Dan Stevens: 5 things to know about the ‘Beast’
We are just days away from the highly-anticipated debut of Disney’s newest live-action film “Beauty and the Beast.” Emma Watson stars as Belle while Dan Stevens takes on the role of the Beast.
Stevens recently stopped by ABC News’ “Popcorn with Peter Travers.”
Here are 5 things we learned about Stevens
1. He learned to walk and dance on stilts for his role as the Beast
“Emma is small. She’s shorter than me. She’s a petite lady. And that extra 10 inches just accentuated the height,” Stevens said. He added that the stilts required some getting used to.
“She’s a great dancer but she was terrified of me that I was going to break her toes in these contraptions that I was wearing,” said Stevens. “Fortunately we learned the dance on the ground. As I always say to my kids, if you think you can fly, always test it taking off from the ground. So we learned it on the ground and then worked our way up to these stilts,” he said. Then they found their rhythm.
“Once we got the footwork down, the dancing on the stilts was surprisingly easy. I thought it was going to be a lot more tragic than it actually was,” he remarked. “But once we broke through that sort of fear barrier, it was fantastic….
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