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Article: The double life of Daniel Day-Lewis; With a new film just out, the actor talks about his family, his poet father - and why he can't bear to play middle-class men like himself.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2006
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Byline: LUCY CAVENDISH
DANIEL Day-Lewis is terribly tall and thin and seems as deep and as dark as a well. He is the opposite of glib.
Everything he says is carefully thought out. He is, at the age of nearly 49, sensitive, thoughtful, immensely likable and oddly attractive with his long face and crooked nose.
"I think, in England, I am considered to be mad," says Day-Lewis, in London for his new film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, which opened on Friday. "It seems I have this unreal life - as if people on reality television shows have any reality in their lives at all. It's all most confusing, isn't it?"
But then his life can seem ...