Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on Anemone. The film, Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton.
The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises. ( Also read: Daniel Day-Lewis says he is done with acting, finds no film these days worth watching ) Daniel Day Lewis' comeback Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film Phantom Thread, the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting.
“All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion,” he told W Magazine in 2017. "It was something I had to do.” Since then, his appearances in public have been infrequent.
In January, though, he made a surprise appearance at the National Board of Review Awards to present an award to Martin Scorsese, who directed him in Gangs of New York (2002) and The Age of Innocence (1993). All about Anemone Anemone, currently in production, is described as exploring “the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds.” Ronan Day-Lewis,.
