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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 21 June 2017
New Chris Cornell music video, Daniel Day-Lewis says he’s

filmed before death, released
retiring from acting

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel
Day-Lewis, one of the most
widely respected actors of
his generation and a three-
time Oscar-winner, says
he’s retiring from acting.
The 60-year-old actor an-
nounced Tuesday that he
has shot his last film and
performed in his last play.
That makes Paul Thomas
Anderson’s already filmed
“Phantom Thread,” due
out in December, his final
In this July 29, 2015, file photo, Chris Cornell plays guitar during film. In this Jan. 27, 2013, file photo, Daniel Day-Lewis arrives at the
a portrait session at The Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, Calif. “Daniel Day-Lewis will no 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Audito-
Associated Press rium in Los Angeles.
longer be working as an
actor,” his representative Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — wanted the video to be re- Leslee Dart said in a state- been an exceptionally de- long period of time. As I feel
Chris Cornell’s final music leased on World Refugee ment. “He is immensely liberate performer who of- I’m growing into a sense of
video, filmed before the Day.Cornell and his family grateful to all of his col- ten spends years preparing that life, if I’m lucky, I begin
singer died in May, was re- toured refugee camps in laborators and audiences for a role, crafting his char- to hear a voice.”
leased Tuesday. Greece in April, and there over the many years. This is acters with an uncommon, He has stepped away
The video for “The Promise” they decided that The Chris a private decision and nei- methodical completeness. from film before. In the late
was released to coincide and Vicky Cornell Founda- ther he nor his representa- “I don’t dismember a char- 1990s, he famously ap-
with World Refugee Day. tion would focus its efforts tives will make any further acter into its component prenticed as a shoemaker
The clip was filmed in Brook- on child refugees. comment on this subject.” parts and then kind of bolt in Florence, Italy — a pe-
lyn, New York. Cornell was the lead singer The announcement sent it all together, and off you riod he called “semi-retire-
Eric Esrailian, who pro- of Soundgarden and Au- shockwaves through Hol- go,” Day-Lewis told the AP ment.” ‘’Phantom Thread,”
duced the video, said Cor- dioslave. Authorities say he lywood, where Day-Lewis in 2012, discussing Steven which Focus Features will
nell filmed the video shortly killed himself following a is revered as possibly the Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” ‘’I release Dec. 25, is his first
before he died. Esrailian concert in Detroit. finest actor of his time. But tend to try and allow things film in five years, following
added that the rock singer He was 52.q Day-Lewis has also long to happen slowly, over a “Lincoln.”q
Stars of ‘Jumanji’ sequel pay tribute to Robin Williams

By HERNAN MUNOZ RAT- years. The new film, “Ju-
TO manji: Welcome to the
Associated Press Jungle,” shows where
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Parrish was all that time.
— Jack Black and Nick Jonas was a late addi-
Jonas — two of the stars tion to the cast and his
of the upcoming “Ju- character is yet to be
manji” sequel — have revealed. He said it was
paid tribute to the ac- important to the cast to
tor who led the original “pay justice” to Williams.
film — the late Robin Wil- “I think it’s about trying
liams. to tell the story in a new
Describing Williams as and exciting way. And
a “sweet, sweet man,” hopefully he would have
Black said the late actor liked it,” he said.
would “love” the movie. In the sequel, the board
“He had a great sense game from the original
of adventure. ... It would movie has been reimag-
have been amazing to ined as a vintage video
work with him,” he said game, into which four
Sunday at a press event teenagers are drawn.
for the film in Barcelona, The teens become their
Spain. video game avatars Actors Jack Black, left, and Nick Jonas pose to the media during a photocall to promote the film
Williams, who died in — played by Dwayne “Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle” in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 18, 2017.
2014, starred in the origi- Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kar- Associated Press
nal 1995 movie as Alan en Gillan and Black. we have better special were able to go into the “Jumanji: Welcome to
Parrish, who was trapped “Twenty years have effects and a bigger jungles of Jumanji,” said the Jungle” will be re-
in a board game for 26 passed and obviously budget. That’s why we Black. leased in December.q