Daniel Day-Lewis Retiring, World's Best Actor Position Accepting Applications
Daniel Day-Lewis is finished. The 60-year-old Brit is the only man with three Best Actor Oscars—1989's My Left Foot, 2007's There Will Be Blood and 2012's Lincoln, his most recent work. His rep tells Variety:
“Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject.”
No reason was given, but it's understandable, knowing the unbelievable, over-the-top amount of Method actor study Day-Lewis is known to embark on before his parts. Variety reminds us how he learned Czech for The Unbearable Lightness of Being and "confined himself to a wheelchair for My Left Foot to play [Christy] Brown, who had cerebral palsy."
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