Day-Lewis Returns in First Film Since Retiring 8 Years Ago
A first look at the Oscar winner in his new father-son project, ‘Anemone.’
Daniel Day-Lewis, the only man to have won three Best Actor Oscars, has emerged from his retirement in a first-look photo of his new film, Anemone.
The project from Focus Features will world premiere t the N.Y. Film Fest, which kicks off Sept. 26th and runs through Oct. 13 — and marks the return of the Oscar winner after an eight-year “retirement.”
The film marks the feature directorial debut of Lewis’ son, Ronan Day-Lewis, and was co-written by both men.
The official description of Anemone calls the film “an absorbing family drama … about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.”
Set in Northern England, the film follows a middle-aged man (Sean Bean) who “sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.”
Anemone is Day-Lewis’ first feature film since 2017’s Phantom Thread.
Before the film’s release, the actor had issued a statement: “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He 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.”
