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Michael Corleone said it best in The Godfather Part III, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” Actors will always be actors, and dangling a meaty role in front of them is like dangling a piece of string in front of a cat.

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There are tons of actors who have announced their retirement, and so many of them have come out of retirement. Sometimes they’ll come out of retirement years later after they’ve been begged by a certain director, and other times, actors will snap up another role almost days after announcing they're done for good.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Before starring in Phantom Threadand playing one of the most memorable characters in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, Daniel Day-Lewis worked with Scorsese on the epic Gangs of New York. Day-Lewis played the now iconic Bill The Butcher, the knife-wielding gang leader with the biggest mutton chops.

But the actor had retired at that point to become a cobbler in Italy, and Scorsese reportedly even traveled to the country, just to persuade him to take the role.

Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci hadn’t acted in a live-action movie in almost 10 years, and there was only one filmmaker that could ever convince the actor to come out of retirement, though it wasn’t without some struggle.

Pesci reportedly turned down the role more than 50 times, but thanks to Martin Scorsese’s persistence, he reunited with De Niro on screen for The Irishman and it ended up being one of the best gangster movies of the past 15 years.

Rick Moranis

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids is one of those forgotten classics and one of the best Rick Moranis movies, but the property will no longer be lying dormant, as the remake, simply titled Shrunk, is currently in production.

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According to Focus Features, which is releasing Anemone, Daniel Day-Lewis’ return to movie acting “explores the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds.” In a statement about Anemone, Focus Features Chairman Peter Kujawski said of the movie and Day-Lewis’ part in it, “We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator. They have written a truly exceptional script, and we look forward to bringing their shared vision to audiences alongside the team at Plan B.”

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. He has three Oscars, and received three nominations for other roles. He also won three Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, and they even knighted him in 2014. So that’s Sir Daniel Day-Lewis to you. Daniel Day-Lewis’ return to the screen for Anemone is actually not the first time he’s come out of retirement. In 1997, he retired from acting to become an apprentice shoemaker in Italy. That retirement was relatively brief, and he returned to acting in 2000. This most recent retirement was slightly longer, about as long as Hugh Jackman’s retirement from playing Wolverine. Hopefully, Daniel Day-Lewis is back to stay this time, and Anemone won’t be his next last movie. Anemone currently does not have a release date.

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English actor (born 1957)

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2014, Day-Lewis received a knighthood for services to drama.

Born and raised in London, Day-Lewis excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. Protective of his private life, he rarely grants interviews and makes very few public appearances.

Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo Montague in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Playing the title role in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London in 1989, he left the stage midway through a performance after breaking down during a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears before him—this was his last appearance on the stage. After supporting film roles in Gandhi (1982) and The Bounty (1984), he earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), A Room with a View (1985), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

He earned three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles as Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), an oil tycoon in There Will Be Blood (2007), and Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). He was Oscar-nominated for In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), and Phantom Thread (2017). Other notable films include The Last of the