Daniel Day-Lewis sent Nine co-star Fergie love letters
Posted on November 25th, 2009 by Hot Momma
(HMG) – Singer Fergie has revealed that she was sent love letters from Nine co-star and notorious method actor, Daniel Day-Lewis.
It might not be what you think though, and I say notorious, because Daniel has a reputation for totally sinking himself into the characters he is playing for months at a time. The Oscar winning actor wrote the letters in the guise of his Nine character Guido, who has a relationship with Fergie’s Saraghina in the forthcoming film, according to Popeater.
“Daniel is very charming. I’d go into my dressing room, and I’d find this little note. I’d open it, and it would be Guido’s stationary,” Fergie said.
She added: “He would write me little notes as Guido. They were very cute and very charming.”
As we reported last year, Daniel became imprisoned in Guido Contini, the skirt-chasing director in the movie musical “Nine.” Even when the camera stops rolling, the Irish actor continues to speak with an Italian accent, and this is actually pretty mild stuff for Daniel. His preparation, is now notorious, for previous roles. He crudely tattooed his hands and trained as a real fighter, twice a day, seven days a week, for nearly three years, for The Boxer (1997). His trainer at the time, former world champion Barry McGuigan, remarked that he could have turned professional.
For In The Name of the Father (1993), he slept in an abandoned jail and ate only prison rations. For The Crucible (1996), he lived in the film set’s replica village without electricity or running water and built his character’s house with 17th-century tools. For Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Day-Lewis prepared for the role of James Fenimore Cooper’s 18th-century hero Hawkeye by living off the land for six months, learning how to hunt, fish and skin animals.
He also decided he needed to stay in character for his role as psychotic Daniel Plainview for the movie, There Will Be Blood. With his family in tow for the shooting of the movie, things got strange when he came home for work. His wife Rebecca Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and their two children had to live with “Plainview” for quite a while. Daniel, also found it hard to come out of character after the film was finished.
Nine, slated for a Christmas release, is based on the original Tony-winning Broadway production, which was inspired by Frederico Fellini movie 8½.
I actually think that not being able to shift in and out of character is a liability.