Directing Daniel Day Lewis was a life changing experience, Spielberg

When Steven Spielberg spoke to Edward Hale, he was effusive about the acting talents of Day-Lewis

STEVEN Spielberg is far too polite and politic to deal in absolutes so will not therefore confirm that Daniel Day-Lewis is the best actor with whom he has worked. What the iconic director will concede, however, is that Day-Lewis is one of two actors who has granted him a life-changing experience. The other is Tom Hanks.

In the case of the latter, it was the work they did on Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan, in particular, which was Spielberg’s dedication to his father who had served in the Second World War. Father and son were estranged for a while and made up around the time of the film’s 1998 release.