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 Daniel Day-Lewis
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Daniel Day-Lewis is undoubtedly one of the most skilled actors in the world, after making his mark in a string of films. These are The Last Of The Mohicans, The Age Of Innocence, In The Name Of The Father, which he got an Oscar nomination for, and My Left Foot, which not only gave him his breakthrough film role, but his sole Oscar for Best Actor. If Day-Lewis seemed to have a lower profile since the mid-1990’s, it’s not out of anything other than his own control and desire. While his output has become fewer and more far-between in the years since, he’s an actor who continues to make an enormous impact on every film he’s made, including The Crucible, The Boxer, The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, and Gangs Of New York, the last giving him his third Best Actor Oscar nod. Now Daniel has made his return in his latest film, the drama There Will Be Blood, inspired by the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!. He plays the role of Daniel Plainview, a Texas oil prospector. When we spoke with the now 50 year-old classically-trained actor, Day-Lewis first shared how he was moved to participate in There Will Be Blood by the extraordinary complexities of Plainview. “I didn’t really see him as a miserable prick, but I guess the challenge is the same as it always is, which is to try and discover a life that isn’t your own,” Daniel states, “And in Plainview, as it came to me, Paul’s beautiful script, was a man whose life I didn’t understand at all. It was a life that was completely mysterious to me and that unleashed a fable of curiosity, which I had no choice, but forseeably.” “Just a man trying to make a living, you know,” he adds, “I’m not really the best person to say this, but I believe see the seeds of a man you meet at the end and the man you meet at the beginning, but Daniel, to me, goes through a fatherly transformation. It never occurred to me to think that his journey is a short one.” With Plainview being an oil prospector that existed during the early days of the oil rigging business in the turn of the century, we asked Daniel how physically demanding it was to play a character living in such an era. “The thing about those lads, I mean, you don’t really need to discover Plainview from the beginning,” Day-Lewis says, “This film has him learning himself how to do it, anyone who can swing an axe or a sledge, which what anyone can do, can dig a hole in the ground, or a pick axe. So in terms of the physical preparation, there wasn’t really anything to do except stay fit and be outside digging holes. You know, they kind of made it up as they went along and that was true even as you see it in the story.” Day-Lewis also shared with us just how |
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