Daniel Day-Lewis ends seven years of retirement to pursue acting in his son’s film: NPR

Ronan Day Lewis and his father, Daniel Day-Lewis (center left to right) are collaborating on a feature film that will bring the decorated actor into retirement. The pair are seen here attending a film screening last year.

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Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis will appear in a new feature film, seven years after he abruptly announced the end of his acting career.

The movie, Anemonewill be directed by the actor’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, from a script the pair wrote together. Few details are available about the film other than that it focuses on intergenerational family bonds, especially the dynamics between fathers, sons and brothers.

Daniel Day-Lewis, 67, will star in the film alongside veteran English actors Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. According to the newspaper, Bean and Day-Lewis were spotted together on a motorcycle on a street in Manchester, England, last weekend. Manchester Evening News.

In 2017, Day-Lewis was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock in his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom wire. The same year, Day-Lewis, a celebrity who long guarded his privacy, said in a short statement that he would no longer work as an actor.

Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a painter and filmmaker. This will be his first feature film, according to a statement from Focus Features, which is making the film with production company Plan B.

Daniel Day-Lewis won his most recent Oscar for best actor Lincolnin 2013. His previous victories were in 1989 My left foot and 2007 There will be blood.

“We couldn’t be more excited to be working with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator,” said Peter Kujawski, president of Focus Features, adding that the father son duo “have written a truly exceptional script.”

This isn’t the first time Daniel Day-Lewis has ended his film hiatus. He has spoken of an eternal desire to quit acting – and in the late 1990s he took a break to become an apprentice to a renowned shoemaker in Italy. In 2017, he issued his retirement announcement hoping it would last.

“I didn’t want to get sucked into another project,” he said W magazine in a rare interview about the decision. “All my life I’ve talked about quitting acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the urge to quit took root in me, and it became a compulsion. It was something I had to do. ”

But just when he thought he was out, he was pulled back in.