Life’s Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi’s interview
By fred | December 6, 2007
Last night on NBC aired the second episode of the week of the fantastic series that is Life. The show is more than awesome, I love it, and unfortunately for me I still haven’t had a chance to watch it myself. I can’t wait to get to do so tonight, I literally cannot wait, but meanwhile here’s a little interview with the two main character on the show, Damian Lewis who plays Charlie Crews and Sarah Shahi who plays Dani Reese.
This show is really the best new series of the season and simply one of the best series out there, and if you haven’t watched it yet because you didn’t find the basis of the show - a cop spending 12 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit going back to work - or thought it was just another cop drama with a twist, you should absolutely reconsider.
This show is so much more than words can say, the writing is excellent, the stories are great and the characters are some of the best on television. It is an absolute must-see. Jee, I just can’t wait to see that last episode, why can’t time go faster some times ?…
Anyways, here is a nice little interview with the two leads of the show, talking about, well, the show and the conspiracy of course, the strike and how it affected them, and a few other things. Warning: If you haven’t watch the last episode yet, there might be a little spoiler about what will happen.
Damian, I’d kind of guessed - thought that maybe you’d be out of scripts by now and that you’d be able to get like a vacation back home in England for a while. Are you guys still filming at this point?
Lewis: Well we’re not filming anymore. We were affected by the strike. We were able to complete 11 episodes. The order was for 13. When the strike’s over, now that we’ve been picked up, we’ll come back and - no sorry, the strike is not over. When the strike is over, we will come back and complete those. And then continue to film the back nine that is - those have been picked up. So it’s been, you know, the hours are intense in network TV. I was warned about it and it’s true, so it’s been a lovely little break. But I’m equally glad that the issues are being resolved and we can all get back to work.
Okay, but you weren’t tempted to just go back to England, take a long vacation…
Lewis: Yeah, have you seen the weather in England this time of year?
Good point, yeah.
Lewis: I’m putting sun cream on and walking about in my shorts.
Sarah… this two-parter here creates some real complications because it seems to get thicker with your father being involved in the thing. Were you surprised by that development when you started the series? Did you know how intimately your character’s father was going to be involved in the whole thing ?
Shahi: I didn’t know. I didn’t have an idea. I knew that, you know, ultimately Reese does have a choice to make but I wasn’t really sure what that choice would be. And, you know, every week as the scripts came out, more information was being divulged to us and we were just as excited as maybe the audience members sitting at home watching it for the first time. So I didn’t have any clue when we started, and it’s been quite nice. And I hope, if anything, that shit hits the fan.
I wonder if you could talk - both of you - a little bit more about the whole conspiracy storyline in your show? Any hints you can give us about how much will be resolved when and also what’s going on with the ex-wife ?
Shahi: I’m not Rachel, I’ll tell you that.
Lewis: You’re not who?
Shahi: I’m not Rachel.
Lewis: Okay, who is Rachel? I heard someone thought it was Dani Reese. Maybe it will be…
Shahi: A few people have told me - they’ve come up to me and they’ve said you’re Rachel aren’t you? And I said no, I’m not Rachel. So there’s your first clue.
Lewis: It’s a spooky thing. You know, a lot of the conspiracy story is explored in the upcoming two episodes. And I think what’s becoming apparent about the conspiracy is that it’s a multi-layered onion and we will need to keep peeling away that onion in order to get to the powerhouse - the people driving the conspiracy at the center of the story. By the end of Episode 11, we make a big, big discovery and it’s very exciting. But it will only take us on to a new level, I think, after that.
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very interesting.
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