Question: What kind of accent does Daniel Day-Lewis speak with?
Cubs Fan
8th Apr 2008
There Will Be Blood (2007)
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Chosen answer: Daniel Day-Lewis based his voice for and characterization of Daniel Plainview in part on old recordings of the director, writer, and actor John Huston. An article by Christopher Goodwin in the Sunday Times (of London) revealed Paul Thomas Anderson sent Day-Lewis documentaries about Huston while Day-Lewis was preparing to play the role.
Cnyvek
Just watched it. Sounds exactly like Huston in Chinatown.