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with us a particular day he recalls during shooting where the 37 year-old director managed to use his considerable skill to overcome a scene that proved to be more challenging to put together than anticipated.

“It was a very difficult day,” he recalls, “Things weren’t going right and people were doing all kinds of things to it to try and fix the pipe, which was needed to be working in the background, filling in the reservoir and we weren’t digging anyhow, so we lost a lot of a day in this place, which we just couldn’t afford to do as time was very tight. And essentially, out of necessity often, something interesting is born.”

“Paul set up a tracking shot which covered the whole scene,” Day-Lewis adds, “We didn’t know if we could make it work because obviously, with the hits, you got to get each right, at the right angle, and in a moving shot covers the whole scene and the chance of everything getting right in that shot were pretty slim. But Paul seemed to tap it like that and there was nothing we could do to get ready for that, except just try it and try again.”

Another unique aspect of There Will Be Blood is that the score was written by Radiohead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood. The actor spoke with us with how much he admired the musician’s incredible skills as a composer.

“Paul recorded the music of Abbey Road in London and the astonishing about Jonny is that he didn’t study composition.,” Daniel says,” I think he was a violinist and then, when he went into the band, the band became his life. But somehow, along the way, he taught himself composition and he’s arranged and composed for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whose played a lot of music and he scored the whole thing himself. I don’t know how he did it.”

All in all, Daniel Day-Lewis is obviously an actor who more than lives up to his esteemed reputation as one of the greatest actors continuing to work today. However, when the actor was asked to comment on a bizarre rumor that an actor backed out of There Will Be Blood due to allegedly being intimidated by Day-Lewis, Daniel’s response was nothing short of being genuinely perplexed.

“I was quite surprised when I read that comment,” he says, “Anyhow, the problem was, during that particular passing, I absolutely don’t believe that it was because he was intimidated by me. I happen to believe that. I hope I’m right.”

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