Daniel Day-Lewis, The Ballad of Jack & Rose

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis returned to the screen for only the second time in the 21st century with The Ballad of Jack & Rose, written and directed by his wife, Rebecca Miller, daughter of famed playwright Arthur. Bearded, wearing an Irish knit sweater and maybe 20 pounds heavier than in the film, Day-Lewis sat down with host Stephen Schaefer in good spirits. Set in 1986, he plays Jack, a hippie who clings to the notion of communal living that inspired him in the early 1970s but has now become a hopeless cause. As Jack rails against the developer of his rural island community, he is forced to confront his terminal illness and who will become of his only companion, his teenage daughter. Day-Lewis learned to construct a house and became rail thin in pursuit of the character, and is clearly intrigued by him.

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