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Actor Paul Dano, 'There Will Be Blood'

Paul Dano
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Paul Dano

In Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood, the young actor Paul Dano plays a rural preacher at odds with the oilman (Daniel Day-Lewis) at the center of the story.

Dano previously appeared in Little Miss Sunshine, playing the teen who was an elective mute.

This interview was originally broadcast on January 8, 2008.

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