Kel O'neill There Will Be Blood — Ultra HD

O’Neill, Kel. “‘There Will Be Blood’: The Flawed Prophet of the American Dream.” Reverse Shot (Museum of the Moving Image), 2008. https://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/112/there_will_be_blood.

In 2007, Kel O’Neill was cast as Eli Sunday , the fiery young preacher who becomes the spiritual and psychological rival to Daniel Plainview. At the time, Paul Dano was cast in the much smaller role of Eli’s brother, Paul Sunday, and the two characters were not intended to be twins. kel o'neill there will be blood

For years, a pervasive Hollywood myth suggested that actor Kel O’Neill was fired from Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece, There Will Be Blood , because he was too intimidated by Daniel Day-Lewis’s intense method acting. While this story fits the legendary aura of Day-Lewis, O'Neill has since clarified that his departure was far less dramatic, though no less pivotal for his life. The Role That Could Have Been O’Neill, Kel