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The vanishing of Daniel Day-Lewis: How a great actor lost the will to go on

The vanishing of Daniel Day-Lewis: How a great actor lost the will to go on

As the three-time Oscar winner’s breakthrough film, ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’, is re-released in cinemas, Xan Brooks looks at the career and apparent retirement of the totemic actor – and the project that may have pushed him over the edge

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