Well, of course he misses Downton! We miss him too… don’t we?
‘I miss Downton Abbey’ – Dan Stevens on his film career and working with Robin Williams
DAN STEVENS stars as a very silly Sir Lancelot in the new Night at the Museum film and reveals his joy at working with Robin Williams, plus which of his Hollywood co-stars was a huge Downton Abbey fan.
We’re used to seeing Stevens with the stiffest of upper lips in Downton Abbey but it turns out that his background is mainly in comedy.
“I did almost entirely comedy when I was at Cambridge,” he says.
“I was in Footlights and they didn’t do a huge amount of straight drama. I did two plays and weirdly those were the performances that got me my agent and first job out of university.
“But all the rest of the time I was doing stand-up comedy and comic plays.”
So the 32-year-old relished the chance to work alongside comedy greats like Steve Coogan, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
Most of all he treasures the memory of being on set with his hero Robin Williams, who died in August last year.
“Getting to work with Robin Williams was probably the highlight of my career,” he says.
“He was a huge inspiration to me growing up.
“He was an actor who was able to make people laugh as much as cry in a huge range of movies. The diversity of his career was awe inspiring.”
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