Dan Stevens: I'm based in US for now (INDEPENDENT)

16 JUNE 2013

Dan Stevens has revealed he is basing himself in America for the moment because it "makes sense" for his career.

The Downton Abbey star moved with his wife and two small children to Brooklyn while he starred with Jessica Chastain in The Heiress on Broadway recently.

Since his Downton Abbey character Matthew Crawley was killed off, he has filmed Hollywood action movie A Walk Among The Tombstones with Liam Neeson and Julian Asange biopic The Fifth Estate.

Dan said of moving to America: "I don't know about for good but we're living there at the moment. And for work it makes sense for me to be there at the minute.

"But it's good to be back. I'm coming back in the summer to shoot Swallows And Amazons, we're doing a feature film adaptation of that, but in between I'm off back to the States to do an American independent film. So I hope I can keep hopping back and forth across the pond. I enjoy both."

The 30-year-old actor produced and starred in his latest film Summer In February, a period love story set amid the Lamorna Group of artists in Cornwall. It is based on a book written by his former teacher Jonathan Smith.

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Dan Stevens: American Downton Abbey fans are intense (ITV)

Dan Stevens thinks his American fans are very intense.

The former 'Downton Abbey' star left his role as handsome heir Matthew Crawley on the hit ITV drama to explore a future in film in the US, but hadn't realised quite how full-on people are across the Atlantic.

He told InStyle magazine: ''The fans are on a whole different level in the US. Although it's difficult to tell whether it's just American enthusiasm - when American like something they really like it. People can get disappointed if I don't turn up wearing tails.

''There's all sorts of merchandise. I've yet to see the 'Downton' lunch box - I didn't even know people still used lunch boxes.''

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Dan Stevens is almost unrecognisable in his new role in a gritty Hollywood blockbuster By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER

He made his name playing floppy-haired Matthew Crawley in ITV’s Downton Abbey, but Dan Stevens is almost unrecognisable in his new role – as a tough guy.

The 30-year-old star who has set up home in New York has landed a role in a gritty Hollywood blockbuster.

Dan’s Downton character was killed off in a dramatic Christmas Day car crash after visiting his wife Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery, who had just given birth. Now he will be seen in A Walk Among The Tombstones alongside Liam Neeson and Ruth Wilson.

‘I guess I’ve been eating better since I moved here,’ he said ‘And I stopped drinking. At the same time I started filming here, for which I needed to slim down a little.’

The new role comes less than a year after Dan made his Broadway stage debut opposite Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain in  The Heiress.

Dan relishes his new life in  New York with his wife, South African-born singer Susie Hariet  and their children Aubrey, one, and Willow, three.

He said: ‘I was walking round  with my dad the other day. They live in a little village in Sussex and this couldn’t be further from it.  

'He was fascinated by this way of living and I am too.’

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Liam Neeson in negotiations for crime thriller "The All Nighter" Liza Foreman Reuters 5:31 p.m. CST, November 16, 2012 (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Liam Neeson is in negotiations to star in the crime thriller "The All Nighter (AKA Run All Night)" a person familiar with the situation has told TheWrap.

The story follows an aging hit man who, in order to protect his wife and son, must take on his former boss in a single night. He then winds up on the run from the mob and the authorities with his estranged son.

The film is being produced by Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee, along with Brooklyn Weaver for Warner Bros. which declined to comment. The studio acquired Brad Ingelsby's spec script "The All Nighter" in January for a reported six figure sum.

Neeson's upcoming films include "Non-Stop" and "A Walk Among The Tombstones." He will also be featured in a voice role in the upcoming film "Lego: The Piece of Resistance."


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