Sebastian was on Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz this week. Below is the video and Screen Captures + the audio players.
Sean shares a recap of the best movies he caught at the 62nd New York Film Festival, including the heavy hitters at this upcoming Oscars, the latest installations from old masters and personal favorites, and the biggest surprises of the festival (1:00). Then, Ringer writer and Press Box host Bryan Curtis joins to share the myriad successes and failures of The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s character portrait of early Donald Trump’s rise to power in the New York real estate world and his complex relationship with lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn (50:00). Then, Sebastian Stan, who portrays Trump in the film, joins (1:30:00) to discuss how he chooses projects, what attracts him to playing characters who transform, and the long journey to getting The Apprentice in theaters. They also discuss his work in A Different Man, Aaron Schimberg’s new A24 movie about an aspiring young actor who undergoes a procedure to drastically alter his appearance in the hopes of improving his career prospects.
I’ve added more press interviews for ‘The Apprentice‘ along with interviews from the BFI Red Carpet today in London. Enjoy the update.
RTE RADIO 1. Below is an interview on the radio from today, enjoy. Thank you to Agostina for the heads up.
I’ve added 28 photos to the gallery UHQ/Untagged of Sebastian at “The Apprentice” Green Carpet – 20th Zurich Film Festival that took place yesterday. There’s also a green carpet interview and screen captures below.
Aaron Schimberg’s new film, A Different Man, wears a few disguises: comedy, drama, paranoid thriller. It’s also a delirious tug of war between two men. There’s Edward, an aspiring actor with neurofibromatosis who undergoes facial reconstruction surgery, played by Sebastian Stan. And then there’s Oswald, a charming man about town played by Adam Pearson, an actor with neurofibromatosis. Edward’s post-surgery life is upturned as his girlfriend and colleagues and career fall under Oswald’s spell. As Pearson says of his character in the latest episode of Esquire’s Freeze Frame: “I have the rizz, as the kids would say.”
In the episode, Pearson and Stan – who clearly get along a lot better in real like than they do on screen – go deep on their characters’ love-hate-can’t-get-enough-of-you dynamic as well as Oswald’s impressive karaoke offering (Pearson listened to “I Wanna Get Next to You” by Rose Royce for five hours as preparation). They also discuss the difficulty of defining the genre of this movie and the characters’ motivations. Is Edward mad? Is Oswald sincere? Ultimately, as Pearson points out, the film works because “it holds up mirrors rather than placards”. Watch on to figure things out yourself.
Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on Becoming Roy Cohn and Donald Trump
October 10, 2024
Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan stopped by the Vogue office to tell us all about the making of one of 2024’s most controversial films, The Apprentice, which portrays the mentor/protoge relationship between the powerhouse lawyer Ray Cohn, played by Strong, and Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan. Strong and Stan share why they felt it was important to make the film, the lengths they went to to embody the characters, and what they are hoping audiences take from the film as we head into the presidential election.