Daniel Day-Lewis on His Screen Return With ‘Anemone’ and Method Acting Not Being “a Cult”

Daniel Day-Lewis on His Screen Return With ‘Anemone’ and Method Acting Not Being “a Cult”

The star who retired from acting in 2017 spoke at a packed Screen Talk at the BFI London Film Festival, where he was joined by his director son Ronan.

Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Method Acting, Takes Surprise Question From Paul Thomas Anderson & Says He Wouldn’t Be Able To Make ‘My Left Foot’ In 2025 During LFF Q&A

“I’m still alive,” Daniel Day-Lewis quipped this morning as he sat down in the NFT 1 at the BFI Southbank for a career Q&A session with veteran British critic Mark Kermode.  The veteran actor and three-time Oscar winner is in town to present his acting comeback, Anemone, at the London Film Festival.  Opening the session, […]

Anemone review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns in his son's debut film

After starring in some of the most iconic movies of the last 40 years – Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, The Age of Innocence – Daniel Day-Lewis retired after 2017’s Phantom Thread. Perhaps the most famous of the method actors, his commitment to the bit – three years in the gym for The Boxer, weeks in a wheelchair for My Left Foot, learning how to make a canoe for Last of the Mohicans – left him feeling “hollowed out”. So it was with some…