Daniel Day-Lewis had done it all, it seemed: working through a wish-list of dream directors, inhabiting every role as if he were reborn as the character. He won three Best Actor Oscars, for My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012), before announcing, around the time of 2017’s Phantom Thread , that he was leaving the profession behind. Now, though, he’s back with a new film, Anemone , directed by his son, Ronan, and co-written by them both.

“It was just a lovely gift that I was given,” says Day-Lewis, talking to Empire alongside Ronan in New York last month, for a major interview discussing Anemone . “Most particularly it being Ronan’s first film, and having been there every day with him from the beginning, that experience was unique and be

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