Daniel Day-Lewis’s Breakthrough Queer Role Is Still Electrifying Nearly 40 Years Later

Daniel Day-Lewis’s Breakthrough Queer Role Is Still Electrifying Nearly 40 Years Later

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As the story goes, a 28-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis wanted the role in My Beautiful Laundrette so badly, he was willing to threaten violence to get it. After meeting with director Stephen Frears, also early in what would become a highly regarded career, Day-Lewis wrote a letter that he thought might…

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