It’s official actor Daniel Day Lewis returned from his self-imposed retreat to star in Rome: Anemone, the directorial debut of his son Ronan. Focus Features revealed this information on Wednesday.
As reported, the movie produced by Focus Features and Plan B is the first film in which Aktor Daniel Day Lewis appeared since 2017’s Phantom Thread. Key roles in the film include actors Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green.
Anemone brings back Daniel Day Lewis to Focus Features, the studio that financed Phantom Thread.
“Focus Features and Plan B team up to produce Ronan Day-Lewis’s feature film ANEMONE starring Daniel Day Lewis, Sean Bean, ‘The Thorn’ actress Samantha Morton, actress Sam Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green,” the makers informed through an Instagram post with American entertainment magazine Deadline’s article.
Daniel Day Lewis
The screenplay of Anemone Was co-written by Day-Lewis and his son and the international distributor is Universal. The film is said to examine family relationships.
Film Anemone has a Director of Photography Ben Fordesman, while Jane Petrie is responsible for the costumes and Chris Oddy deals with the design of the film’s sets.
Gradually, it appears that Day Lewis retired from acting in 2017 on the eve of Phantom Thread by Paul Thomas Anderson which was released shortly after.
The British actor, 67 years old, first appeared on screen as a teenager in Sunday Bloody Sunday. He then starred in several classic period film dramas including his role as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans in 1992. For him, My Left Foot portraying Christy Brown, an Irish writer afflicted with cerebral palsy earned him the third Best Actor Academy Award. There Will Be Blood, playing an oil magnate Daniel Plainview won him an Oscar too. And lastly, Mr. Daniel Day Lewis starred as Abraham Lincoln in Mr. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.