Lincoln Oscar hopeful Daniel Day-Lewis wouldn’t work on films back-to-back
He's on track to nab his third Academy Award and British acting powerhouse Daniel Day-Lewis has said that he would not want to make films back-to-back.
Talking to The Sun, the Lincoln actor revealed "Some actors work back to back because they have to, and I completely respect that. If financially I found my family needed me to do that then I would find some way of doing it.
Thanks be to God I haven't been put in that position.
I may be very uneasy - truth is I'd probably sooner go and try and find work in the construction crew than make films back to back.
The reason is it would completely destroy my enthusiasm for that work."
Day-Lewis can currently be seen in the aforementioned Lincoln and added that he valued the time he was given by director Steven Spielberg to develop his character explaining "Aloneness was one of the gifts that Steven allowed me.
He recognised in me the need to feel that aloneness - that he allowed me that space to feel that aloneness. Being the leader of the free world during a civil war is unimaginably lonely so my job was to imagine that."
Lincoln is out now and has received 12 Academy Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director, it features Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, David Strathairn, Bruce McGill, Tim Blake Nelson, Lee Pace, Jackie Earle Haley, Anthony Mackie and Dane DeHaan.
LINCOLN IS OUT NOW