Daniel Day-Lewis will retreat to his Wicklow farm for the next five years if he wins an historic third Oscar.
The London Sunday Times reports that the Irish based acting legend will take an extended break if Lincoln triumphs at the Oscars.
Set to make history as the first man to win a third best actor Oscar, Lewis has confirmed his plans for a sabbatical.
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The 55-year-old star, nominated for the role of Abraham Lincoln, has told friends he does not expect to appear in another movie before he turns 60.
Instead he plans to focus on family life at his remote 50-acre estate in Co Wicklow, south of Dublin.
He has told friends he wants to: ‘learn rural skills’ such as stonemasonry.
Previously awarded an Oscar for My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood, Day-Lewis has reportedly told his agents that he is on ‘sabbatical.' He currently has no films officially in production.
A third Oscar win will see Day-Lewis make history and place him above several Hollywood legends.
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Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Fredric March and Sean Penn are the other eight actors to have won two Oscars.
The English born Day-Lewis who has Irish citizenship isn’t the only actor used to extended breaks according to the report.
The paper says George Clooney, Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt, who used to make two pictures a year, are now making a movie perhaps once every 18 months.
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The report adds that Pitt studied under Frank Gehry, the Los Angeles-based architect, before he built green homes in New Orleans. Martin Sheen studied literature, philosophy and oceanography at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Day-Lewis is the red hot favourite to win his third best actor award with Steven Spielberg tipped for best director for Lincoln.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.johnshiel | Feb 25, 2013, 10:19 AM EST
good for him! I look forward to reading why he wants to go country, and what type of work he has in mind with stone materials. the funny7 thing is he is one in a million -- he could do pretty much whatever he wants -- and he chooses something that most of us could do if we wanted to, tho on a more modest scale for time and money. Still...
canadianirish | Feb 24, 2013, 09:19 PM EST
Daniel Day Lewis is the finest actor on the planet. I am rooting for him tonight!
TisEyerish | Feb 24, 2013, 07:55 PM EST
I hope he wins the Oscar...he deserves to make history. Mr. Day-Lewis is certainly one of the most, if not THE most, talented actor to ever take the "stage." Would that I were able to retire to Wicklow...or anywhere in Ireland, for that matter!
Searlit | Feb 24, 2013, 06:26 PM EST
Yes, he's profoundly good. Glendalough is one of the most beautiful places in Ireland. Who can blame him for wanting to spend time with his family?
seanomelb | Feb 24, 2013, 05:51 PM EST
Nominated for best actor in the tragic story of the guildford four 'In the name of the father" one of his greatest performances.
Smyrnian | Feb 24, 2013, 05:08 PM EST
He is one if the greatest actors that ever lived.
CitizenWhy | Feb 24, 2013, 02:27 PM EST
Perhaps even a fertile talent needs to lie fallow. at least for a time. Perhaps he just wants to play older roles. Or perhaps he wishes to meditate on the life of St. Kevin of the Wicklow Hills, that paragon of celibate chastity, as I was taught, so devoted to this highest of the virtues that he defended it against a pushy and persistent temptress by stoning her to death and then committing suicide. Surely it is not up to Lewis to explain why he has chosen this course, but for us to speculate as to why. And where are the saints of yesteryear? And what has happened to the Irish that they no longer produce tales of sainst with a certain wry devotion?
PhlutiePhan | Feb 24, 2013, 12:31 PM EST
No doubt that he was excellent in "The Last of the Mohicans".
TheaterFan | Feb 24, 2013, 11:58 AM EST
Irishfree - please turn on Spellcheck.
irishfree1916 | Feb 24, 2013, 11:11 AM EST
I hope he wins, but my favorite Daniel Day-Lewis film was "The Last of the MOhicicans" 1992. Day Lewis played Hawkeye/Nathaniel Poe and we were treated to Russell Means play Chingachgook the LotM! Jerry O'Keefe Anaheim
torbreezy | Feb 24, 2013, 11:06 AM EST
Obviously, Daniel couldn't resist the pull to return "Among the Wicklow Hills" . . . .