Greater than a yr after he introduced his exit from Showtime’s monetary drama, Damian Lewis’ return to Billions has been confirmed.
The Emmy winner will reprise his function as Bobby “Axe” Axelrod within the upcoming seventh season, Showtime has revealed. He’ll seem in six of the season’s 12 episodes; Season 7 is slated to air later this yr. Moreover, Toney Goins, who performs Philip on the sequence, has been promoted to sequence common.
In Season 7, “alliances are turned on their heads. Previous wounds are weaponized. Loyalties are examined. Betrayal takes on epic proportions. Enemies turn out to be cautious associates. And Bobby Axelrod returns, because the stakes develop from Wall Avenue to the world,” per the official community synopsis.
Lewis was noticed on set final November capturing scenes outdoors the Tower of London alongside fellow solid members Maggie Siff and David Costabile. The photographs had been followers’ first tip that the Billions vet may truly be returning.
Within the Season 5 finale, Bobby went on the lam in Switzerland to flee the authorized attain of Paul Giamatti’s State Lawyer Common Chuck Rhoades. Mentioned Axelrod to rival billionaire Mike Prince (performed by Corey Stoll), who now owns all of his corporations: “So that is what it’s to lose.”
On the time of his exit, Lewis mentioned his five-season run as Axe was “simply essentially the most time I’ve spent enjoying one character,” and as such, each permutation of Axe-versus-Chuck had been explored. “It’s tough to maintain mining, creatively,” the Homeland alum mentioned. “We all know who he’s.”
The English actor continued: “There’s a possibility perhaps for me to return. However for now, broadly talking, Axe has been vanquished.”
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