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Post your questions for Dan Stevens
As unlikely transformations go, it’s up there with Helen Mirren kicking ass in Red or Selena Gomez as a bikini-clad robber in Spring Breakers. Dan Stevens, best known for his turn as charming and gentle Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey, is now ripped, bearded, sexy and maybe a little bit evil in gritty new thriller The Guest. He plays a war veteran visiting the family of a fallen comrade – but it quickly becomes unclear whether he’s a benevolent friend or an unpredictable thug. Downton’s world of sugar tongs and forelock-tugging has never been so far away.
Stevens started out playing Macbeth opposite Rebecca Hall at university, and that prepared him for roles in class-conscious British fare like The Line of Beauty, Sense and Sensibility, and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia – before his grisly exit from Downton allowed him to tear up any potential typecasting.
He continues to defy expectation with the forthcoming A Walk Among the Tombstones, in which he plays a drug baron hiring Liam Neeson’s PI to find his kidnapped wife, and The Cobbler, a slice of magical realism starring Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman – though he does revert to type by playing Sir Lancelot in the next Night at the Museum movie.
So there’s a huge wealth of stuff to ask him – post your question in the comments below, and he’ll endeavour to answer as many as possible.
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