DDL in My Left Foot-- a true labor of love.
Did anyone know this?
From TCM-- http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/218342%7C0/My-Left-Foot.html
As it often is with independent films, the final cost of My Left Foot is difficult to determine: £600,000 by some reports, £1.7 million, $2 million, $3 million by others. Regardless of the sum, financing the project proved difficult for producer Pearson, even with a rising star cast in the lead. Biographer Jenkins reports that Day-Lewis agreed to appear in the film for the modest sum of £70,000, plus a percentage of profits. But even that proved more than Pearson could raise. While the film was in preproduction, only 40% of the funds were in place. "'A week before we were due to begin shooting, I had to ring Daniel and tell him we would not have the money to pay him.' the producer remembered later. Daniel's response was instantaneous: 'It doesn't matter,' he said. 'I'm arriving on Tuesday anyway.'"
I read that his final salary was as long as 35,000. That's amazing even for an up and coming actor 26 years ago. He had already been in Unbearable Lightness of being after all.
"You are not only wrong. You are wrong at the top of your voice." share