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Vicky Krieps has fond memories of filming Phantom Thread with costar Daniel Day-Lewis.
“Thank you for asking this question, because usually people hint at what was difficult, and you’re asking me what was fun,” Krieps, 42, tells PEOPLE at the New York Film Festival on Friday, Oct. 3.
Krieps, who stars in the new film Father Mother Sister Brother, had a breakout role opposite Day-Lewis, 68, in the 2017 drama.
“What was fun working on Phantom Thread was all the quirky, weird moments where you think of ‘How can we put this together?’ It’s actually fun to think of how weird people can be,” Krieps recalls.
Phantom Thread, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Day-Lewis as a high-end fashion designer named Reynolds Woodcock in 1950s London. Krieps played a waitress who becomes Reynolds’ muse and lover after a chance meeting in a restaurant. Leslie Manville also starred in the film.
“The New Year’s Eve dancing was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever done in my life,” Krieps adds, referencing a scene in Phantom Thread. “The nature. Me and Daniel would walk around nature and just look at trees and talk about poetry. That was beautiful and fun. Leslie Manville is so much fun.”
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Day-Lewis took an eight-year hiatus from acting after Phantom Thread’s release that ended when he filmed his new movie Anemone with his son Ronan Day-Lewis as the director. The movie, which released Oct. 10, also premiered at the New York Film Festival.
“I made a f—ing fool of myself by announcing that I was going to stop working, and probably a bigger fool of myself coming back,” Day-Lewis said, to laughter, at a New York Film Festival press conference Sept. 26. “But to deny myself the possibility of working with Ronan just to stand on my pride, I think that would’ve been probably a worse decision than just, well, I said that, so I’m sticking to it.”
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Krieps took to the New York Film Festival this October to promote Father Mother Sister Brother, an ensemble comedy-drama with Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Mayim Bialik, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.
“The movie’s about family. But it’s at the same time about why are families awkward, but also why are they there for maybe loving and why are they so lovely and what do we like and hate about family,” Krieps teases.
Father Mother Sister Brother is in theaters Dec. 24.
