Homeland's Damian Lewis struggled to balance two roles on A Spy Among Friends
, Lewis rose to the challenge, using"two very different" parts of his personality to complete the tasks.
"The question is interesting, because actually it's the first time I've taken on a full-on production producer role and played a lead role. There is a point where you just have to put everything down, and concentrate on playing Nicholas Elliott. Otherwise you're going to sell yourself short," he explained.
"It's quite interesting, they are two very different parts of your personality that you pull up for those different roles. And there is always a childlike – not child-ish, hopefully – but a childlike, playful quality that you have to remain in touch with when you're acting. You just have to. That's perhaps why it takes us longer to grow up than others.
"But when you're producing, it requires something else – a different part of your brain. It's sometimes quite hard to do it at the same time. So I found myself for the duration of the five or six months' shoot just performing and acting, and then I was able to be a producer again on the last six, seven, eight months when we've been in postproduction.
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