In an exclusive interview, the winning star of the Golden Globe discusses her incursion into music, why you are “never safe” how her deceased wife her first album

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He put his soul in lonely studies, sang in crowds in packaged festivals and dodged explosions in the epic of World War II. But still, nothing is more afraid of Damian Lewis than to the press in the West End.

The Golden Globe actor sat down for an exclusive interview with the editor: Chief of the Independent, Geordie Greig, after having recorded a Music Box consultation where he made songs from his first album, Mission Creep.

“There is a concern about the imposter’s syndrome, but at the same time I felt very comfortable and I think I appreciated it so much that I did not avoid thinking whether or not to [go for that],” Lewis said about his foray into the music industry.

“Life is short: I needed a pandemic to sit and write songs. And the experience of many people, I think, wondering how I would look at life after blocking. “

Lewis, 52, proved for the first time live music performances in Europe at the beginning of the twenties. But I knew that the game I was looking for to continue first, so music has become a hobby when it went to Glory as one of the main British actors through television, cinema and theater.

It happened as the greatest Richard Winters, in the dramatic series of Steven Spielberg, Band of Brothers. Many will know it as Nicholas Brody, the former military and prisoner of the American war in the mysterious spy home, for which he won an Emmy for the main actor in a dramatic series.

“I think it’s vital to say that I don’t suddenly expect Bruce Springsteen,” Lewis joked. “I have not stopped playing, I love it and I will continue doing it. But [music] feels different and I laughed a lot. “

He admitted that his first original song attempts were torn: “They were so terrible,” but although he discovered inspiration and is now being executed in an album at the moment.

“The core of a concept of a song can be deeply buried, and this first concept is extrapoling,” he said. “You can surprise where it ends. “

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Lewis naturally nervous, rising to the level as a professional musician for the first time. “There is the opportunity to create a character or be completely yourself, so there is one type of another pressure,” he said.

“I will say that there is nothing more scary than a press night at the West End or at the National Theater. Even for the first time. “

Regarding criticism, Lewis is an experienced professional and understands that an artist, in cinema, television, music or theater, is never safe when “a critic sharpens his pen and immerses the ink. “

“Even an attack on your functionality can be as devastating as a detailed evisceration of your own words,” he said. “If you need to offer it to the world, you must put your head over the parapet and say you may like or risk. And at that time, you will know more why you do it. “

The one who “two or 3 songs” on mission encouraged through their “magnificent and magnificent” defeat, the star of the glasses with Peaky Helen McCrory, which Lewis described as an “incredible” actor that everyone “worshiped and admired. “

McCrory died of a 52 -year -old breast cancer in 2021, since it has been a success at the level and screen on productions such as the queen’s film, James Bond Skyfall and the Harry Potter franchise.

“I wrote at the time of his illness, so there are two or 3 imbuedos songs by Helen, with her reminiscence and the concept of death and sadness,” Lewis said.

“The songs and albums are a bit like newspaper entries: they reflect the time you write. Therefore, it would have been if there was no something in this album that reflected this era of my life. But categorically it is not an unhappy album, or an album about Sorrow. “

He added: “There are many laughter and edifying songs, which I looked for: this variety, other types of musicality. And other people were enough to [notice those things there. “

Lewis’s album, Mission Creep, is now launched: his Music Box consultation will be broadcast in December. You can watch all live consultations on independent television.

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