Emma Watson, You Have Your Beast! Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens Gets Cast As The Beast In The Live-Action Beauty & The Beast!

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and Dan Stevens!
For those hoping for Ryan Gosling to go into beast mode, sorry, but the Downton Abbey star has nabbed the role opposite of Emma Watson‘s Belle in the forthcoming live action Beauty and the Beast!
[ Related: Emma Watson Responds To The Prince Harry Dating Rumors! ]
Sure, like any Disney fan, we don’t like what we don’t understand, in fact it scares us, but Dan is the perfect choice for the temperamental Prince with anger management issues!
He was ever so charming as Matthew Crawley, we just know that Dan will be perfect in this very hairy role!
In addition to being by Emma’s side, Dan also joins Luke Evans who was just cast as Gaston!