Daniel Day-Lewis is set to come out of retirement to work on a new film with his son, a production company has confirmed. The three-time Oscar winner, who holds dual UK and Irish citizenship, has not appeared in a film since performing in Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film Phantom Thread. After his performance in the film set in the fashion world of 1950s London, 67-year-old Day-Lewis stunned the movie world by announcing his retirement after only acting in three films in ten years.
‘I haven’t figured it out. But it’s settled on me, and it’s just there ..
. I dread to use the over-used word ‘artist’, but there’s something of the responsibility of the artist that hung over me. I need to believe in the value of what I’m doing.
‘The work can seem vital, irresistible, even. And if an audience believes it, that should be good enough for me. But, lately, it isn’t,’ he said at the time.
However, it emerged on Wednesday through US production company Focus Features that the 67-year-old is stepping in front of the camera once again to star in a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. Titled Anemone, the film explores the relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and is written by the father and son duo. Games of Thrones’ Sean Bean, Minority Report’s Samantha Morton, 23-year-old Samuel Bottomley and fellow rising star Safia Oakley-Green are all scheduled to act in it.
The first of Day-Lewis’ Oscar wins arrived in 1990 for his p.
