Luke Evans liberated by 'Beauty and the Beast' role

Actor Luke Evans says he relished every moment of playing the 'ridiculous, self-absorbed and terrifying' villain

Gaston

in '

Beauty

and the

Beast

'.

The 37-year-old actor says he feels liberated after the role as his character was so different to himself in real life.


"It's fun to play a character who does all the things you'd never dare to do in real life. It's liberating - you can't feel self-conscious about playing somebody like Gaston, you just have to go with it,"

Evans

said.

"I owe it to the animated giant of a creature we see in the original to be that ridiculous and self-absorbed and terrifying. And to enjoy it."