No, Damian Lewis is not looking to retrain for lack of obtaining roles: if the British actor led a few sheep onto the Southwark Bridge on Sunday September 29, 2024, it was simply to revive a medieval London tradition, reports BFMTV.
You should know that in the Middle Ages, any person with the status of “free man” or “citizen” of the City, the business district of the capital, was granted the right to go and sell their flock. in the markets north of the Thames without paying the then current toll.
To revive this medieval tradition, nearly a thousand British people – including Damian Lewis – crossed this bridge with their animals, as has been done every year for fifteen years at the initiative of the “Honourable Woolworkers’ Guild”. », founded in 1180.
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The 53-year-old actor was completely legitimate in his approach, since he himself holds the status – now symbolic – of “free man”, formerly associated with the merchants and confederations of London. He described this day as “eccentric and very British”, underlines BFMTV.
