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{{quote|"''Gangs of New York.'' The story of the Irish Immigrant experience, as told by an Italian, an Englishman and a Cuban." <ref>Daniel Day-Lewis was born and grew up in London but has dual British and Irish citizenship.</ref>}}
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Liam Neeson (an Irishman) actually plays an Irishman for once.
* [[Throw It In]]: A lot of Daniel Day-Lewis' best moments as Bill the Butcher weren't in the script but were ad-libbed, such as the part where he taps his glass eye with a knife, and when he says "Woopsy daisy!" after destroying Jenny's locket during his knife act.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: When the film was first conceived in 1978, [[Martin Scorsese]] originally planned to cast [[Dan Aykroyd]] as Amsterdam Vallon and [[John Belushi]] as Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting. The project fell apart after Belushi died. A cast reshuffle had [[Mel Gibson]] as Amsterdam Vallon and Willem Dafoe as The Butcher. Eventually, [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] was cast as Amsterdam Vallon and [[Daniel Day-Lewis]] was cast as The Butcher.
** [[Robert De Niro]] was cast in the role of The Butcher, but he dropped out when he learned he'd have to spend six months in Europe filming.
** The initial concept for ''Gangs of New York'' was also quite different from the film, indeed Scorsese stated that he always wanted to make a film about the period and setting but it wasn't always certain that the final film was the intended story, noting that he also planned a trilogy or a sequel that would lead to the construction of the Statue of Liberty.
** After September 11th, Scorsese considered removing the World Trade Center at the end of the final montage, but didn't go through with it as the tone of the sequence was about the city being built, and ending on part of it being destroyed would wreck the meaning.
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