Dan Stevens has gone on to have a pretty successful career after Downton Abbey.
He’s also broken into American TV as the star of the FX series Legion, so it’s not as if leaving Downton Abbey totally halted his career.
Perhaps it’s that feeling that has led Dan Stevens to continue apologizing for the way things went down, even if he wasn’t the person who penned the scene that killed off his character.
He’s appeared in movies like The Fifth Estate, Night at the Museum 3 and the upcoming Beauty and the Beast film, where he plays the titular Beast.