Daniel Day-Lewis says he’s retiring from acting, which will make his upcoming film, \u00ab\u00a0Phantom Thread, \u00a0\u00bb his final one.<\/b>
\nDaniel Day-Lewis, one of the most widely respected actors of his generation and a three-time Oscar-winner, says he’s retiring from acting.
The 60-year-old actor announced Tuesday that he has shot his last film and performed in his last play. That makes Paul Thomas Anderson’s already filmed \u00ab\u00a0Phantom Thread, \u00a0\u00bb due out in December, his final film.
\u00ab\u00a0Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor, \u00a0\u00bb his representative Leslee Dart said in a statement. \u00ab\u00a0He 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.\u00a0\u00bb
The announcement sent shockwaves through Hollywood, where Day-Lewis is revered as possibly the finest actor of his time. But Day-Lewis has also long been an exceptionally deliberate performer who often spends years preparing for a role, crafting his characters with an uncommon, methodical completeness.
\u00ab\u00a0I don’t dismember a character into its component parts and then kind of bolt it all together, and off you go, \u00a0\u00bb Day-Lewis told the AP in 2012, discussing Steven Spielberg’s \u00ab\u00a0Lincoln.\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbI tend to try and allow things to happen slowly, over a long period of time. As I feel I’m growing into a sense of that life, if I’m lucky, I begin to hear a voice.\u00a0\u00bb
He has stepped away from film before. In the late 1990s, he famously apprenticed as a shoemaker in Florence, Italy \u2014 a period he called \u00ab\u00a0semi-retirement.\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbPhantom Thread, \u00a0\u00bb which Focus Features will release Dec. 25, is his first film in five years, following \u00ab\u00a0Lincoln.\u00a0\u00bb
A five-time Academy Award nominee, Day-Lewis is the only one to ever win best actor three times. He earned Oscars for \u00ab\u00a0My Left Foot, \u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbLincoln\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0There Will Be Blood.\u00a0\u00bb
Day-Lewis, who is married to writer-director Rebecca Miller with three children, broke through with 1985’s \u00ab\u00a0My Beautiful Laundrette, \u00a0\u00bb by Stephen Frears. His films since then have included \u00ab\u00a0The Last of the Mohicans, \u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbThe Age of Innocence, \u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbIn the Name of the Father\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0Gangs of New York.\u00a0\u00bb
His last play was in 1989, a National Theatre production of \u00ab\u00a0Hamlet, \u00a0\u00bb in London. Day-Lewis infamously walked out in the middle of a performance, and never returned to the stage again.
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