He does say, however, that it proved far less of an internal struggle than he'd initially imagined. He admits that Jack and Rose was a breeze to film after something like Scorsese's 2003 epic, The Gangs of New York (for which he won a Bafta) but that, at its conclusion, "I was exhausted by it, fit for dog food and not much else." But then Daniel Day-Lewis isn't your ordinary actor, instead undertaking each role with a level of intensity that often threatens to leave permanent mental and physical damage. While The Ballad of Jack and Rose is ultimately a bleak meditation about the death of ideals, it is, after all, only a movie. It is difficult to know quite what he means here. They seem to think it's pretentious, which is ridiculous because Rebecca doesn't have a pretentious bone in her body." The people who like it love it, but those who don't hate it. It seems to be dividing opinion, this picture. I tell him yes, that it was poetic and touching and melancholy, and he beams as if lit from within: "Oh, I'm so glad, so glad. Still steepling his fingers, and now leaning towards me, he asks if I liked it. His wife, Rebecca Miller (daughter of playwright Arthur), has just made a film. But, at 49 years old, he is now happily married with two boys, aged seven and three (he also has another, aged 10, by the French actress Isabelle Adjani). It's all rumour and conjecture, of course, but the man has been linked in the past with Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, Juliette Binoche and even Madonna. f It is this, you immediately sense, that must have once drawn him to some of the world's most famous women. He speaks with a fluid eloquence reminiscent of his late father, the poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, and he emits a level of charisma I have very rarely been exposed to. Here today, however, amid the soft furnishings of a Dublin hotel room, the rain pouring outside all over his beloved motorbike (hence the leather and rubber), he is warm and chatty.
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