The Heiress: Time Out New York interview

This lovely image by Nick Briggs accompanies an interview with Dan on the Time Out New York website, where he discusses The Heiress and Downton Abbey.

In The Heiress, Stevens gets to take on a dishonorable figure—one quite unlike the Downton Abbey war hero and all-around golden boy who got engaged to Lady Mary last season. “Everybody who knows the play says, ‘Oh, you’re playing Morris. He’s a villain, a gold digger,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, that is one way of looking at it,’ ” says Stevens with a laugh. “But it’s not as interesting to play if he arrives twiddling his metaphorical mustache. The moral ambiguity between those three lead characters is more complex than that. I’m enjoying finding a real humanity for them, which is not always easy, because they each behave in quite strange ways.”