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Why ‘Abigail’ Star Dan Stevens Left His Cushy Job on ‘Downton Abbey’ With No Acting Jobs Lined Up · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Actor Dan Stevens made a bold decision about a decade
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Speaker 2: ago to leave a very popular role as Matthew Crawley
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Speaker 2: on Downton Abbey and a steady paycheck too, in order
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Speaker 2: to move to Hollywood to pursue other acting opportunities. Even
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Speaker 2: though he had nothing lined up. It's all worked out
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Speaker 2: for him, and he's currently starring in both the horror
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Speaker 2: movie Abigail and the action monster hybrid Godzilla x Kong
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Speaker 2: a New Empire. These two roles seem like they couldn't
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Speaker 2: be more different from each other, but they're an even
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Speaker 2: bigger departure from his character on Downton Abbey. That's exactly
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Speaker 2: what Dan was craving when he left England. He tells Variety.
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Speaker 2: I think it's maybe more a British attitude to say
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Speaker 2: I've never seen you do this. I don't think you
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Speaker 2: can do this, whereas the attitude I was met with
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Speaker 2: over here early on was i've never seen you do this.
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Speaker 2: I'd love to see you try. It's part of the fun.
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Speaker 2: It's been an ambition of mine for a while to
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Speaker 2: be able to do something where you can see one
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Speaker 2: movie and see another movie and not recognize the actor.
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Speaker 2: Thought to Dan Stevens, his movie Abigail's out
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Speaker 1: Now, that's direct from Hollywood.