Damian Lewis gets dressing down from journalist after abruptly walking out of interview

Damian Lewis near 1 writer incredulous erstwhile helium chopped an interrogation abbreviated unexpectedly.

The British histrion and musician, 53, was doing property to beforehand the instrumentality of BBC’s humanities play Wolf Hall aft astir 10 years.

Lewis portrays well-known Tudor monarch King Henry VIII successful the series, which besides stars Sir Mark Rylance, 64, arsenic Thomas Cromwell.

However, it appears helium wasn’t truthful keen to instrumentality astir chatting, arsenic a Radio Times interviewer discovered.

‘So this is simply a first,’ the write-up from newsman Ginny Dougary began. ‘My interviewee has walked out.

‘Not successful a flounce oregon successful uncontrolled choler but dormant casually, arsenic though it’s nary existent biggy.’

Dougary went connected to acceptable the scene, explaining that the one-hour interrogation was agreed successful penning and to beryllium done remotely with cameras connected truthful the work could usage video clips to beforehand Wolf Hall’s revival.

Lewis, however, joined the telephone 10 minutes precocious with his camera off. When Dougary asked if helium would caput making up the clip astatine the end, helium informed her that would not beryllium happening.

She besides wrote: ‘As a substance of fact, arsenic helium mentioned conscionable earlier the interrogation started, helium volition person to “bail” 15 minutes early, thereby cutting our agreed clip by fractional (reduced yet further erstwhile helium pulls the plug).’

Dougary branded Lewis ‘cunning’ for doing truthful connected the spot, erstwhile not overmuch could beryllium done to rectify the situation.

She went connected to comparison the traits evident successful Lewis’s behaviour with those of Henry VIII, forcing her to question whether it was ‘method acting successful reverse’.

Although, Dougary noted that Peter Kosminsky, whom she had besides interviewed earlier successful the day, behaved acold much ‘reasonably’.

Reciting immoderate of the things that near her with a sour sensation aft chatting to Lewis, she shared that helium asked her to set her camera positioning, due to the fact that helium ‘wasn’t happy’ with it.

‘That’s better,’ helium past told her.

Before speaking to Lewis, she asked manager Wolf Hall manager Kosminsky what the relevance of King Henry VIII is successful 2024.

He replied: ‘Damian should astir apt talk since he’s playing Henry…’

When she enactment this question to Lewis, though, it didn’t instrumentality agelong for him to ‘turn’.

‘Well, I deliberation that idiosyncratic arsenic historically important arsenic Henry VIII volition ever stay significant,’ helium told Dougary, adding: ‘Unless your question is suggesting specified an un-woke quality arsenic Henry VIII, changeable done a benignant of modern prism, should nary longer beryllium connected TV?’

‘But I’d evidently person to cull that idea,’ helium declared.

Lewis went connected to profess his emotion of past and however helium ‘read extensively’ astir the Tudor play successful mentation for the role.

Alas, erstwhile quizzed connected his idiosyncratic beliefs, helium refused to elaborate.

He told the publication: ‘I was precise wide that I wasn’t doing immoderate profiles and it’s starting to consciousness a spot similar a profile, truthful I’m going to leap off.’

And, well, that was that.

When the mag portion surfaced online, readers branded Dougary’s takedown of Lewis ‘brutal’.

Others called Lewis ‘pompous’, portion connected Threads idiosyncratic said that portion Lewis’s acting is ‘fantastic’ helium ‘does look similar a p***k’.

Lewis’s half-interview comes aft the BBC confirmed Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light would beryllium returning to screens.

The archetypal bid was a large occurrence and received 8 nominations astatine the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, arsenic good arsenic 3 astatine the 73rd Golden Globes.

Commencing connected Sunday, November 10, the 2nd six-parter adapts Hilary Mantel’s 3rd Wolf Hall book, 2020’s The Mirror and Light.

Watch Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light connected Sunday, November 10 connected BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

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