{"id":139159,"date":"2025-09-12T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:13:07","slug":"daniel-day-lewis-admits-his-retirement-was-a-little-dramatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139159\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Day-Lewis admits his retirement was a little dramatic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports of Daniel Day-Lewis\u2019 retirement were greatly exaggerated, but the Oscar winner knows it\u2019s partly his own fault. \u201cLooking back on it now\u2014I would have done well to just keep my mouth shut, for sure,\u201d the Lincoln star recently told Rolling Stone<\/a> of his widely-shared 2017 announcement<\/a>. \u201cIt just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work,\u201d he continued. In fairness, the actor\u2019s statement, released by a representative after his turn in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s Phantom Thread, never explicitly used the word \u201cretire.\u201d It did seem pretty damn definitive, though\u2014at least at the time. \u201cDaniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor,\u201d it read. \u201cHe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Day-Lewis might want to figure out a slightly more subtle way to make a career pivot the next time he has the urge to try something new. \u201cApparently, I\u2019ve been accused of retiring twice now. I never meant to retire from anything!\u201d he said. \u201cI just wanted to work on something else for a while.\u201d In 1997, it was cobbling, per The Guardian<\/a>. Between completing The Boxer that year and starring in Gangs Of New York five years later, the true multi-hyphenate spent time working as an apprentice to Italian shoemaker Stefano Bemer. In 1989, he also walked out of a production of Hamlet at the National Theatre mid-performance<\/a>, which posed a slight problem as he was the one playing the titular Dane. He hasn\u2019t returned to stage acting since.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even with all these dramatic exits\u2014whether he intended them to be as dramatic as they appeared or not\u2014the actor says he \u201cnever, ever stopped loving the work.\u201d \u201cBut there were aspects of the way of life that went with it that I\u2019d never come to terms with\u2014from the day I started out to today,\u201d he explained to RS. \u201cThere\u2019s something about that process that left me feeling hollowed out at the end of it\u2026 I understood that it was all part of the process, and that there would be a regeneration eventually. And it was only really in the last experience [making Phantom Thread] that I began to feel quite strongly that maybe there wouldn\u2019t be that regeneration anymore. That I just probably should just keep away from it, because I didn\u2019t have anything else to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Luckily, eight years away\u2014and the prospect of collaborating with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis\u2014gave him the regeneration he needed. The two co-wrote the screenplay for Anemone, which marks the younger Day-Lewis\u2019 directorial debut. \u201cAs I get older, it just takes me longer and longer to find my way back to the place where the furnace is burning again,\u201d the actor continued. \u201cBut working with Ro, that furnace just lit up. And it was, from beginning to end, just pure joy to spend that time together with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anemone premieres this month at the New York Film Festival<\/a>. Hopefully it won\u2019t be another eight years until Day-Lewis\u2019 furnace gets lit again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of Daniel Day-Lewis\u2019 retirement were greatly exaggerated, but the Oscar winner knows it\u2019s partly his own fault.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-139159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}