Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese wants to make “one more” film with Daniel Day-Lewis, who quit acting in 2017 and has since largely avoided public life.
Accepting an award from Day-Lewis at the National Board of Review Awards (via Next Best Picture), Scorsese teased that maybe they could work together on another movie.
“We did two films together and it’s one of the greatest experiences of my life, I must say,” said Scorsese, before turning around to look at Day-Lewis. “Maybe there’s time for one more. Maybe!” Cue excited cheers from the crowd.
You can see the moment in the video below, courtesy of Matt Neglia, Editor-In-Chief of Next Best Picture:
Don’t tease us like this Marty!! 👀 https://t.co/kedMQbTNNr pic.twitter.com/dWwoVWVZLn
— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) January 12, 2024
Scorsese famously directed Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York, the hit historical crime drama that starred Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, John C. Reilly, and more.
Set in 1863, the film charts the violence that erupted following a long-running Catholic-Protestant feud and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Yes, that included a nod for Day-Lewis in Best Actor.
Day-Lewis also starred in Scorsese’s earlier historical romantic drama The Age of Innocence, which saw him play Newland Archer, an uptight New York attorney who falls in love with his bride-to-be’s upstart young cousin.
But could the pair reunite for one last movie? Day-Lewis bowed out of public life back in 2017, retiring from acting after starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. Day-Lewis’ controversial method acting likely took a hefty toll on the actor, but if anyone can coax him out of retirement, surely it’s Scorsese. Whether or not Day-Lewis will be convinced remains to be seen.
IGN’s Gangs of New York review gave it 8/10 and said: “Daniel Day-Lewis’s supercharged portrayal of Nativist leader Bill ‘the Butcher’ Cutting makes everyone else look bland by comparison. Just like Leone’s choice of ‘good guy’ Henry Fonda as the chilling, blue-eyed baddie Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West, Day-Lewis is the magic element that makes the movie work. And it’s in the relationship between Cutting and Vallon that Scorsese manages to give his two lead characters the necessary depth to actually make us care about them.”
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Image credit: Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for National Board of Review
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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