Daniel Day-Lewis has said he never intended to retire from acting and described the former comments he made about stepping away from performing as “grandiose gibberish” in a new feature interview.

“I would have done well to just keep my mouth shut, for sure,” Day-Lewis told Rolling Stone when quizzed on his most recent retirement announcement in 2017. Day-Lewis also launched a failed retirement in 1997.

“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. 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 was talking to Rolling Stone to promote Anemone , th

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