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Damian Lewis showed off his quirky sense of style as he joined a slimmed-down Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott at the Pressure premiere in London on Tuesday night.
The actor, 55, - who plays Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the WW2 drama -wore a tartan tux and dark shades as he posed with his co-stars at the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square.
Meanwhile Brendan, 57, looked fit and healthy in a dark suit as he chatted to Damian and Andrew, 49, on the blue carpet.
Brendan stars as Dwight D Eisenhower in the new war epic – as his Hollywood comeback thunders ahead.
The new movie centers on Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander, laying his plans for D-Day in the 72 hours leading up to the attack.
Eisenhower is shown racked with anxiety after the failure of Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the Normandy landings that ended in a bloodbath.
Damian Lewis showed off his quirky sense of style as he joined a slimmed-down Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott at the Pressure premiere in London on Tuesday night
The actor, 55, - who plays Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in the WW2 drama - wore a tartan tux and dark shades as he posed with his co-stars at the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square
To prevent another catastrophe, he turns to Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg - played by Andrew - to predict the weather conditions on D-Day.
'This is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The fate of the war, thousands of lives hinge on this,' says Eisenhower in the trailer, instructing Stagg: 'I need a forecast.'
Pressure features Homeland star Damian as Field Marshal and Kerry Condon as Eisenhower's wartime secretary Kay Summersby.
Chris Messina of The Mindy Project fame has been cast as American meteorologist Irving P Krick, who also participated in the D-Day planning.
Krick and Stagg clash with each other in the trailer, which shows the American sublimely confident of 'calm and sunny' conditions while his British opposite number warns the brass: 'We are faced with a succession of two aggressive storms.'
As tension mounts and the appointed hour approaches, Montgomery is seen issuing the proclamation: 'If D-Day is canceled, we will lose this war.'
Even a 'delay' would, in Montgomery's view, lead to a state of affairs in which 'the enemy will be ready and waiting. They'll slaughter every single last one of us.'
Eisenhower erupts at Stagg, wondering why he should 'trust' the scientist with the lives of '300,000 men with families that they may never see again'.
The new movie centers on Eisenhower (played by Brendan) as Supreme Allied Commander, laying his plans for D-Day in the 72 hours leading up to the attack
It also features Homeland star Damien as Field Marshal (seen) and Kerry Condon as Eisenhower's wartime secretary Kay Summersby
Meanwhile Brendan, 57, looked fit and healthy in a dark suit as he chatted to Damian and Andrew, 49, on the blue carpet
Brendan stars as Dwight D. Eisenhower in the new war epic - as his Hollywood comeback thunders ahead
Damian wore a green and blue tartan tux for the occasion
The trio posed for snaps together at the premiere in Leicester Square
He added dark shades to the look and wore a light blue shirt under the tartan jacket
To prevent another catastrophe, he turns to Royal Air Force meteorologist James Stagg - played by Andrew (seen)- to predict the weather conditions on D-Day
He looked smart in a navy suit and red shirt
The two co-stars chatted away on the blue carpet
Damian and Brendan were seen having an animated conversation
The movie was released in America on May 29 and will come out in cinemas in the UK on September 11
'We must face the facts - the facts, however frightening they may be!' Stagg insists. 'The storms that I am talking about are real, and the wrath of nature is real.'
Pressure is the latest movie by Australian film-maker Anthony Maras, who previously made the 2018 thriller Hotel Mumbai about a 2008 jihad attack in India, starring such names as Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Jason Isaacs and Bollywood icon Anupam Kher.
Maras co-wrote the screenplay of Pressure with English playwright David Haig, who penned the 2014 stage show on which the new picture is based.
The movie was released in America on May 29 and will come out in cinemas in the UK on September 11.
Pressure marks the latest step in Fraser's Hollywood renaissance, which began with The Whale, his first Hollywood project in nearly a decade.
Helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, The Whale saw Fraser disappear into the role of a wheelchair-bound 600lb gay man.
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