Damian Lewis: Someone put flowers at my feet and I realised it was my stalker'

"Taking a helicopter to Royal Ascot. That is one of the poshest things I have done. I became aware of how posh it was when I started calming down and realised I wasn't going to fall out of it. There's a scene in which you spit an hors d'oeuvre squarely at Katherine Waterston. How many takes did you need to get it right? Thirty-three. But that's because I asked for 20 more just because I was enjoying it."

"Well, I had a stalker. We had an injunction on her and I thought that everything was safe and then I was on stage doing a press night in the West End and someone stood up out of the front row and put flowers at my feet and I realised it was my stalker. My blood froze. I wish I could have a nicer one!"

"I think it was selling overcoats at Burberry. I kinda got fired because I was not very good at it. I was conning people into wearing the wrong size raincoats and telling them that it was the fashion, and they were really too big or really too small. And then I got found out. I just did it for the badness of it. I had that job for about three weeks."

He took a helicopter to Royal Ascot and only realized how posh it was while calming down and noticing he would not fall out. He enjoyed filming a scene where he spat an hors d'oeuvre at Katherine Waterston, requiring thirty-three takes and once hitting her in the face. He experienced a stalker who breached an injunction by appearing at a West End press night and placing flowers at his feet. He worked briefly selling Burberry overcoats, got fired for encouraging customers to wear incorrect sizes, enjoys garden cricket with his son, and repeatedly returns to Withnail and I.

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