Director Steve McQueen revealed that he’s “fully recovered and functional” after privately battling prostate cancer. The 55-year-old British filmmaker shared details about his health battle publicly for the first time in an interview with Deadline published on Thursday.

Steve McQueen Had Prostrate Cancer Procedure On Eve Of ‘Blitz’ Shoot; He Is Now “Fully Recovered, Fully Functional”

McQueen, whose father died of prostate cancer in 2006, discovered that he developed a small tumor during one of his routine checkups in 2022, while his new war drama Blitz — about a mother's search for her young son in World War II London — was in pre-production.

The director illuminates his new World War II epic, focused on a boy’s fight to get back home amid the rubble of war-torn London.

Acclaimed director Steve McQueen shared both his prostate cancer diagnosis and fully clean bill of health on the same day. In a new interview with Deadline, the filmmaker revealed that he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor two years ago,

Seeing war through a child’s eyes is sobering. It helps us reconnect to a situation that’s ongoing and unfortunately very familiar."