CITY AM
Tuesday 20th September 2011, 1:05am
DAN STEVENS may have commanded a handsome fee to play Matthew Crawley in the second series of Downton Abbey, but he is not above lending his skills to smaller acting projects for free.
Earlier this month, Stevens joined actresses Romola Garai and Imogen Stubbs to shoot a short film as a favour to its producer Lucan Toh, the chief executive of a Dubai-based corporate services group who is taking his first steps to become “the next Richard Curtis”.
The film, called Babysitting, is the second short film produced by Toh with his production partner Oliver Roskill of Wentworth Entertainment and his director Sam Hoare. Starring Garai as Maggie, it tells the story of a girl “struggling through life”, whose troubles take a turn for the worse when she babysits for her boss’s wife and the family dog dies on her watch.
Toh now plans to take the film to the Sundance, Venice, Cannes and Berlin film festivals to persuade investors to back his film venture Holland Park Pictures to the tune of the $1m needed to get his first feature film off the ground in 2012. “It remains to be seen what the critics will make of it but we’ll see,” Toh told The Capitalist. “We want to progress slowly but surely in this industry.”
Earlier this month, Stevens joined actresses Romola Garai and Imogen Stubbs to shoot a short film as a favour to its producer Lucan Toh, the chief executive of a Dubai-based corporate services group who is taking his first steps to become “the next Richard Curtis”.
The film, called Babysitting, is the second short film produced by Toh with his production partner Oliver Roskill of Wentworth Entertainment and his director Sam Hoare. Starring Garai as Maggie, it tells the story of a girl “struggling through life”, whose troubles take a turn for the worse when she babysits for her boss’s wife and the family dog dies on her watch.
Toh now plans to take the film to the Sundance, Venice, Cannes and Berlin film festivals to persuade investors to back his film venture Holland Park Pictures to the tune of the $1m needed to get his first feature film off the ground in 2012. “It remains to be seen what the critics will make of it but we’ll see,” Toh told The Capitalist. “We want to progress slowly but surely in this industry.”
2 comments:
New follower from book blogs. Love your blog and the fact you have a whole collection of my favourite actors.
I think Dan Stevens is fantastic! I heard of him for the first time in Downton Abbey. I would love to see him in some bigger films, but I guess he needs to find the right role first.
It's pretty safe to say that big things are coming for Dan. If for no other reason than to look at his eyes!
Post a Comment