Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Daniel Day-Lewis: ‘Nine’ Lives, One Way Of Living
… I kind of climb in time to the music,” Day-Lewis laughs. “That luckily was something that Rob [Marshall, the film's director] didn’t try and convince either himself or me of — that he’d found a dancer. So he worked around that, in my case. … I was quite relieved that I could concentrate on the music.”
“And I had the great pleasure,” Day-Lewis says, of “watching day by day the rehearsals … of the girls.”
“The girls” are the driving force of Nine — the eight muses and lovers that haunt Contini during his crisis. They’re quite a lineup: Nicole Kidman as his film’s star, Marion Cotillard as his wife, Penelope Cruz as his mistress, Kate Hudson as a journalist, Fergie as a prostitute from his younger years and Judi Dench as an acerbic costume designer.
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