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[h=1]Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln[/h][h=2]Oscar-winning star looks amazingly similar to iconic American president[/h]


The Hollywood actor was snapped by Twitter user Michael Phillips (@uvamichael) whilst taking a break from filming Steven Spielberg's new biopic ‘Lincoln’.

Although the actor is not in full presidential attire and is just sitting in a cafe, he still looks amazingly similar to the to iconic American president.


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Uncanny... Day-Lewis with Lincoln beard (Credit: Michael Phillips/@uvamichael)



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Even without the coat, suit and signature top hat, it’s still pretty easy to imagine what Day-Lewis’ incarnation of the character will look like. It's the beard that does it.

As the film has been shooting since October, you might have expected to have seen more on-set paparazzi shots from the film, but almost all filming has been indoors.

Set for release in December 2012, the film follows Lincoln in the last few months of his presidency as he guides the North to victory in the American Civil war.

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Real thing... Abraham Lincoln



History buffs will remember that Lincoln was assassinated by confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in 1865.

Based partially on the Doris Kearns Goodwin book ‘Team of Rivals’, Daniel Day-Lewis is supported by one of the best casts in recent memory including (deep breath) Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Strathairn, Jackie Earle Haley, and Jared Harris.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
[h=1]Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln[/h][h=2]Oscar-winning star looks amazingly similar to iconic American president[/h]


The Hollywood actor was snapped by Twitter user Michael Phillips (@uvamichael) whilst taking a break from filming Steven Spielberg's new biopic ‘Lincoln’.

Although the actor is not in full presidential attire and is just sitting in a cafe, he still looks amazingly similar to the to iconic American president.


daniel-day-lewis-abraham-lincoln_104746.jpg

Uncanny... Day-Lewis with Lincoln beard (Credit: Michael Phillips/@uvamichael)



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Even without the coat, suit and signature top hat, it’s still pretty easy to imagine what Day-Lewis’ incarnation of the character will look like. It's the beard that does it.

As the film has been shooting since October, you might have expected to have seen more on-set paparazzi shots from the film, but almost all filming has been indoors.

Set for release in December 2012, the film follows Lincoln in the last few months of his presidency as he guides the North to victory in the American Civil war.

abraham-lincoln_105304.jpg

Real thing... Abraham Lincoln



History buffs will remember that Lincoln was assassinated by confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in 1865.

Based partially on the Doris Kearns Goodwin book ‘Team of Rivals’, Daniel Day-Lewis is supported by one of the best casts in recent memory including (deep breath) Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Strathairn, Jackie Earle Haley, and Jared Harris.
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Jackie Earle Haley? Can anyone remember his first big film role?



He played the center fielder/juevinile delinquent in the original Bad News Bears with Walther Mathaue and Tatum Oneal.
 
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History buffs will remember that Lincoln was assassinated by confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in 1865.
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lol what the fuck? We have to be a history buff to know that?
 
Daniel Day lewis is one of the great artists of our time. He's apparently been in character since march, and he never breaks it.

[Day-Lewis threw his personal version of "method acting" into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. During filming, his eccentricities came to the fore, due to his refusal to break character.[SUP][9][/SUP] Playing a severely paralyzed character on screen, off screen Day-Lewis had to be moved around the set in his wheelchair, and crew members would curse at having to lift him over camera and lighting wires, all so that he might gain insight into all aspects of Brown's life, including the embarrassments.[SUP][8][/SUP] He broke two ribs during filming from assuming a hunched-over position in his wheelchair for so many weeks.[SUP][13]
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Day-Lewis returned to the stage in 1989 to work with Richard Eyre, in Hamlet at the National Theatre, but collapsed in the middle of a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears to his son.[SUP][9][/SUP] He began sobbing uncontrollably and refused to go back on stage;[SUP][14][/SUP] he was replaced by Ian Charleson before a then-unknown Jeremy Northam finished what little was left of the production's run. Although the incident was officially attributed to exhaustion, one rumour following the incident was that Day-Lewis had seen the ghost of his own father.[SUP][9][/SUP][SUP][15][/SUP] He confirmed on the British celebrity chat show Parkinson, that this was true.[SUP][16][/SUP] He has not appeared on stage since.[SUP][16]
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I'll look for the movie when it comes out. But I think it'll be hard to top his role in Gangs of New York.
 
or his role as Hawkeye in "The Last of the Mohicans". What was ironic about that movie was it was more historically accurate then Coopers novel was.
 
