The Method Madness of Daniel Day-Lewis 

Beginnings - The Method Madness of Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis, five-time Oscar nominee, is famous for the extreme measures he takes in preparing for film roles. We see the green shoots of his method in his first on-screen experience - an uncredited part in John Schlesinger\'s

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - where he played a young vandal scratching a car with a broken milk bottle. \'I was recruited along with the other hooligans in my neighborhood\', he said, already shaky on the lines between on and off-screen characters.

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