A bizarre set of circumstances binds four people together in a situation that takes friendly neighbours to the extreme in 3’s hit police drama series Life, screening Monday, February 11th at 8:30pm on 3.
Life features a lead character, Charlie Crews, who, despite having been wrongfully imprisoned for more than a decade, has managed to go back to the world with much joy and hope.
Apparently, it was this unexpected optimism that drew actor Damian Lewis to the role.
“I thought it was an interesting point to start out from… having such a dark, bleak back story… approaching life with such optimism and joy, a sense of every moment being lived intensely and fully,” Lewis told Boston Now.
“I enjoyed the contradiction there, I enjoyed that he had found an antidote to his experience. He could be bitter, he could be vengeful, but he's not, he chooses to be open and enthusiastic.”
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