It will be interesting to see how he plays Lincolns character. Lincoln is well noted in the contemporary descriptions of him, of that time, as being a very deliberate and thoughtful person. Which often gave those who did not know him well the impression of being slow witted and stupid. To state the obvious he was anything but that.

What has always fascinated me, and Dorris Kearns points this out in her book about his cabinet. Was what a master politician Lincoln was. When elected the eastern establishment rubes. Mostly elites from Harvard Yard and Yale viewed him as a backwoods politician and a rube elected by circumstances and grossly unqualified for the job. Those who joined his cabinet were mostly political opponents with outright condescending opinions about Lincoln and that they would manipulate him and run the nation as the President behind the scenes. Lincoln not only welcomed these assholes into his cabinet but he recognized their skills and manipulated and used them (not the other way around) to meet his ends and to great affect too and he did so with a political ruthlessness when crossed politically that was breath taking. When Lincoln was President those who crossed him politically paid a steep price. Considering the fact that Lincoln was in fact a self taught back woods bumpkin one can only marvel at his genius.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
It will be interesting to see how he plays Lincolns character. Lincoln is well noted in the contemporary descriptions of him, of that time, as being a very deliberate and thoughtful person. Which often gave those who did not know him well the impression of being slow witted and stupid. To state the obvious he was anything but that.

What has always fascinated me, and Dorris Kearns points this out in her book about his cabinet. Was what a master politician Lincoln was. When elected the eastern establishment rubes. Mostly elites from Harvard Yard and Yale viewed him as a backwoods politician and a rube elected by circumstances and grossly unqualified for the job. Those who joined his cabinet were mostly political opponents with outright condescending opinions about Lincoln and that they would manipulate him and run the nation as the President behind the scenes. Lincoln not only welcomed these assholes into his cabinet but he recognized their skills and manipulated and used them (not the other way around) to meet his ends and to great affect too and he did so with a political ruthlessness when crossed politically that was breath taking. When Lincoln was President those who crossed him politically paid a steep price. Considering the fact that Lincoln was in fact a self taught back woods bumpkin one can only marvel at his genius.
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I wonder if they will reveal the real reason why Lincoln was against slavery, that he was concerned that states like Kansas and Nebraska didn't become slave states as well. He was not worried from a moral point of view, more an economic one as businesses found it hard to compete against slave owners who didn't have to pay wages. He also wanted to deport the slaves back to Africa, Liberia to be exact.

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
 
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I wonder if they will reveal the real reason why Lincoln was against slavery, that he was concerned that states like Kansas and Nebraska didn't become slave states as well. He was not worried from a moral point of view, more an economic one as businesses found it hard to compete against slave owners who didn't have to pay wages. He also wanted to deport the slaves back to Africa, Liberia to be exact.

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
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Lincoln certainly opposed slavery from a moral stand point. He was just a pragmatist about the odd institution. The fact that he shared the mainstream racial views of whites, concerning blacks, of that era is a different issue from opposing slavery on moral grounds.
 
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Lincoln certainly opposed slavery from a moral stand point. He was just a pragmatist about the odd institution.
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There was an excellent documentary on the Beeb this week about Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner? You can see it on I-Player but you will probably have to use a proxy.

To most Americans Abraham Lincoln is the nation's greatest president - a political genius who won the Civil War and ended slavery. Today the cult of Lincoln has become a multi-million dollar industry, with millions of Americans visiting his memorials and thousands of books published that present him as a saint more than a politician.

But does Lincoln really deserve all this adulation? 150 years after the war his reputation is being re-assessed, as historians begin to uncover the dark side of his life and politics. They have revealed that the president who ended slavery secretly planned to deport the freed black people out of America. Others are asking if Lincoln should be remembered as a war hero who saved the nation or as a war criminal who launched attacks on innocent southern civilians. (R)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00y5kdx/Abraham_Lincoln_Saint_or_Sinner/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00y5kdx/Abraham_Lincoln_Saint_or_Sinner/
 
Its no secret that Lincoln was an open member of a back-to-Africa society, but he was not foolish enough to believe that most blacks would opt to go to Liberia. It was simply believed that those who went would be happier in a non-white society.
 
As for Daniel Day Lewis, he is an awesome actor. While I often don't enjoy his movies (There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York just aren't my cup of tea), he always turns in an outstanding performance. Loved him in Last of the Mohicans.
 
there will be blood was fucking awesome and no country for old men completely robbed best picture that year
 
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