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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Shaker on June 21, 2017, 11:11:39 AM

Title: Daniel Day-Lewis retires
Post by: Shaker on June 21, 2017, 11:11:39 AM
A surprise - and a pity, as he's a phenomenal actor. Happy retirement DDL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40349669
Title: Re: Daniel Day-Lewis retires
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 22, 2017, 02:33:56 PM
I suppose though he has 'retired' before and there isn't much left for him to do.  Good, as opposed to Hollywood roles, must be rarer for him.

Tbh I generally found him more an actor to admire rather than anything else. There seems often a performance as well as acting.
Title: Re: Daniel Day-Lewis retires
Post by: Shaker on June 22, 2017, 02:53:18 PM
I suppose though he has 'retired' before

This is very true - in fact I seem to recall that a few years back he gave up acting and went off to be a cobbler in the middle of nowhere in Italy.

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Tbh I generally found him more an actor to admire rather than anything else. There seems often a performance as well as acting.
True in some cases - There Will Be Blood for example. But he was astonishing as Abraham Lincoln, and My Left Foot is a once-in-a-lifetime performance in anybody's book, surely
Title: Re: Daniel Day-Lewis retires
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 22, 2017, 02:59:06 PM
Gangs of New York was another where I felt the performance, also Last of the Mohicans. But I'm being picky, I agree about Lincoln and My Left Foot, and I will remember watching My Beautiful Launderette fairly close to Room With a View and being stunned it was the same actor.