With his turn as an apparently dark and complex Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas, Dan Stevens adds to his ever-growing repertoire of diverse characters who are absolutely nothing like the relatively bland Matthew Crawley.
But the guy was, at turns, quite playful and childish, and, at turns, quite dark and not a very pleasant man.”
The very busy actor also has the Thurgood Marshall biopic Marshall, the romantic-comedy Permission and the sci-fi flick Redivider coming up in 2017.
Particularly in England, Dickens is placed on a pedestal.