{"id":573676,"date":"2026-07-29T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573676\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:24:10","slug":"mike-leigh-says-hell-likely-retire-after-next-film-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573676\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Leigh Says He’ll Likely Retire After Next Film Due to Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMike Leigh<\/a>, one of the independent movie world\u2019s most celebrated directors with a career spanning six decades and wins including multiple BAFTA and both a Palme d\u2019Or and Golden Lion, has said he\u2019s likely to be hanging up his filmmaking boots. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking at a Golden Globes-hosted event in London, the 83-year-old said that \u201cTender Loving Care,\u201d his latest feature, would probably the last he directs. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbsolutely. I think very likely, yes,\u201d he told Variety\u2018s sister publication Indiewire when asked whether the film \u2014\u00a0recently added to the lineup at Toronto \u2014\u00a0would be his final feature. \u201cI mean, I know the girls don\u2019t like to hear me say that, but I think that is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLeigh has spoken previously about his struggles with myositis, a disease where the immune system attacks the muscles and has severly impacted his mobility.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was lucky in making this last film \u2014 people were very helpful,\u201d he added at the roundtable. \u201cYou\u2019ll see when I get up that my two friends all helped me to stand up. So I probably can\u2019t do much more. And doing a play is even more physically demanding, strangely enough, than making a film, because on a film you can be moved around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTender Loving Care\u201d is a comedy drama starring Leigh\u2019s longtime collaborator and partner Marion Bailey alongside Paul Jesson (\u201cAll or Nothing\u201d), Kate O\u2019Flynn (\u201cHappy-Go-Lucky\u201d) and Alice Bailey Johnson (\u201cHard Truths\u201c) that has been wrapped in typical Leigh secrecy since it was first unveiled. Plot details are unknown aside from it being a \u201can insightful exploration of the contemporary world.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tFrequent collaborators behind the camera include costume designer Jacqueline Durran, hair and make-up designer Nora Robertson, production designer Jane Brodie, composer Gary Yershon, editor Tania Reddin, director of photography Lucy Bristow and casting director Nina Gold.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs with his previous, critically acclaimed previous film \u201cHard Truths,\u201d\u00a0Bleecker Street and StudioCanal are distributing the film in the U.S. and U.K., respectively. <\/p>\n

\n\tWere \u201cTender Loving Care\u201d to be Leigh\u2019s last, it would bring to an end a glittering career of an iconoclast filmmaking and the director of beloved films such as \u201cNaked,\u201d \u201cHappy-Go-Lucky,\u201d \u201cAnother Year, \u201cLife Is Sweet,\u201d \u201cMr. Turner\u201d and \u201cSecrets & Lies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Leigh, one of the independent movie world\u2019s most celebrated directors with a career spanning six decades and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,96470],"class_list":["post-573676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mike-leigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}