The Reason I Jump: Jerry Rothwell, David Mitchell and Stevie Lee in Conversation with Damian Lewis / Jerry Rothwell, David Mitchell and Stevie Lee in Conversation with Damian Lewis - 92Y, New York
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The Reason I Jump

Jerry Rothwell, David Mitchell and Stevie Lee in Conversation with Damian Lewis
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At the age of 13, Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump, about his experience as a nonspeaking autistic child.

Now, director Jerry Rothwell has adapted Higashida’s book into an award-winning documentary – an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida’s revelatory insights into autism with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe.

Director Jerry Rothwell, author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), who co-translated Higashida’s book, and producer Stevie Lee join actor Damian Lewis (Homeland, Billions) for an illuminating conversation about the making of this extraordinary film.

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Damian Lewis

With an expansive list of diverse film, theatre and television credits, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Damian Lewis has evolved into one of this generation’s most respected and sought-after actors …

Damian Lewis

With an expansive list of diverse film, theatre and television credits, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Damian Lewis has evolved into one of this generation’s most respected and sought-after actors.

Lewis is currently playing Bobby “Axe” Axelrod in the highly successful Showtime series, Billions.

Upcoming, Lewis will be seen in in Dream Horse opposite Toni Collette, directed by Euros Lyn (Sherlock, Happy Valley, and Black Mirror) distributed in the United States by Bleecker Street, and by Warner Bros. in the UK; and starring in Brit Box’s upcoming spy thriller A Spy Among Friends opposite Dominic West.  Lewis will also serve as an executive producer on the six-part series, which is scheduled to debut in 2021.

Lewis is most notably known as Sergeant Nicholas Brody in Showtime’s critically acclaimed and award-winning television series Homeland, developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. Lewis’ performance earned him a 2013 Golden Globe Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama” and a 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series,” among other accolades. He received a 2013 Primetime Emmy nomination in the “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series” category on behalf of his performance in the series.

Lewis was seen in Wolf Hall, the critically acclaimed BBC Two/Masterpiece Theater six-part television miniseries adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker-Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, directed by BAFTA-winning Peter Kosminsky.  Lewis received a Golden Globe nomination in the “Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television” category on behalf of his performance in the series.

Lewis first came to the attention of American audiences in 2001 with his Golden Globe-nominated performance as World War II hero Richard Winters in the award-winning HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers,” directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Tom Hanks.

Lewis’ other film credits include Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert, The Silent Storm, Run This Town, Our Kind of Traitor, Carlo Carlei’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, David Gordon Green’s Your Highness, Rupert Wyatt’s The Escapist, Brides, Chromophobia, Keane, The Situation, Dreamcatcher, Stormbreaker and The Baker, which he also co-produced through his production company, Picture Farm.

Lewis’ other television and miniseries credits include the BAFTA-winning BBC miniseries Warriors, Hearts and Bones, Jeffrey Archer – The Truth, Colditz and BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told: Much Ado About Nothing.

Lewis made his Broadway debut in the role of Laertes in Hamlet opposite Ralph Fiennes. With many theater credits to his name, most notably he lead an outstanding ensemble with Keira Knightley, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald in the West End Comedy Theatre production of The Misanthrope, in addition to starring in American Buffalo on Broadway opposite Tom Sturridge and John Goodman, and most recently in the West End revival of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? opposite Sophie Okonedo.

Lewis resides in London.

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