'Phantom Thread' marks end for Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis
Director Paul Thomas Anderson calls his movie "Phantom Thread" a romance, but its star Daniel Day-Lewis said that filming it made him so sad he decided to quit acting.
Triple Oscar winner Day-Lewis plays fastidious 1950s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock whose self-centered life is disrupted when his latest muse, Alma (played by newcomer Vicky Krieps), falls in love with him and matters take an unexpected and sinister twist.
The movie, arriving in US theaters on Dec. 25, took two years to research and write in what Anderson says was a collaborative effort with Day-Lewis.
"It was always my intention to make a romantic film. The kind of things we talked about are the classic gothic romances like 'Rebecca,' 'Gaslight' and 'Vertigo'," Anderson said.
"'Vertigo' is really about obsession and that fever that comes over you when romance comes your way ... (The movie) gets pretty complicated and peculiar, as love does," he added.
British-born Day-Lewis, known for his meticulous preparation, threw himself into the project, studying for months with designers and making a couture dress himself.
"Everything in the House of Woodcock was so particular - what chair, what silverware,...