Actor Dan Stevens is set to star in an upcoming movie about the dating app Bumble and just admitted to looking at Grindr with a friend in the past!
In a new interview with Variety, the 42-year-old Downton Abbey star joked about finding out he was surrounded by “horny gay men.”
It was his role as Bumble investor Andrey Andreev in Swiped — the working title for a film that will be released by Hulu later this year — that got Stevens talking about dating apps.
Stevens admitted to interviewer Marc Malkin that dating apps “came along after my time,” so he’s never actually swiped right on anyone himself.
“It’s a brave new world out there,” he said. “I know some people who are very actively into it, shall we say. That in itself is a very interesting sort of phenomenon. A friend of mine calls it Candy Crush for Humans.”
While he’s never partaken himself, he did check out a friend’s Grindr account once and was surprised by what he saw.
“I’ve had friends who’ve shown me apps. I remember a friend who showed me the early days of Grindr,” Stevens explained. “We were on Broadway and just to show me what sort of the radar was – we were in the basement of a Broadway theater — he showed me, and he was like, ‘Well, this guy is 750 feet away.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’”
The Cuckoo star then joked about how many horny men are on the gay hookup app.
“And it was just like all these little dots of all these horny gay men sort of circling us. So I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is terrifying,’” he teased.
“They’re not horny gay men. We’re just looking for love, Dan. It’s just love,” Malkin quipped in response.
“They might be horny. We don’t know,” Stevens laughed.
Too bad his upcoming film is about Bumble and not Grindr because we would be extra seated!
