{"id":1394,"date":"2025-09-29T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:33:43","slug":"360-the-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/09\/29\/360-the-boxer\/","title":{"rendered":"360 &#8211; The Boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/theboxer-thob.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve got Daniel Day-Lewis back in theaters this week with&nbsp;<em>Anemone<\/em>, so we&#8217;re looking back at one of his few failed Oscar bids. In 1997, Day-Lewis paired up with director Jim Sheridan for the third time in a decade for&nbsp;<em>The Boxer<\/em>, the tale of an IRA member and boxer released from prison in the waning days of the The Troubles. With Emily Watson as his former lover and Brian Cox as her high-ranking IRA father, the film arrived into theaters with a modest response as the world was being swept away with&nbsp;<em>Titanic<\/em>&nbsp;fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, we talk about the Day-Lewis\/Sheridan partnership and Day-Lewis&#8217; breakout roles in the 80s before his&nbsp;<em>My Left Foot<\/em>&nbsp;Oscar. We also discuss Watson&#8217;s powerful screen presence, Cox with a full head of not-white hair, and Sheridan&#8217;s diminishing directorial returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include the 1997 Golden Globes, acting nominations we forget happened, and&nbsp;<em>Bella Mafia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9688\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1394-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_360_The_Boxer.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_360_The_Boxer.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_360_The_Boxer.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_360_The_Boxer.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1394-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_360_The_Boxer.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_360_The_Boxer.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got Daniel Day-Lewis back in theaters this week with&nbsp;Anemone, so we&#8217;re looking back at one of his few failed Oscar bids. In 1997, Day-Lewis paired up with director Jim Sheridan for the third time in a decade for&nbsp;The Boxer, the tale of an IRA member and boxer released from prison in the waning days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/09\/29\/360-the-boxer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;360 &#8211; The Boxer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,34,549,542,1993,314,144,178,1994,3,6,884],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-best-actor","tag-best-director","tag-brian-cox","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-emily-watson","tag-golden-globes","tag-jim-sheridan","tag-ken-stott","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-sports-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}