Daniel Day-Lewis returns to screen in Anemone with son Ronan

Daniel Day-Lewis is returning to the screen after an eight-year absence to star in Anemone, a film written with and directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis that opens in select U.S. theaters on October 3, 2025, before expanding October 10. The veteran actor told Rolling Stone he was moved to reengage with acting largely so he and his son could make a film together, and he described his earlier announcement that he was retiring as "grandiose gibberish."

Day-Lewis, 68, said he never intended to leave acting permanently and that the decision he announced in 2017 grew out of exhaustion with aspects of the industry rather than a loss of love for the work. He told Rolling Stone that after making Phantom Thread he felt "hollowed out" and feared the regenerative energy he had relied on might not return. He added that working with his son reignited that energy. "As I get older, it just takes me longer and longer to find my way back to the place where the furnace is burning again," he said. "But 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."

Day-Lewis has stepped away from acting twice before. In 1997 he left...