Daniel Day-Lewis is legendary for going to punishing lengths to deliver authentic performances. He made the crew carry him around while playing wheelchair-bound Christy Brown in “My Left Foot,” spent a month in the wilderness to transform into an outdoorsman for “The Last of the Mohicans,” and devoted two years to studying dress making to become a fashion designer for “The Phantom Thread.” On set, the acting GOAT always stays in character, expecting everyone, directors included, to refer to him by his character’s name, even if the director is his son, Ronan Day-Lewis .

“It was intuitive that everyone called him Ray on set, and I did too,” Ronan Day-Lewis says of his dad’s immersive approach to playing a hermit living with a terrible secret in their new film, “ Anemone .” “But obvious

See Full Page