Get the latest gossip
Dan Stevens Is Our Finest Weird (Usually) British Man
He’s sometimes Australian, German, or American. But he’s almost always being weird.
We don’t have time to get into the extensive lore and myriad strangeness of Noah Hawley’s Marvel television series about Charles Xavier’s reality-shifting son (if you want to know more there is a very dedicated fanbase out there even five years after the show finished who would love to talk at you) but arguably Legion is where Stevens cemented his claim to being King of the Weird British Men - ignore the fact he’s playing an American – as a diagnosed schizophrenic who discovers he’s actually the most powerful mutant in the world. The chatter around the American dub for Hayao Miyazaki’s soaring, sublime fantasy epic mainly revolved around the casting of two other great Weird Men, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, who voice the titular Heron and “Noble Pelican.” But don’t sleep on Stevens, who plays a literal man-eating parakeet, proving there are no small parts as he brings laudable gravitas to the hungry bird. Bad news for Gretchen (a luminous, badass Hunter Schaffer), whose family enters into business with the affable alpine flautist Herr König, who creeps around the resort in sensible knitwear making cryptic statements and smiling with the unblinking gaze of a man who would cheerfully murder you and whistle a jaunty tune while burying the body.
Or read this on VULTURE
