TV Guide: DDL at the time of There Will Be Blood

Lincoln - Gulliver McGrath Interview - Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day Lewis

Red Carpet News: Lincoln - Gulliver McGrath Interview - Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day Lewis

Michael Mann looks back on 'The Last of the Mohicans' 20 years later

Hot Fix:  Michael Mann looks back on 'The Last of the Mohicans' 20 years later

Indeed, it is still the film's sweeping romance, its epic sadness, its viscous sense of honor that resonates emotionally to this day.

"Daniel is athletic as a long-distance runner," Mann recalled of his leading man. "He'll get up in the morning and do 10, 15, 16 miles. But he had no upper body development, and so he took six, seven months to put on all that weight. And the ambition for Daniel and myself was to have him acquire all the skill sets that Daniel Boone would have had.

Listen to the podcast of the interview 

Roman Polanski Plans Historical Film About Persecuted Jew

Forbes: Roman Polanski Plans Historical Film About Persecuted Jew

It seems like the right kind of material for Polanski, who now doubt relates to Dreyfus. Who will play Dreyfus remains unknown. But it does seem tailor-made for Daniel Day Lewis.

Daniel Quote

DDL Quotes:

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

Tommy Lee Jones Calls Daniel Day-Lewis’ Portrayal Of ‘Lincoln’ The Best Ever

iFilm: Tommy Lee Jones Calls Daniel Day-Lewis’ Portrayal Of ‘Lincoln’ The Best Ever

I don’t think Daniel ever loses himself but I don’t think President Lincoln has ever been portrayed as well. He’s read his history, he’s read his books – Daniel has – and his Lincoln is a country boy who also happens to be a brilliant lawyer and a poet. This is not a Lincoln that’s just stepped off the dollar bill or just arisen from the Lincoln Monument. This is not the icon or the hero and he’s not the joke of the old ‘Honest Abe’ nonsense. This is a real man and I don’t think Lincoln has ever been done as well

Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis Hit Gibsons, Oak St.

ChicagoEater.com:  Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis Hit Gibsons, Oak St.

Gibson's in Chicago [ed note: Were they there for shots at Lincoln's home?]

Lincoln insisted on having the 1864 election in the midst of war. "You can not have free government without elections...if the rebellion could force us to forgo a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."  -- Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois

He's 13, from Brunswick, and he's worked with Scorsese, Burton and Spielberg

The Age: He's 13, from Brunswick, and he's worked with Scorsese, Burton and Spielberg

Next up, he plays Abraham Lincoln's son Tad, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, who has the titular role in Spielberg's Lincoln biopic. "When you're in the room with [Day-Lewis], you feel like you don't need to act," says Gulliver. "You feel like you're there. That's how good he is."