part of the fabric of the story of humanity. Walk in the footsteps of Easy Company 506 – the real Band of Brothers – for the 20th anniversary of the epic HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.Stephen McCole, who played Winters’s unpopular successor, ‘Moose’ Heyliger, told the Dead Eyes podcast that he found himself “getting ghosted left right and centre”. He added: “Not just on screen, but when we were sitting around waiting, having cups of tea, anything like that – people were just riding me, treating me like s–t. I thought, ‘F–k these guys. I f—–g cannot stand this job. I want it to end.’” Paratroopers, as a whole, can’t stand exaggeration,” Jendresen said. “If somebody says there was three feet of snow at Bastogne [a Belgian town laid siege by German forces in December 1944], they’ll say, ‘No, there wasn’t. It was, like, 18 inches.’” Once filming started, that closeness made things harder for anyone outside of Easy Company. Andrew Scott remembered the atmosphere being “awful”. Dominic Cooper had a small part in the first episode, and found the intensity of it all so overwhelming he nearly quit acting altogether.