Come on, now. We found this hard to believe, but apparently there are people out there who've watched 'Gangs of New York' and thought they were actually seeing a career defining performance by Jeremy Irons. Both men are British, over 60, and are celebrated veterans of the acting world, but that's about as far as the comparison goes. OK, they both have gray hair, too. And they appear to have the same nose. And dimples, too. Actually, now we've thought about it, maybe those of you who think they look alike have a point.
The famously private Day-Lewis is a notoriously private man when he's away from the cameras but is known to take the 'method' approach to his parts, taking his acting very seriously and completely committing himself to the role he's playing. Maybe it's possible that for all these years, Irons has actually just been Day-Lewis giving the performance of a lifetime?