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Daniel "The Butcher" Day-Lewis...

The Irish based actor Daniel Day Lewis who won an Oscar for the film My Left Foot is getting ready for his next role by training with a butcher. The actor who is famous for his method acting skills is preparing for his role as a sadistic murderer in his next role in the Martin Scorsese movie Gangs of New York with Liam Neeson, Leoardo DI Caprio and Cameron Diaz.

The actor, who when training for his role for the film In The Name of the Father had himself locked in a tin hut which was hit for hours with iron bars in order to get the role right of a tortured prisoner.

His role in the Gangs of New York sees the actor as Bill "The Butcher" Poole, a gang leader who chops up his victims. Reports say that Lewis has been spending hours in the butchers shop W Head and Co in London's Peckham carving meat each day for hours.

The butcher is under contract for Miramax and unable to talk about Daniel's role. The film itself is shooting in Italy and is about a turf war in New York between Irish and Italian gangs.