Damian Lewis

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Damian Lewis is the British actor you usually hear using an American accent on television. The star of the hit show “Billions” first made a name for himself playing an American soldier on HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” before he went on to shake up television with his Emmy and Golden Globe winning performance as Sergeant Nick Brody on “Homeland.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” the actor talks to Willie Geist about his in-depth preparation for his current role as ruthless hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod, including studying real-life Wall Street titans. It turns out Lewis has also learned a mean game of ping pong in his downtime on the set, so he challenged Willie to a friendly match.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here.
0:02.0	You're listening to another episode of the Sunday Sitdown podcast.
0:05.8	I have to thank you so much for the response.
0:08.4	We put it out last week.
0:10.4	Five episodes beginning with Bill Murray on the two year anniversary of my show
0:14.6	Sunday Today on NBC.
0:17.4	Didn't know what was going to happen.
0:18.5	Loved it out there.
0:20.1	Get the full conversation of our interviews that you see on TV that are seven or eight
0:24.3	minutes.
0:24.7	We give you the full sit down interview.
0:26.8	Not the edited version comes out to be 30 minutes, 45, whatever it is.
0:31.4	And this week I say, let me check out Apple podcast and see how we did.
0:36.8	And I scroll down.
0:37.7	Maybe we're in the top 100.
0:39.0	I scroll.
0:39.4	I scroll.
0:40.0	I don't see it.
0:40.6	I go, man, well, that sucks.
0:42.6	We're not in the top 100.
0:44.1	So I go back to the top.
0:45.3	We were number one.
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