And then that, over the process of about 18 months, has become the Beast. And they would take that data, morph it into the Beast's face and then onto the body that I puppeteered on the set. And then the facial capture was done separately, so every ten days I would go into a booth, I would have to shave, spray my face with UV paint, and then 27 cameras would, in a UV booth, pick up the facial stuff from the scenes that we'd shot. Is that what I look like normally? When I haven't shaved my face? It's a combination of two different kinds of CGI, so it was motion capture and puppeteering of a muscle suit on stilts for the body. YouTube Icon YouTube Icon Is that CGI? Is that makeup and CGI? Is that just makeup? Is that your face? Amazing experience to get to play the Beast. I was making it for friends of mine but also for my kids. And Beauty and the Beast is sort of for both. There's something great about making something for my kids and for their friends, as well as making movies like The Guest for my friends. But also to do something where my kids could come on set and have an amazing time, see the movie repeatedly, and have an amazing time too. And there was a certain kind of thrill I got from doing Night at the Museum, where to get to do something big and silly for my own benefit, to reengage with comedy again, was a huge pleasure. Like Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, you find them in both. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful-and then go and do drama and comedy as well. I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. Did having kids have anything to do with taking on this role? So people should be really thoroughly confused. I think episode six comes out the week the movie comes out. When they're watching Legion, they're like, 's the Beast, and vice versa. I hope it's going to surprise and confuse a few people. YouTube Icon YouTube Icon And then you have 'Beauty and the Beast' coming out. There was nothing else really to compare it to. Yeah, it's different from most things all of us have done. And it's so different from what you've done in the past. It's a nice combination of things that spurred me on. And then he started shaping up the team of people that were going to be doing it and I thought the kinds of names he was thinking about and talking about were just so cool. And I know he picks excellent music for his shows, so you know it's going to have a good soundtrack. And hopefully fun and cool at the same time. I met him the year before last, briefly, and when Legion came along it didn't take me long to think, Okay, well, Noah plus the insanely epic scope of this character-that's surely a recipe for something kind of fun and, if nothing else, different. I think he's a great novelist and thinks novel-length thoughts, and I thought, That's somebody I'd really like to work with. I thought Fargo was amazing and I've read a few of his books now. Noah Hawley was probably the first reason. There were lots of reasons making me want to do it, really. His face―which you might remember from Downton Abbey, though it looks a little different these days―is about to be everywhere.Īt the UK premiere of ’beauty and the beast' Getty Images Why did you decide to do 'Legion'? He has five other projects in the works, according to IMDb. His next film, The Ticket, opens in April. You can also spot him in the trailer for Anne Hathaway's upcoming movie, Colossal. Right now, Stevens has four episodes of FX's new Marvel series Legion in the bag and is smack-dab in the middle of a press tour for one of the mostly highly anticipated films of the year, Beauty and the Beast. Damn you, Wikipedia.) But all that's about to change. When I last checked," he replied, looking down at the photo of his family on the background of his phone. ("So you have two kids, right?" I asked him nonchalantly during our interview, as if I hadn't Googled it a few hours before. The internet doesn't know every little thing about him. He hasn't mastered the art of nailing a red carpet photo call. He can still sit in a coffee shop unrecognized. At this very moment he's right on the edge, toeing the line that borders the kind of celebrity you don't come back from. Dan Stevens is on the cusp of being Famous.
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