Rolling Stone<\/a> published Wednesday, Day-Lewis senior reflected on his acting return.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cI would have done well to just keep my mouth shut,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The pair revealed that they started writing the script in 2020.\n <\/p>\n
\n Day-Lewis said: \u201cI had some residual sadness because I knew Ronan was going to go on to make films, and I was walking away from that. I thought, wouldn\u2019t it be lovely if we could do something together and find a way of maybe containing it, so that it didn\u2019t necessarily have to be something that required all the paraphernalia of a big production.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n As time went on, the question arose of whether or not he would consider acting in the film.\n <\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cWhen we had a script and we weren\u2019t sure what the next steps were, there was some part of me that began to feel, you know, certain reservations about being back in the public world again.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n He told his son he was free to do what he liked with the script, but then \u201cRo made it pretty clear that he wasn\u2019t going to do it if I didn\u2019t do it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Day-Lewis explained his reservations, saying: \u201cIt was just kind of a low-level fear, (an) anxiety about re-engaging with the business of filmmaking.\u201d He said that he\u2019d always \u201cloved\u201d the work.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut there were aspects of the way of life that went with it that I\u2019d never come to terms with \u2013 from the day I started out to today. There\u2019s something about that process that left me feeling hollowed out at the end of it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Daniel Day-Lewis has revealed that he \u201cnever intended to retire,\u201d eight years after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-131015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}