Actor Damian Lewis announces his new career direction into music with She Comes, and a music video courtesy of colleagues from his projects in TV drama - in particular, DoP Jake Polonsky and director Nick Murphy.

Filmed in the Master Shipwright's House in Deptford - one of the few remaining parts of Deptford’s former royal dockyard, built in the early 18th century and now fully restored - the result is a performance video where Murphy and Polonsky  maximise the character of the space to reflect the emotional weight of the song.

Lewis has said that She Comes "is the first song I wrote for my debut album, so that makes it... my first song - that I've shared with the world, at any rate. It’s about ghosts, and one ghost in particular." Although he does not mention her directly, its hard to imagine that he is not referring to his late wife, the actor Helen McCrory, who died of cancer in 2021.

In the video he starts the song on his own, on a staircase in the house. Other people pass him on the stairs - they are the band, and soon they are together, performing in a large empty wood-lined room. It's a fine setting to showcase Lewis's undoubted musical talent, presented with elegance by Jake Polonsky - who shot several seasons of Lewis's hit HBO show Billions, having started his career in cinematography shooting numerous promos - and Nick Murphy, who directed the recent TV movie A Spy Among Friends, in which Lewis starred.

For the grade, Polonsky and producer Phil Tidy called upon another master craftsman who originally made his name in music videos - Simone Grattarolla, senior colourist at Time Based Arts, sealing the shift in tone between the brightness of the band in performance, and shots of Lewis in more reflective moments in the shadows.

About the video Damian Lewis adds: “We hoped to convey the feeling of an abandoned house, of the ghost of the woman that once lived there and a group of friends gathering to celebrate her.”