Daniel Day-Lewis says he ‘never intended to retire, really’

The three-time Oscar winner, whose forthcoming film Anemone is his first since 2017, says he feared he ‘didn’t have anything else to offer’Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has said he “never intended to retire” and “would have done well to just keep [his] mouth shut”.In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Day-Lewis was speaking about his return to acting after an eight-year break in Anemone, a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. “It 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.” Continue reading...

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