Dan Stevens, who plays cousin Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey, is jumping into another period — and passionate — love triangle.
The actor spent the second season of the hit ITV drama torn between the respective charms of his fiancee, Lavinia Swire (Zoe Boyle), and his cousin, Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery).
This time round, though, he will be competing with another man for the favours of one woman.
Summer In February is a fictionalised version of a real-life love story, that played out at an Edwardian artists’ colony between the years 1911 and 1914.
The main players are painters Sir Alfred Munnings and Florence Carter-Wood, and Gilbert Evans, the man who ran the enclave in the Lamorna Valley in West Cornwall. Dan will play Evans.
He told me the film will shoot on locations in Cornwall in the New Year.
‘Two men love the same beautiful woman,’ said Dan, who is the only one of the three leads to be cast so far.
He explained that Summer In February will be based on Jonathan Smith’s 1995 novel of the same name, which was inspired by the long forgotten, complex love story.
Sir Alfred, a charismatic hell-raiser left blind in one eye following an accident, is at the centre of the colony of artists, which is run by Evans, who is unfailingly sensitive and gentlemanly.
Sparks fly when Florence — who is described as looking like Botticelli’s Venus — arrives at the rural retreat. Both men are besotted with her.
Sir Alfred captured Florence in a painting called The Morning Ride, which shows her riding side-saddle on his horse, Merrilegs.
Dan is also working on the two-hour ITV Christmas Day Downton special, which may well resolve whether Matthew Crawley or Iain Glen’s pushy Press baron Sir Richard Carlisle ends up with the bewitching Lady Mary.
Pippa Cross, who is producing Summer In February with partner Janette Day, told me Chris Menaul, who made the first Prime Suspect TV film, will direct the movie using Jonathan Smith’s screen adaptation
Daily Mail
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