00:00Daniel Day-Lewis is the star of your new movie,
00:02which is great, by the way, Phantom Thread.
00:04I thought it was a beautiful movie and also weirdly funny.
00:08I don't know if that was part of the plan exactly,
00:12but there is, like, a lot of humor in the film.
00:16Yeah, I mean, uh, am I wrong on that?
00:18No, you're right.
00:19I mean, I think the impression people might get about Daniel
00:24is that he's very serious.
00:25Yes.
00:26Right.
00:26I do.
00:27He's not?
00:28He's not.
00:29I mean, I, uh, no, he's not.
00:30What is an example?
00:31Like, what does he, what, like, for him,
00:34because I've heard these stories about him staying in character
00:36for, like, months, weeks at a time.
00:39Months.
00:40Months at a time.
00:41So he does do that?
00:42Absolutely he does that, yeah.
00:43I see.
00:44I mean, you go to, you don't go to work with Daniel Day-Lewis.
00:47You go to work with whoever his character is.
00:49That's who you see when you get to work in the morning,
00:52and that's who, who leaves at night, so.
00:54And that doesn't drive you insane if you
00:56and you have something to talk to him about, like you're
00:57making a plan of some kind.
00:59Well, yeah, no, you don't.
01:00You don't make plans.
01:01You don't make plans.
01:02He jokes around?
01:04He'll joke in character.
01:06Really?
01:07Yeah.
01:07But I know it sounds bizarre, but it actually,
01:10from a director's point of view, it's incredibly helpful.
01:12You have your own sort of three-dimensional character
01:14living there for you.
01:16So you just kind of follow him and film him.
01:18The character he plays, his last name is Woodcock.
01:22What's his first name in the?
01:24Reynolds.
01:24Reynolds Woodcock.
01:25Yeah.
01:25When he gets the script and sees Reynolds Woodcock,
01:28does he go, oh, come on with this.
01:30What are you trying to do?
01:31I'm Daniel Day-Lewis.
01:32Well, he came up with the name.
01:34Oh, he did?
01:35Oh, so he does have a good sense of humor.
01:36He does have a good sense of humor.
01:38He's all, I mean, you know, many people, he, he,
01:41you should see his Tim Gunn impression.
01:42He does a really good Tim Gunn.
01:43He knows Tim Gunn?
01:44I know, it sounds right.
01:46Well, when he, yeah, you should hear Daniel say designers
01:48like Tim Gunn is pretty.
01:50I can't even imagine him watching television,
01:52to be honest with you.
01:53He has, honestly, for the world's greatest actor,
01:58like the worst taste in television.
02:00What does he watch?
02:02He was particularly obsessed a few years ago
02:05with Naked and Afraid.
02:06Do you remember that?
02:07Yes.
02:08And I know.
02:10He would say, oh, you've got it.
02:12You've got to see Naked and Afraid.
02:13It's just that he would, he was, yeah.
02:15Wow.
02:16Epis, each week he'd tune in.
02:18He also said he's retiring from acting.
02:21Was that at the conclusion of shooting this movie?
02:25Well, yeah.
02:26Yeah, OK.
02:27So was that good or bad that at the end of your movie,
02:30he decided he's never going to act again?
02:34Yeah, I suppose it suggests either he had such a good time
02:38doing it that he didn't want to bother trying
02:40to top the experience.
02:41That never even occurred to me, but yeah, uh-huh, yeah.
02:44Or?
02:45Or the other thing.
02:47Did you do anything to try to talk him out of this?
02:50Do you think that this is something
02:51that he will stick with?
02:53It's, I don't know.
02:54You don't know?
02:55I don't know.
02:55But I'm going to wait a little while before I try
02:57and talk him into something else.
02:58Is it possible this is part of his weird sense of humor?
03:02Now that's good.
03:03That's good.
03:04Maybe we figured something out there.
03:06Yeah.
03:06Well, the movie is, all your movies are great.
03:09I really, you're one of my favorite filmmakers,
03:11and I'm really excited that you stopped by.
03:13The movie is called Phantom Thread.
03:15It's in select cities now.
03:16If you want to see Daniel Day-Lewis, he's not that serious.
03:18He's really kind of a, from what I hear, he's a fun guy.
03:21He is.
03:22It opens everywhere on January 19th.
03:25Paul Thomas Anderson, everybody.
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