Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie made Daniel Day-Lewis so sad, he quit acting
There’s less than a month to go until Phantom Thread, the latest Paul Thomas Anderson film, opens in theaters, finally answering our burning questions about what exactly is going on between Daniel Day-Lewis’ mannered dressmaker and his muse who realizes she might want some different clothes. But regardless of the outcome of the story, the real-life one behind the scenes of the film has already been resolved: Day-Lewis publicly announced he was quitting acting following this film. “But why, Daniel?” you may wonder out loud, especially if you have a large cardboard cutout of the actor in his outfit from Last Of The Mohicans next to your bed. Well, now you have your answer: Making this film really bummed him out.
Not for any discernible reason, necessarily. In a new interview with W, Day-Lewis tries his best to articulate the cause of his early retirement from acting, and it seems to come down to some indefinable ennui he experienced as a result of making the movie: