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Dillon Freasier (born 1996) was born in the town of Fort Davis, Texas. Freasier was not an actor when chosen for his role in There Will Be Blood. After several unsuccessful attempts to cast established Hollywood child actors, casting director Cassandra Kulukundis began searching for potential actors in rural schools near Marfa, Texas, the film's primary filming location. At a Fort Davis school with "maybe eight boys of the right age", Freasier was singled out by his principal. Kulukundis said, "he just stayed in my mind, so I called [his mother] at home and asked if it was all right if I... MORE

Dillon Freasier (born 1996) was born in the town of Fort Davis, Texas. Freasier was not an actor when chosen for his role in There Will Be Blood. After several unsuccessful attempts to cast established Hollywood child actors, casting director Cassandra Kulukundis began searching for potential actors in rural schools near Marfa, Texas, the film's primary filming location. At a Fort Davis school with "maybe eight boys of the right age", Freasier was singled out by his principal. Kulukundis said, "he just stayed in my mind, so I called [his mother] at home and asked if it was all right if I could come over that night." While racing to another school to see more boys, Kulukundis was pulled over by a traffic cop, who happened to be Freasier's mother, and was let off with a warning. According to The New York Times, director Paul Thomas Anderson "...really wanted a kid who'd grown up around ranches and horses rather than someone coming in and trying to fake that." In an interview, Daniel Day-Lewis told the story of what happened when Freasier's mother researched the past roles of the man who would be playing alongside her son: "She thought she better check out this bunch of people taking LESS