Daniel Day-Lewis: Comack on a film premiere with his son

Eight years after his last film “Am Seidenen Faden”: Daniel Day-Lewis (68) is back on the big screen. On Sunday “Anemone” celebrated its premiere at the New York Film Festival. The three-time Oscar winner attended the event alongside his son Ronan Day-Lewis (27). The father-son excursion was not a pure family pleasure, but a working date. Ronan Day-Lewis directed “Anemone”, he wrote the script together with his father.

“It is an indescribable privilege to be with all of them here tonight,” said the director’s debut, according to media reports, to visitors to the Lincoln Center. “I’m speechless,” continued the junior.

Daniel Day-Lewis plays a former British soldier in “Anemone” who has lived in the forest for two decades. His brother played by Sean Bean (66) scare him out of isolation by confronting him with a dark past.

Father and son quickly got into a rhythm at work, said Ronan Day-Lewis “over the years, since Ronan was still very, very small, we have worked together on many different things,” his father told the industry magazine.

“We always felt very comfortable in the presence of the other, and that was actually a sequel to it,” continued Daniel Day-Lewis. And: “It was just a larger toy box in which we could play.”

Ronan Day-Lewis in turn points out on stage that “Anemone” is not her first film together. When he was a child, he and his father shot a commercial with his turtle for fun.

Ronan is Daniel Day-Lewi’s first son with Rebecca Miller (63). With the daughter of writer Arthur Miller, he still has son Cashel. From his relationship with actress Isabelle Adjani (70), Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis (30), who is also active as an actor, comes from his actor.

Daniel Day-Lewis announced in 2017 to want to go into acting pension. He had already announced the same thing in 1997, in 2002 he was worded for “Gangs of New York”. Recently he recently had retired.