Why Daniel Day Lewis Retired?

I didn't want to get sucked back into another project. All my life, I've mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don't know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion. It was something I had to do."

Did Daniel Day-Lewis stop acting?

He retired in 2017

Day-Lewis, during the interview, had a hard time defining exactly what made him quit acting, but discussed no longer finding value in his work. He said, "If an audience believes it, that should be good enough for me.

What happened to actor Daniel Day-Lewis?

Following his performance in The Boxer (1997), Day-Lewis retired from acting for three years, taking up a new profession as an apprentice shoe-maker in Italy. He returned to acting in 2000, reuniting with Scorsese in the historical crime film Gangs of New York (2002), winning a BAFTA and receiving an Oscar nomination.