Dillon Freasier

Dillon Freasier has one of those incredible legendary Hollywood stories that doesn't happen often. A speeding ticket given to a casting director and a nice talk afterwards between that director and the police officer provided the chance of a lifetime to this local Texas kid in appearing in Paul Thomas Anderson's monumental film There Will Be Blood (2007). The officer was nothing less than Dillon Freasier's mother and the casting director had the chance to see the kid and wanted to cast him in the film, but the mother wasn't so sure she wanted her son to appear in a movie and didn't even know who was Daniel Day-Lewis, the leading actor who would be sharing most of the scenes with Dillon. Since Day-Lewis previous success was Gangs of New York (2002), the casting director provided a copy of that film to the mother. She was appalled in seeing such an intense and dangerous performance and couldn't imagine such man acting along her beloved kid. The film's team rushed in sending another film with Day-Lewis, the acclaimed The Age of Innocence (1993), where he played an educated gentleman, and that role convinced her in allowing Dillon to be part of Anderson's project.