He’s the only actor to ever win three Best Actor Oscars, and he’s likely to pick up another nomination this year.
Daniel Day-Lewis always does his homework. The story that he learned to speak Czech to play the philandering brain surgeon Tomas in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an adaptation of Milan Kundera’s 1984 novel, has become an essential part of his lore. But in a 2008 interview with The Guardian, he complicated that legend by saying he thought making the movie was a mistake. “The idea of speaking English with a Czech accent without actually speaking Czech meant it wasn’t coming from anywhere,” he said, diminishing his own Czech skills. “I knew that that kernel of truth that I need to have somewhere in a role would be missing.
When filming the acclaimed My Left Foot, where he played Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, the actor would reportedly insist on “visiting restaurants in a wheelchair” and “had to be lifted across the lighting cables each day to reach the set.” This act of Method-prowess earned him his first Oscar nomination and his first win.
After 2007’s There Will Be Blood, which won him his second Oscar and made him a milkshake-draining icon to a new generation of filmgoers, Daniel Day-Lewis probably could have done anything. That he teamed up with Steven Spielberg to play Abraham Lincoln isn’t shocking — he’s always had a thing for playing historical characters — but it was a little weird that he texted his co-star Sally Field, who played Mary Todd Lincoln, in character. You know, as Abe Lincoln, a guy who never texted in his life.
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