Daniel Day-Lewis is back like he never left.
As the Oscar-winning "Lincoln" star, 68, returns with his first movie role in eight years, he told Rolling Stone he did not mean to officially retire from acting — despite announcing his retirement in 2017.
"I never intended to retire, really," he said in the Sept. 10 interview. "I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work."
The actor continued: "Apparently, I've been accused of retiring twice now. I never meant to retire from anything! I just wanted to work on something else for a while." Day-Lewis also quipped that looking back, he "would have done well to just keep my mouth shut, for sure."
Day-Lewis, who is widely considered one of the greatest screen actors of all time, officially confirmed his retirement from acting in 2017 ahead of the release of the Paul Thomas Anderson film "Phantom Thread."
