Top 10 Daniel Day-Lewis co-stars

DDL really works better with women, doesn't he ( in terms of their performances). I felt I was even stretching things including Liam Neeson, but those first 10 minutes in Gangs Of New York of them facing off is the movie I'd rather have seen, than the one we actually got.

He does...doesn’t he? I wonder why that is? Looking at yours and therealcomicmans lists..he does have a better rapport with women. And by your lists..that’s two movies...The Age of Innocence and Phantom Thread where DDL had to go up against two actresses delivering powerhouse performances in the same film.

Where the F* is  Madeleine Stowe ??????? 





They've had the best chemistry !

Yeah, she was definitely close to making my list. I was definitely thinking about it, but after I picked Studi (who was great in that movie), I just looked at films other than Last Of The Mohicans, and found enough options to not need to come back to her. She'd be a good pick for someone else's list though.

Quite frankly , Madeleine's filmography is definitely superior to Brenda Fricker's , Wes Studi's or Vicky Krieps' ones.


She's a criminally underrated actress who did some good to brilliant films in the late 80's , 90's and early 00's before becoming a TV actress with REVENGE in the 10's . I mean she was really good in Short Cuts , Closet Land , Twelve Monkeys , Revenge (the movie) , The Two Jakes , Blink , Playing By Heart, Another Stakeout , The General's Daughter , Unlawful Entry,Saving Milly , We Were Soldiers,etc.


But besides that , I still think that she's the actress (as the matter of fact not just actress but ACTOR in general) that DDL had the best chemistry with.

Lord....now I'd love to see a The Last Dance style documentary with DDL going into sociopathic detail like Jordan about all the male actors he dunked on in movies for real or imagined slights .

 Winona x 2 : don't forget THE CRUCIBLE ! 

I've noticed that he's hardly ever worked with any POC in his career like ever.

1. Lesley Manville in Phantom Thread
2. Winona Ryder in The Age of Innocence
3. Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread
4. Michelle Pfeiffer in The Age of Innocence
5. Sally Field in Lincoln
6. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln
7. Liam Neeson in Gangs of New York
8. Fiona Shaw in My Left Foot
9. Emma Thompson in In the Name of the Father
10.David Strathairn in Lincoln

As a lot of others have noted there's a lot of women on the list for whatever reason. Neeson is the only male actor who I ever feel like has had a real connection with him on screen, Jones and Strathairn are there because their performances are really good independent of him. He definitely had pretty special chemistry with Ryder, though, if DDL ever comes back I wouldn't mind seeing them play a couple again, that could be a great comeback part for Ryder too. Some of it is that his male co-stars have simply dropped the ball a lot of the time (looking at you Leo and Dano)

I don't think there is anything sinister in that (though he obviously worked with Native Americans in Last Of The Mohicans). And Gordon Warnecke, his main co-star in My Beautiful Laundrette (One of his few contemporary films) was British-Asian. He hardly does contemporary films, where casting is naturally more likely to be diverse. A lot of the period stuff he does is very specific and tends to centre around white society in Europe or America (Last Of The Mohicans being an exception) . 

If he was more into doing contemporary films, he'd have probably worked with more POC. Also, he did try to get cast in Pulp Fiction (but Tarantino didn't want him, as he had set his mind on casting John Travolta). DDL would have ended up working with Samuel L Jackson and Ving Rhames had he gotten the role of Vincent Vega. In fact, had DDL become a Tarantino regular, he'd likely have ended up working with POC actors in his other films as well. His career just never took that direction.