Daniel Day-Lewis looks very different after being spotted for the first ...
Reclusive actor Daniel Day-Lewis was photographed in public for the first time in four years earlier this week and fans have been left bemused by what has happened to him.
He was talking into a flip phone whilst wearing a blue tracksuit, and he had much longer hair beneath a baseball cap than people remember him having.
The 66-year-old was spotted on Friday too as he went out for a walk in the West Village area of New York with his wife, Rebecca Miller.
Day-Lewis is known for his method acting which means he went to very extreme lengths to portray his characters, barely breaking character even in his personal life.
Day-Lewis' retirementHe announced his retirement from acting in 2017 and has since been seen incredibly rarely by the public.
"I haven't figured it out," he told W magazine five months later. "I need to believe in the value of what I'm doing. The work can seem vital. Irresistible, even. And if an audience believes it, that should be good enough for me. But, lately, it isn't."
Day-Lewis explained, "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," he continued. "It was something I had to do."
It was far from a surprise when Day-Lewis did quit acting in 2017 given he had taken a long break after finishing filming 'Lincoln' in 2012. Many wondered if that was the end but he did briefly come back.
Back in 1997, he took a step back from Hollywood to pursue shoe cobbling in Florence, Italy, until 2000.
Day-Lewis is best known for many award-winning roles, including "There Will Be Blood" and "The Boxer."