After 1997’s The Boxer Day-Lewis went off-the-grid for a five-year period, in which the actor took up woodworking and shoemaking in Florence, Italy. Many speculate he’ll return to acting someday, but that’s mostly because this isn’t the first time Day-Lewis has announced his departure from the world of thespianism. That happened during the telling of the story, and I don’t really know why.” “But it’s not why the sadness came to stay. “Not wanting to see the film is connected to the decision I’ve made to stop working as an actor,” he recently told W Magazine. Despite the immense amount of preparation DDL has put into his most recent role as Reynolds Woodcock (Phantom Thread) – which included apprenticing under the costume department head at the NYC Ballet and actually sewing a Balenciaga dress – he has stated that seeing the finished film is not an intention of his. Daniel Day-Lewis has yet to give us an exact reason for his decision to retire from the acting world.
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