Actor Daniel Day-Lewis was reticent playing U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the now much anticipated film that opens this weekend beginning in limited release and heads out wide the following week. But after a long build-up before actually taking on the 16th U.S. leader, he reflected that he now feels "nourished" by the role and hopes Lincoln will "stay with him forever."
Both Day-Lewis and director Steven Spielberg made their only joint television appearance on ABC, which airs Friday evening on World News with Diane Sawyer and Nightline.
"This seemed like such an important thing," said U.K.-born Day-Lewis. "The last thing I wanted to do was to desiccate the memory of the most dearly loved president of this country."
Day-Lewis said that he became familiar with Lincoln while studying up on the Civil War and Spielberg recalled going to Washington, D.C. as a youth.
"I think it might have been from the cards that you got with bubble gum," Day-Lewis said. "That was a huge currency at the school where I was and there was a big series on the Civil War. ... We were constantly swapping cards back and forth to try to get the completed set."
Added Spielberg: "All I saw was a giant. I never forgot that experience. ... I felt he was looking directly at me."
Spielberg added that the found the idea of making Lincoln daunting, but said that Doris Kerns-Goodwin's Team of Rivals shed light on a part of the President he had hoped to discover.
"He was awkward to look at. His voice didn't fit his stature, and he would just disarm a room with just a crazy story that had no relevance to the issue of why they were in…
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