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Can't say I'd miss him, seeing as I've never seen a single thing he's ever been in.
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That's okay, Justin, a lot of others have. (Some of them at the Motion Picture Academy, I hear.)
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The ultimate method actor. Also a woodworker and cobbler. Born in the fires of unorthodoxy.
He may well be back. He courts no fame.
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I wasn't a fan until I saw There Will Be Blood. "That was one goddamn helluva show." Indeed.
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I wasn't a fan until I saw There Will Be Blood. "That was one goddamn helluva show." Indeed.
At least there'll be one more film with Paul Thomas Anderson - "Phantom Thread" is scheduled for December.
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Maybe he had a bad experience on Phantom Thread (now in post production) and said, "I'm too old and too rich for this sh--"
Also, if the title character in Lincoln 2 is frozen, revived, and becomes a superhero, Tom Cruise would get the part.
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Jun 21, 2017 - 11:12 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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I believe he announced something like this before and was talked into coming out of retirement on his last few projects.
Here's Day-Lewis' retirement history, as recounted in an article in Vanity Fair:
In 1989, Day-Lewis quit stage acting. . .while still onstage during a performance of Hamlet at the National Theatre. The story goes that Day-Lewis got to the scene where the Shakespeare character speaks to his father’s ghost before inexplicably collapsing into sobs and walking off—never to appear onstage again. (Imagine, for a second, that this had happened in the camera-phone age.) The reported rationale: Day-Lewis was such an effective method actor that he somehow managed to summon his own father’s ghost on that very stage. Day-Lewis has since clarified—or further confused the public—by telling Time in 2012, “[T]o some extent I probably saw my father’s ghost every night, because of course if you’re working in a play like Hamlet, you explore everything through your own experience. . .So yes, of course, it was communication with my own dead father.”
In the late 90s, after filming 1997’s Jim Sheridan drama THE BOXER, Day-Lewis went off-the-grid for a five-year period during which time the actor took up woodworking and shoemaking, even apprenticing for 10 months under the late Italian shoemaker Stefano Bemer. (The official Stefano Bemer Web site now boasts this trivia note as free P.R., explaining, “What many do not know is what brought them together: perfectionism. . .DD Lewis and Stefano shared the same passion for their respective forms of art.”)
Five years later, when Day-Lewis re-emerged to begin work on Martin Scorsese’s 2002 drama THE GANGS OF NEW YORK, the actor threw himself into similarly old-world crafts to prepare to play his character—an 1860s gang leader—by apprenticing as a butcher and hiring circus performers to teach him how to throw knives.
After filming, though, Day-Lewis retreated again, and attempted to explain the rational behind his exhaustive, immersive, all-in-or-all-out cycle of method acting: “As an actor you learn, you learn; you shoot and shoot for a long time; and then you're dog meat,” the actor said, according to a 2002 article in The Irish Times titled “Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Film Business.” He continued, “And then you realize that you learned nothing. And that’s a difficult thing to live with.”
A decade later, in 2013—after more of these Day-Lewis method-moratorium-on-acting phases, and shortly after winning an Oscar for LINCOLN—the London Sunday Times reported that Day-Lewis was again planning an acting break. He told friends that he was taking a five-year sabbatical so that he could spend time with family on his farm in County Wicklow, Ireland and learn “rural skills” like stonemasonry.
“When the work is done, it’s to this place that I return to as a refuge,” Day-Lewis said of his home in Ireland in 2013, before offering another clue about these somewhat common escapes. “It’s a place where I feel the freedom to lie fallow if I need to for a period of time.”
And though he has gone as long as five years between projects before, Day-Lewis has said previously that his time away from Hollywood isn’t necessarily exclusive of his creative process.
“My life as it is away from movie set is a life where I follow my curiosity just as avidly as when I am working,” he explained to The Guardian in 2008. “It is with a very positive sense that I keep away from the work for a while.”
The actor reiterated that sentiment to L.A. Weekly, indicating that his time away from acting is necessary to his art: “I never went away. I never left myself. I simply need the time I spend not working in films, the time away, to do the work that I love to do in the way that I love to do it.”
So if you happen upon Day-Lewis in some small Irish town, apprenticing at the local bakery, maybe don’t ask him about acting or this so-called retirement. Instead, ask about the baguettes, leave him to work on his crust craftsmanship—and hopefully, in the process, recharge for another screen role.
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