Daniel Day-Lewis, 66, will STAY retired from movies as streaming giants have '7,000 choices' but 'none of them are good' claims My Left Foot director

Daniel Day-Lewis, 66, currently has no plans to come out of retirement after leaving the movie business seven years ago.

The legendary thespian delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film Phantom Thread and then withdrew from acting completely.

Last month, however, he set off a swirl of comeback rumors when he was spotted meeting up with Jim Sheridan and Steven Spielberg, both of whom have directed Daniel in Oscar-winning performances.

But Jim, who made three movies with Daniel including in My Left Foot, has now quashed hopes Daniel will return to Hollywood.

'He says he’s done, I keep talking to him. I’d love to do something with him again,' the Irish filmmaker remarked to Screen Daily.

Daniel Day-Lewis, 66, currently has no plans to come out of retirement after leaving the movie business seven years ago; pictured in January at the National Board Of Review Awards Gala

The legendary thespian delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film Phantom Thread (pictured) and then withdrew from acting completely

'He’s like everybody else, he opens up the streamers and there’s seven thousand choices, none of them are good,' he explained.

'Film has been moved out of the public domain into a private domain – you have a remote, you can stop it. It’s not the same experience.' 

Nevertheless, the Dublin-born director said: 'It’d be great to see Daniel coming back and doing something ‘cos he’s so good.'

Daniel won his first-ever Academy Award for My Left Foot, a 1989 dramedy in which he played a man suffering from cerebral palsy. 

In 1993 he and Jim collaborated again on In The Name Of The Father, a crime drama about the Troubles that netted Daniel another Oscar nomination. 

They returned to the theme of the IRA with the 1997 movie The Boxer, starring Daniel alongside Emily Watson and Brian Cox. 

Daniel won a total of three Oscars, including one for his searing 2007 western There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

His final Oscar triumph came for Steven Spielberg's 2012 movie Lincoln, in which Daniel played the title role of America's 16th president. 

Daniel won his first-ever Academy Award for My Left Foot, a 1989 dramedy in which he played a man suffering from cerebral palsy

In 1993 he and Jim collaborated again on In The Name Of The Father, a crime drama about the Troubles that netted Daniel another Oscar nomination

Daniel is pictured on the set of his 1997 film The Boxer with its director Jim Sheridan, who also helmed My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father

Paul and Daniel reunited for what would turn out to be the latter's final movie - Phantom Thread, loosely inspired by the life of Cristobal Balenciaga.

A few months before the movie was going to be released, Daniel dramatically announced through a spokesperson that he was retiring.

'This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject,' the statement concluded. 

In a subsequent interview with W, he explained that he had wanted to retire multiple times before and finally issued the announcement to force his own hand.

'I knew it was uncharacteristic to put out a statement. But I did want to draw a line. I didn’t want to get sucked back into another project,' he said.

'All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion. It was something I had to do.'