Dan Stevens’ brutal takedown of Boris Johnson makes BBC presenters audibly gasp

Individuals having a go at politicians on stay TV is nothing new, but it surely’s not usually you get an actor styling out a long-winded burn with fairly as a lot pizzazz as British actor Dan Stevens managed throughout his look on the BBC’s The One Present.

On Wednesday, the Downton Abbey and Eurovision Track Contest star was being interviewed about his new Starz political thriller collection, Gaslit, which is all about Richard Nixon and the 1970s Watergate scandal, which led to the president’s resignation.

When requested to set the present up, although, that is what Stevens stated:

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“Properly what you’ve got acquired is a prison for a frontrunner who’s wrapped in a messy battle, embroiled in a silly scandal and surrounded by formidable idiots, and actually ought to resign,” Stevens says within the clip above.

“And…um…no, I am sorry, that is the intro to Boris Johnson. I’ve simply stated the intro to Boris Johnson, I am so sorry.”

You actually cannot fault the supply, which was met with a mixture of muffled laughter and shocked gasps from the presenters and crew within the room.

Johnson, it is value noting, has not too long ago obtained a police high-quality for breaching lockdown guidelines with events and gatherings at authorities residences in the summertime of 2020. He is confronted calls by some to resign, however has refused.

The clip of Stevens — which the actor himself has since retweeted — has been seen nearly 6 million occasions on Twitter.