Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has said he “never intended to retire” and “would have done well to just keep [his] mouth shut”.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine , Day-Lewis was speaking about his return to acting after an eight-year break in Anemone, a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. “It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work.”

He added: “Apparently, I’ve been accused of retiring twice now. I never meant to retire from anything! I just wanted to work on something else for a while.”

Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting in 2017 after the release of Phantom Thread , a film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson in which

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