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As a schoolboy I would star in plays at girls’ schools in Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks to ‘meet girls’ “If you were half decent at acting you would get farmed out to the local girls’ schools and be in their plays – which was awesome.” 

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... Stacy has an allergic reaction to the cream that gives her a terrible rash. But after using it, she begins seeing the product’s spokesman (Dan Stevens) speak to her directly through her TV, promising that it’ll transform her life if she just keeps using more.

“It’s unclear whether it’s actually happening or whether it’s a figment of her imagination, but she obviously becomes overly obsessed with this product and with everything that it promises,” Stevens tells Tudum.

Director Ana Lily Amirpour previously worked with Stevens when he starred in Legion. She came up with the look for the Alo Glo Man, which required the actor to dye his hair platinum blond — a process that took six hours at a hair salon.

“Dan has a really big presence, and I worshiped him on Legion,” Amirpour tells Tudum. “I feel like he can really go anywhere and do anything. He can be the good guy, he can be the villain, he can be a dreamboat, he can be the monster. With the Alo Glo Man, he’s somewhere between a cult leader and an evangelist.”

Stevens dresses in a dazzling white suit and sits in a bright set, which provides a sharp visual contrast to Stacy’s cozy living room, giving her a glimpse of a very different life.

“Dan is the perfect guy to play this because he’s an incredible actor and he’s very, very beautiful and enticing,” Micucci says. “You see those blue eyes and you’re like, ‘What do you want me to buy?’ ” ...

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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities review – the horror series that’s perfect pre-Halloween viewing | Television & radio | The Guardian

5 star review!!

The Outside, where Stacey (a brilliantly awkward Kate Micucci) plays an amateur taxidermist longing to fit in with her glamorous colleagues at the bank. Despite her husband’s (Martin Starr) protestations, she cannot resist the lure of Alo Glo, sold on television infomercials by a deliciously camp Dan Stevens. It’s a classic tale of “be careful what you wish for” done with all the panache you would expect of Del Toro and director Amirpour.

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Dan with The Guest and then you with Girl Walks Home were on the 2014 festival circuit, Sundance and all that, you guys have a history together. So I'm excited that you got to finally collaborate on something like this

I worked with him on an episode of Legion, too. That's where we met. I loved The GuestThe Guest is one of my favorite movies. I love that movie. Then we worked on Legion. Dan is one of those actors I love. He's one of those chameleons, he's really like, I equate him on the scale of what Johnny Depp was doing earlier in his career where he could do anything. He could play deranged characters and just go to all different places, a huge spectrum. So Dan is really special.