 Lewis worked with director Giles MacKinnon twice in 2002.Revenge thriller "The Escapist", which featured Lewis in the role of Ron, was followed by a turn as Detective Inspector French in the crime drama "Pure".He went to Rome's Cinecittà Studios to join the ensemble cast of Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York", an epic tale of gang warfare among the lower classes in 1860s New York City.