Daniel Day-Lewis, 66, will STAY retired from movies as streaming giants have ‘7,000 choices’ but ‘none of them are good’ claims My Left Foot director
Daniel Day-Lewis, 66, currently has no plans to retire after leaving film seven years ago.
The legendary stage actor delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film Phantom Thread before retiring from acting completely.
Last month, however, he sparked a swirl of comeback rumors when he was spotted meeting with Jim Sheridan and Steven Spielberg, both of whom have directed Daniel in Oscar-winning performances.
But Jim, who made three films with Daniel including My Left Foot, has now quashed hopes of Daniel returning to Hollywood.
‘He says he’s done, I keep talking to him. I would love to do something with him again,” the Irish filmmaker noted Screen daily.
Daniel Day-Lewis, 66, currently has no plans to retire after leaving film seven years ago; pictured in January at the National Board Of Review Awards Gala
The legendary stage actor delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film Phantom Thread (pictured) before retiring from acting completely
“He’s just like everyone else: he opens the streamers and there are seven thousand choices, none of them are good,” he explained.
‘Film has moved from the public domain to a private domain – you have a remote control, you can stop it. It’s not the same experience.’
Nevertheless, the Dublin-born director said: ‘It would be great to see Daniel come back and do something ‘because he is that good.’
Daniel won his very first Academy Award for My Left Foot, a 1989 drama in which he played a man suffering from cerebral palsy.
In 1993, he and Jim worked together again on In The Name Of The Father, a crime drama about the Troubles that earned Daniel another Oscar nomination.
They returned to the theme of the IRA with the 1997 film The Boxer, starring Daniel alongside Emily Watson and Brian Cox.
Daniel won a total of three Oscars, including one for his thrilling 2007 western There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
His latest Oscar triumph came for Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln, in which Daniel played the title role of America’s 16th president.
Daniel won his very first Academy Award for My Left Foot, a 1989 drama in which he played a man suffering from cerebral palsy
In 1993, he and Jim worked together again on In The Name Of The Father, a crime drama about the Troubles that earned Daniel another Oscar nomination.
Daniel is pictured on the set of his 1997 film The Boxer with director Jim Sheridan, who also helmed My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father
Paul and Daniel reunited for what would turn out to be the latter’s final film: Phantom Thread, loosely inspired by the life of Cristobal Balenciaga.
A few months before the film was to be released, Daniel dramatically announced through a spokesperson that he was retiring.
“This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will comment further on this matter,” the statement concluded.
In a subsequent interview with Whe explained that he had wanted to retire several times and finally gave the announcement to force his own hand.
‘I knew it was unusual to make a statement. But I did want to draw a line. “I didn’t want to get sucked into another project,” he said.
“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.”