Kevin J. O’Connor portrayed Daniel Day-Lewis’ “brother” Henry Brandis in There Will Be Blood. With that movie having come out on DVD yesterday, Movie Web caught up with the little known actor to ask him about the experience on set:

How did you first learn of the project and what attracted you to the character Henry Brands?
Kevin J. O’Connor: Well I got the script and I sent in the audition on tape right away. What attracted me was the people involved, Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson, obviously, and the character. When I read the character, I thought ‘I like this guy,’ the way they explain this character, it was even vaguer than the other characters, I thought, and I found it interesting.

This guy shows up out of nowhere and it’s sort of frightening. You take a left turn from the movie and you get this other character and story and you want to make sure that it still blends in with the rest of the film… but you’re in the hands of Mr. Anderson and Mr. Day-Lewis.

Daniel Day-Lewis just gave a towering performance in this. Could you or everyone else on the set get a sense early on that this was Oscar-worthy right away?
Kevin J. O’Connor: You know what? I guess I wasn’t looking at it that way, but I thought, ‘Wow. This is such an interesting character.’ Since I have scenes with him, I don’t get a chance to just watch him, in a sense of just sitting back. I’m with him, like most of the actors, were with Daniel Plainview, so we’d sort of do anything to please him (Laughs).

Read the full interview now.

We already know There Will Be Blood.

But, according to the following video, there will also be bell…

There’s one every year. That movie quote that captures the attention of people everywhere.

I see dead people. I bought you a delicious bass. 

We could go on and on. This year, USA Today is reporting that the catchphrase that’s caught on most with Americans is courtesy of Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood: “I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!”

Relatively few people have seen the movie — this past weekend, it expanded to about 1,500 theaters and its gross so far is $21.1 million — but the dialogue has taken off nonetheless.

A “There Will Be Milkshakes” video, with scenes from the film playing to Kelis’ song Milkshake, has recevoed more than 60,000 views on YouTube. Check it out:

What do you think? Can you think of more catchy movie quotes from the past year? 

As There Will Be Blood continues to pick up awards, many are wondering if we’re looking at the winner of this year’s Best Picture at the Oscars.

If that’s not enough to entice people to check out the Daniel Day-Lewis vehicle, here are a series of reviews from America’s top critics:

- There Will Be Blood strives for boldness, instead of just being bold. It doesn’t cut, and it doesn’t bleed. — Salon.com

- There Will Be Blood, the joint venture between actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Paul Thomas Anderson, might be the most incendiary combination since the Molotov cocktail. – Los Angeles Times

- For bleakness, the movie can’t be beat — nor for brilliance. — Entertainment Weekly

- Paul Thomas Anderson’s loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil! finds the director exhibiting newfound maturity and restraint without sacrificing any measure of artistry. — Slant Magazine

Director Paul Thomas Anderson and actor Daniel Day-Lewis recently sat down with ComingSoon.net. The topic of their conversation?

There Will Be Blood, this pair’s critically acclaimed Oscar contender:

ComingSoon.net: What was the inspiration and impetus for adapting the Upton Sinclair novel into a movie and for Daniel, this movie was written with you in mind, so what was the collaboration like and what was the challenge to play such a miserable pr*ck in this movie?
Daniel Day-Lewis: No challenge. (laughter)

P.T. Anderson: I think the arc goes like that (does a downwards sweeping gesture with arm) goes from miserable to more miserable hopefully. The inspiration for the movie first and foremost comes from the book. I’d been trying to write something, anything, just to get something written.

I had a story that wasn’t really working that was about two fighting families and it didn’t really have anything, just that premise. When I read the book, there were so many ready-made scenes and the great venue of the oilfields. Those were the obvious things that seemed worth making a film about, and the desire to work with Daniel certainly, once that presented itself as a possibility, certainly drove the engine for me to write it and to finish it and to get it to him.

Day-Lewis: I never really saw him as a miserable pr*ck, but I suppose… I don’t know what the challenge is. The challenge, I dare say, is the same as it always is, which is to try and discover a life that isn’t your own.

Plainview, as he came to me in Paul’s beautiful script, was a man whose life I didn’t understand at all. It was a life that was completely mysterious to me and that unleashed a fatal curiosity, which I had no choice but to pursue.

With Golden Globe nominations being handed out this week, a pair of dramas are in line to score top billing.

There Will Be Blood was named 2007’s Best Picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association last weekend, with Paul Thomas Anderson winning Best Director and Daniel Day-Lewis nabbing a Best Actor award for the movie.

French actress Marion Cotillard was named Best Actress for La Vie en Rose.

Daniel Day-Lewis stars in There Will Be Blood.

Meanwhile, The Boston Society of Film Critics named Ethan and Joel Coen’s No Country for Old Men as the year’s best film, with it star, Javier Bardem, winning Best Supporting Actor.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won the Boston award for Best Foreign Film, while Butterfly director Julian Schnabel beat out the Coens for Best Director. The Washington, D.C, Area Film Critics Association also named No Country for Old Men as its top film choice.

Opening in January, There Will Be Blood is earning Oscar buzz for Best Picture and Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis).

Check out the movie trailer for it below: