Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor with “My Left Foot” and was also nominated for “In the Name of the Father.”
“He says he’s done,” Sheridan told ScreenDaily on the topic of Day-Lewis staying retired. “I’d love to do something with him again. He’s like everybody else. He opens up the streamers and there’s seven thousand choices, none of them are good. Film has been moved out of the public domain into a private domain – you have a remote, you can stop it. It’s not the same experience. It’d be great to see Daniel coming back and doing something because he’s so good.”
“Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor,” the actor’s spokesperson said in a statement at the time. “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. ”
Part of the reason Day-Lewis announced his retirement in a public statement was so he’d have a harder time getting out of it. He wanted to “draw a line” in the sand and make concrete plans to phase out of Hollywood.
“I knew it was uncharacteristic to put out a statement,” Day-Lewis said. “But I did want to draw a line. I didn’t want to get sucked back into another project. All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion. It was something I had to do.”
Day-Lewis followed his Oscar win for Sheridan’s “My Left Foot” with two more wins in the category thanks to “There Will Be Blood” and “Lincoln”
