His drama training at the Bristol Old Vic school had encouraged in him the sense that theatre work was the goal. Then there's films: bit dodgy. Television: like, really? OK, you gotta pay the gas bill. That was the thinking. There was no concession [in the training] to movies at all. But secretly, most of us [students] longed to make movies, because we'd been raised on movies, and movies seemed just so wonderful to us and magical. Not that the theatre isn't too, but the theatre in itself is an elite cultural form.
Ronan Day-Lewis's debut film, Anemone, is a dark, emotional journey into generational trauma. It also just happens to star his father, Daniel Day-Lewis, in the venerated actor's first film in eight years. How did Day-Lewis the younger go from scampering around sets to running a production of his own? Here are some key moviegoing moments from the director's early days. First movie you saw in theaters?
