Dan Stevens Tells Jean Smart How He Became the Reluctant Leading Man

Dan Stevens Tells Jean Smart How He Became the Reluctant Leading Man

Dan Stevens, photographed by Sela Shiloni. Following his breakout as a brooding aristocrat in Downton Abbey, Dan Stevens could have gone the leading man route. Instead, he has become one of the most quietly shape-shifting actors we have. Whether he’s a manic mutant in Legion, or a Tucker Carlson-esque media manipulator in the Netflix political thriller Zero Day, Stevens approaches each role with a careful abandon and refreshing lack of vanity ra…