Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is ending his retirement from acting to star in his son’s directorial debut.
The 67-year-old British actor quit acting after appearing in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film Phantom Thread and has largely stayed away from public life since then.
But he is now set to star in the film Anemone, directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis, US independent production company Focus Features confirmed on Tuesday.
The film, which stars Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley and Safia Oakley-Green, is currently filming in Manchester.
The script was written by father and son and “explores the complex relationships between fathers, sons, and brothers and the dynamics of familial bonds,” Focus Features said.
Daniel Day-Lewis made his screen debut as a teenager in Sunday Bloody Sunday and went on to have a number of memorable period drama roles, including Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans. played.
He is known for his dedication to method acting, playing disabled Irish writer Christy Brown in My Left Foot, oilman Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood, and Stephen He won three Best Actor Oscars for his role as Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg’s “Lincoln”.
Day-Lewis was made a Knight of the British Empire by the Duke of Cambridge in 2014.
In June 2017, several months before the release of Phantom Thread, it was announced that he would be retiring from acting.
“Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer work as an actor,” a statement from his representative read.
“He has great gratitude to all his collaborators and audiences over the years. This is a personal decision and neither he nor his representatives will be commenting further on this matter.”
He has previously taken long breaks from the industry, including working as an apprentice shoemaker in Florence in the 1990s.
“My life away from film sets is one where I follow my curiosity as passionately as I do when I’m working,” he told the Observer in 2008. I’ll be working for a while. It always seemed natural to me that it should be useful in my work. ”
In January, Day-Lewis presented the award to American director Martin Scorsese for his Western film “The Murders of the Flower Moon.”
The actor, who starred in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York and Age of Innocence, said working with the director was “one of the greatest joys and unexpected privileges of my life.” spoke.
