When you think about the cross section between fashion and Watergate, your brain probably defaults to boring, grey suits—except, perhaps, if you’re Dan Stevens. Stevens was dressed to the nines in a groovy, sherbet-tinged suit for Monday night’s premiere of Gaslit, Starz’s miniseries about the 70’s scandal. The show stars Sean Penn and Julia Roberts as John N. Mitchell and Martha Mitchell, Nixon’s attorney general and his fiercely outspoken wife, as well as Stevens and Betty Gilpin as whistleblower John Dean and his savvy wife, Mo Kane Deane.
Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gaslit premiere saw Stevens stun in creamsicle-inspired suit, which boldly swirled orange, pink, yellow and red ink. The pattern was reminiscent of both a lava lamp and fruit stripe gum, a complement to the red carpet’s color scheme. “I wanted to blend in,” Stevens exclusively told V.F. “I wanted to come disguised as a work of art.”
Stevens’ color coordination was down to his nails, each of which were painted a different hue found in his suit.
Along with being a meticulous dresser, Stevens is also an easygoing scene partner, according to co-star Gilpin. “I think that you never really know when you show up day one, what the actor opposite you was going to be like,” she told V.F. on the carpet. “You never know if he’s gonna be ultra Method and terrifying, or doesn’t want to look you in the eye, or, you know, is a horror show. Dan is just a saint and so the opposite of that, which often makes me be like, ‘Oh, then he’s probably not a very good actor if he’s normal.’ And then he was such a great actor.”
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