Jim Sheridan Dispels Daniel Day-Lewis Acting Rumors; Reveals Joseph Kennedy Talks With Steven Spielberg & Gives Updates On ‘Standing Bear’ & ‘Re-Creation’
deadline.comJim Sheridan has dispelled rumors around a possible return to acting by Daniel Day-Lewis, who gave an Oscar-winning performance in the Irish director’s drama My Left Foot and also starred in his subsequent films In The Name Of The Father and The Boxer.
Rumors have been rife that Day-Lewis, who retired from acting in 2017, might be contemplating a return to the big screen after he was photographed by paparazzi coming out of a New York restaurant with Sheridan and Steven Spielberg in early January.
Sheridan said the trio had been holding a meeting about a possible reboot of his long-gestating project about the Kennedy family, focused on its social climber-patriarch Joseph Kennedy. “We were talking about a project.
Daniel was only going to be involved, if he did get involved, as an executive producer, not as an actor,” said Sheridan. “It was on the life of Joe Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy family… we haven’t advanced it, we were just talking,” he added.
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