Right now, the thing I’m projecting is comfort. What we wear, he says, is chosen to “make us feel we can get through the day. They’re a bit fucking Danish, but there we are.” “Somewhere between snazzy and Scandinavian. He’s polite and solicitous, even when his laptop all but explodes in his rucksack (“Ooh, that’s not a good smell …”).Īt 47, he dresses like an upmarket jumble sale on legs: old T-shirt from Rag & Bone, mossy Oliver Spencer felt trousers (“not itchy at all”), two-tone brogues with snazzy string detailing. At an awards ceremony in New York this month, he asked Manville to read out his phone number from the podium so Tiffany Haddish – the Girls Trip breakout star – could give him a call. His Reddit threads and Twitter Q&As are relaxed and irreverent. Touted as the successor to Demme, as well as, variously, Altman, Scorsese, Coppola, Truffaut and – since Phantom Thread – Hitchcock, he still behaves like a first-timer who is eager to please. People said: ‘You’re picking the right time to leave the country,’ and it was like: ‘No, it’s the reverse, I don’t wanna leave here right now.’” Open your eyes.’ And, of course, we were like: ‘Naaah.’ Getting on a flight back to England the day after the election was horrifying. “Because of Brexit, everybody was like: ‘It’s going to fucking happen to you, man. During preproduction in London, Anderson flew back to Los Angeles to vote, gleefully anticipating a Clinton victory. The president, he thinks, would “freak out” even Anderson’s most extreme characters, The Master’s Lancaster Dodd and There Will Be Blood’s Daniel Plainview. “Do we have to?” But he can’t help himself. Talking about him would be “yucky”, Trump likewise. At the time, Anderson spoke of his love for a man who had taught him so much. Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoĪnderson’s 2011 film, The Master, was produced by Weinstein. Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Alma (Vicky Krieps). Watch the movie a second time and all her entreaties – “Whatever you do, do it carefully” “Maybe I’m looking for trouble” – sound like threats. Yet Reynolds underestimates her at his peril. A fumbling, blushing immigrant waitress, Alma is whisked off to Reynolds’s London fashion house to act as a live-in muse, and initially appears no match for the suave genius 30 years her senior. For Reynolds is upstaged by his sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville, on super-wither), and turned subservient to new muse, Alma (Vicky Krieps). Phantom Thread is a subversion – a hymn to women’s upper hands and stronger stomachs. But strip away the cravat and you find a pussy bow. Daniel Day-Lewis, who won an Oscar for the director’s There Will Be Blood, is back as another ravenously charismatic obsessive, Reynolds Woodcock, a brilliant, brattish couture designer in postwar London. Phantom Thread – exquisitely styled, emotionally raw, macho saturated – looks like classic Anderson. About whether the odd bout of illness might sometimes be healthy. It was just one of those things that takes you over.” Tended to by his wife, Maya Rudolph – she of Bridesmaids’ most memorable gastrointestinal moment – Anderson hatched a plan: a movie about the tenderness of the invalid and the power of the nurse. A bout four years ago, Paul Thomas Anderson got sick.
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