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Daniel Day-Lewis makes screen return in Anemone

Daniel Day-Lewis makes his long-awaited big-screen return in Anemone, the feature directorial debut of his son and co-writer Ronan Day-Lewis.

Anemone "explores the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons" with the legacy of The Troubles featuring in the trailer.

Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis stars opposite Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green in the film.

As well as being the co-writer of Anemone with his son Ronan Day-Lewis, Daniel Day-Lewis is also the film's executive producer alongside Brad Pitt.

Anemone will receive its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, which begins on 26 September.

It will open in Irish cinemas on Friday 7 November.

(L-R) Martin Scorsese and Daniel Day-Lewis attend the National Board of Review 2024 Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on 11 January, 2024 in New York City
Martin Scorsese and Daniel Day-Lewis at the National Board of Review's 2024 Awards Gala in New York City in January 2024

Daniel Day-Lewis retired from acting after Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film Phantom Thread, based on the fashion world of 1950s London, and has since largely avoided public life.

He won Oscars for playing the disabled Irish writer Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989), oil man Daniel Plainview in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), and the former US president Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).

Daniel Day-Lewis's return to the screen was announced last October.

In January 2024, he made an appearance in New York to present the American filmmaker Martin Scorsese with an award after his western epic Killers of the Flower Moon.

The actor, who starred in Scorsese's Gangs Of New York (2002) and The Age of Innocence (1993), called working with the director "one of the greatest joys and unexpected privileges of my life".

Additional Reporting: Press Association

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