(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Lewis feels his elite upbringing at Eton College makes him the ideal candidate for the role.
The 43-year-old Damian Lewis who is best known for portraying Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in Homeland is set to star as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall a BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel.
Lewis feels his elite upbringing at Eton College makes him the ideal candidate for the role. “The more I read about him the more I was happy - and alarmed - to find that I did share character traits with him” said Lewis.
“I suppose everyone else will be the judge of it but certainly sitting in the clothes it feels like a canny piece of casting because I do find similarities between myself and him.
“I think there’s no question it helps having had the kind of schooling that I’ve had to play a King. Just the way the sort of court structure hierarchies the way they’re set up it’s something I feel I implicitly understand” he added.