Daniel Day-Lewis Says He's Quitting Acting
His last film will be a new feature directed by Paul Thomas
Anderson and which has a Dec. 25 release date.
Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has announced his
retirement from acting.
Day-Lewis' publicist, Leslee Dart, said Tuesday in a
statement: “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is
immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many
years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will
make any further comment on this subject. ”
Day-Lewis' last film, which has a Dec. 25 release, will
reunite the actor with his There Will Be Blooddirector Paul Thomas
Anderson. While it has been reported to have the working title Phantom
Thread, the film is still officially listed by its distributor as Untitled
Paul Thomas Anderson Project.
From Annapurna Pictures and Focus Features,
it is set in 1950s London and will see Day-Lewis playing a fashion designer who
caters to high society. According to Dart, the actor plans to participate in
promotion for the movie, which is expected to be an awards-season contender.
Extremely selective about the roles he chooses and slow to
sign on to any movie, Day-Lewis retreated from film once before, in the late
1990s, in what he described as "semi-retirement" to return to one of
his main loves, woodworking, and at the time also moved to Florence, Italy,
where he took up shoemaking.
After five years, Martin Scorsese persuaded the
actor to return to filmmaking in Gangs of New York, in which
Day-Lewis played colorful gang leader William "Bill the Butcher"
Cutting.
Day-Lewis also famously quit the stage in 1989 when he walked out on a production of Hamletmid-performance
at the National Theatre in London, saying that he had seen his father's ghost.
He later explained that he'd been speaking metaphorically, saying, "I may
have said a lot of things in the immediate aftermath and to some extent I
probably saw my father's ghost every night, because of course if you're working
in a play like Hamlet you explore everything through your own experience."
The British actor, one of the most celebrated of his
generation and known for the intense dedication he brings to each role, has
been nominated for an Oscar five times and taken home the trophy on three
occasions — for 1989's My Left Foot, in which he played the
physically challenged artist Christy Brown; for 2007's There Will Be
Blood, in which he played a driven, turn-of-the-century oil baron; and for
2012's Lincoln, in which he played the title role of Abraham
Lincoln.
The son of poet Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon,
Day-Lewis made his film debut in an uncredited role as a child vandal in
1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday. Having trained at the Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School, he worked in England in both theater and television before he
began to attract attention on film, appearing in 1985 in both the gay love
story My Beautiful Laundrette and the E.M. Forster
adaptation A Room With a View.
His roles have ranged from an American backwoodsman in The
Last of the Mohicans to an Irish revolutionary in In the Name
of the Father to a New York aristocrat in The Age of Innocence to
a Puritan farmer in The Crucible.
Day-Lewis, who lives in Ireland with his wife, actress
Rebecca Miller, has been quoted
in the past as saying, "In every actor's life, there is a moment when
they ask themselves, 'Is it really seemly for me still to be doing this?'"
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