Daniel Day-Lewis – “Gangs of New York”
Advertisement
The British actor is known for his eccentric and sometimes fanatical approach to roles. For example, on the set of the film My Left Foot, Day-Lewis, whose character was stricken with cerebral palsy, refused to get up from his wheelchair the entire shooting day. And before filming the drama In the Name of the Father, the actor lost 13 kilograms and spent several days in a cell with real prisoners.
Preparing for the filming of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis walked around winter New York in a shabby and worn coat – like his character, the leader of the street gang Butcher. It is not surprising that the actor got pneumonia. What is surprising is that he refused treatment until the end of filming, because in the 19th century, where the film is set, pneumonia was not yet treated.
