On this cold Black Friday I've found something very apropos to both the day and the season. Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within is a book I didn't even know existed until recently. I was killing time at a local Goodwill, perusing the bookshelf like usual when my subconscious picked up on something that the rest of me had to catch up to realize. I thought I saw something very familiar and I could have sworn it said Daniel Day-Lewis. I thought that was impossible because I thought there wasn't any books about him. I looked all around the spot in the bookshelf of where I was standing and then my eyes landed on this treasure. I nearly yelled out in the store in joy when I found this. A true find indeed.
This plain black book, sans dust jacket, is a biography of the legendary method actor that spans from his youth in Ireland all the way up unto his success with In the Name of my Father. Had it been written later we might have accounts of the man during his truly legendary roles. Daniel Day-Lewis is a very big inspiration to me ever since I saw the film adaptation of The Crucible in a High School English class. His brutal realism cut me to the core and one of his final lines, yelling out, "I have given you my soul, leave me my name!" echoes in my mind still.
Day-Lewis is starring in this year's Lincoln, a movie that I haven't seen yet but I can't wait to see. His approach to acting is unparalleled in the industry today. Stories abound of how deeply he immerses himself in the characters he plays and how intense he becomes. I'm excited to find the secrets to his character and the facets of his personality.
If you're interested, get lucky and find it a Goodwill like I did or go online here.
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