Daniel Day-Lewis Reconsiders Retirement For Mysterious Movie Directed By Son Ronan

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Actor Daniel Day-Lewis on stage during The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Official Academy Screening of Phantom December, 2017 New York City (Getty Images for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

For a brief moment three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis came out of retirement to reunite with Gangs of New York director Martin Scorsese at an awards night this year.

Presenting the best director award for Killers of the Flower Moon at the National Board of Review Awards in January, Day-Lewis said working with the director was “one of the greatest joys and unexpected privileges of my life”.

Scorsese returned the compliment, telling a packed gala ballroom that “we did two films together and it’s one of the greatest experiences of my life”.

Maybe there’s time for one more. Maybe! He’s the best.”

Now it seems the 67-year-old Co. Wicklow resident has officially come out of retirement (tempporarily?) after seven years to star in a film directed by his 26-year-old son, Ronan Day-Lewis.

Anemone is co-written by father and son. Co-starring Sean Bean and Samantha Morton, the film explores “the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds”.

In 2017, after making Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, Phantom Thread, London-born Day-Lewis called time on his career.

I did want to draw a line. I didn’t want to get sucked back into another project,” he told W Magazine later that year.

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.

Obviously the special reason Day-Lewis has come out of retirement is to support his son Ronan. Known for his dedication to method acting, Day-Lewis won three best actor Oscars, playing oil man Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.

Looking unrecognisable with a greying handlebar moustache, Day-Lewis and Bean (reportedly playing a former soldier) were spotted riding a retro Honda Africa Twin motorbike through Manchester on Sunday.

Set in the 1980s, the Manchester Evening News reported seeing several vintage cars lining surrounding streets, with filming also done in nearby Warrington.