Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky | Peter Bradshaw

Ronan Day-Lewis has brought his father out of retirement to shoot Anemone, yet any great actor knows the difficulties of working with young, inexperienced directors

Seven years ago, I recorded my swooning-fanboy professional farewell to Daniel Day-Lewis who at the age of 60 had announced his retirement from movies. He was just going to do Phantom Thread with Paul Thomas Anderson, apparently, and then that would be it.

No. Surely not. I dared to hope that he would change his mind. Now he has dramatically retired from retirement, and is shooting a movie called Anemone, co-starring Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. It should be great news. It is great news. And yet many DDL fans will have woken up this morning, pondering a strange and disturbing dream they’ve had about Jaden Smith, son of Will. Whatever can it mean?

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