Feb 2, 2008, 11:35 GMT
Daniel Day-Lewis drove his family mad while shooting new movie 'There Will Be Blood'.
01/27/2008 - Daniel Day-Lewis - 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Press Room - Shrine Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA USA © Chris Hatcher / PR Photos
The Oscar winner - who has two children, Ronan and Cashel, with wife Rebecca Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller - admits his decision to stay in character as psychotic Plainview for 'There Will Be Blood' tested his wife's tolerance to the limit.
Daniel, 50, said: "For 'There Will Be Blood', my wife and kids were with me throughout. And they did go a little bit crazy living with Plainview all the time, but the kids thought it was a laugh in the end to have this different bloke as their dad and both did a pretty decent impersonation of me.
"My wife is amazingly tolerant. I knew that from the word go. She just believes, like I do, that if you are attempting anything of a creative nature, no rules apply."
The 'Gangs of New York' star - who is renowned for being a method actor - also found it hard to come out of character after the film was finished.
He added to the Arts and Book Review magazine: "Well, absurd as it might seem, when you've been someone else for that amount of time, it's even more absurd when it's all over.
"Then the joke is on all of us, because once a curiosity is unleashed you can't just tie it up again. It does take time to let go. There is no great part of you that wants to stop doing that work, and no matter how much you're begging for it to stop you need someone to put a restraining order on it."
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