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Daniel Day-Lewis<\/span><\/strong> has said in a new interview that his 2017 announcement about retiring from acting was \u201csuch grandiose gibberish\u201d and that he never intended to leave acting completely. Day-Lewis has twice stepped away from performing on screen in his career. The first time was in 1997, when he left his career as an actor to work as a shoemaker\u2019s apprentice. He eventually returned to appear in Martin Scorsese\u2019s Gangs of New York (2002). He again announced his retirement in 2017. However, he has since returned to star in Anemone, a movie helmed by his son, Ronan.<\/p>\n Day-Lewis told Rolling Stone<\/a> in a new interview that he shouldn\u2019t have said anything about retiring in 2017. \u201cLooking back on it now \u2014 I would have done well to just keep my mouth shut, for sure,\u201d the Oscar winner told the outlet. \u201cIt just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work\u2026 Apparently, I\u2019ve been accused of retiring twice now. I never meant to retire from anything! I just wanted to work on something else for a while,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The last movie Day-Lewis worked on before his most recent retirement announcement was Phantom Thread, which earned him an Oscar nod in the Best Actor category. He explained to Rolling Stone that he never stopped loving acting, but \u201cthere were aspects of the way of life that went with it\u201d that he never came to terms with throughout his career. Day-Lewis noted that this process left him experiencing a \u201chollowed out\u201d feeling. He acknowledged that he knew that this was part of the process and that there would be \u201cregeneration eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n However, with Phantom Thread, Day-Lewis started to \u201cfeel quite strongly\u201d that the above-mentioned regeneration would not happen, prompting his decision. The 68-year-old actor revealed he returned to work together with Ronan and potentially indicated that he would continue acting after Anemone.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I get older, it just takes me longer and longer to find my way back to the place where the furnace is burning again,\u201d The Lincoln actor said. \u201cBut working with Ro, that furnace just lit up. And it was, from beginning to end, just pure joy to spend that time together with him,\u201d he further stated.<\/p>\n Anemone debuts in limited theaters in the U.S. on October 3, 2025, before receiving a wider release a week later.<\/p>\n The post Daniel Day-Lewis on Why Announcing Retirement Was a Mistake<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Daniel Day-Lewis has said in a new interview that his 2017 announcement about retiring from acting was \u201csuch grandiose gibberish\u201d and that he never intended to leave acting completely. Day-Lewis has twice stepped away from performing on screen in his career. The first time was in 1997, when he left his career as an actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[343329,321120,352394,314737],"class_list":["post-2013543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-anemone","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-day-lewis","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Daniel-Day-Lewis-on-Why-Announcing-Retirement-Was-a-Mistake.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Daniel Day-Lewis says he should\u2019ve kept his \u2018mouth shut\u2019 about retiring<\/h2>\n