Arise! Arise! The British Are…Acting!

Article Excerpt

BY ROB LAZEBNIK
Daniel Day-Lewis, the son of an English poet laureate and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, just won his third Academy Award, this one for a stunning performance as Abraham Lincoln. I didn’t think twice about a Brit playing our most American of presidents because Mr. Day-Lewis had already been our last Mohican, led our gangs of New York and drained our California oil fields.
But when Ulysses S. Grant appeared in “Lincoln,” alarm bells went off: That actor, Jared Harris, played Lane Price, the persnickety Brit in “Mad Men.” Don’t get me wrong: Mr. Harris is “brilliant” (as …
Continue reading article with pop up player

Read more: Arise! Arise! The British Are…Acting!