Words by Katarina Zeni
Illustration by Dane Thibeault
Interview by Michael Zarathus-Cook
From a painter and filmmaker to the son of well-known creatives, if there’s one thing that first-time director Ronan Day-Lewis has plenty of, it’s titles. And if there’s one thing that they all reveal, it’s that he can make an exceptionally detailed – and perhaps overly enigmatic – piece of cinema.
Coming from a long line of creatives — his grandfather is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible); his mother is the director Rebecca Miller (Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits), and his father is the Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood, Lincoln, and Phantom Thread) — Ronan Day-Lewis has always been surrounded by and immersed in art and innovative expression. Yet, rather than leveraging his family’s influence to his advantage — as the charge of nepotism so often suggests — Ronan first made his mark as a painter, and has since become an emerging filmmaker with a distinctly personal voice.
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