I’ve added 30+ UHQ/untagged photos of Sebastian from 79th Cannes Film Festival [Airport Arrivals] yesterday to the gallery, click below to view. These have been added because he’s arriving to the festival for work.
Note: For the accompanying photoshoot images click here: Session # 170 -Andrew Zaeh, for the screencaps of the behind the scenes click here: Photoshoot: Deadline Distruptors [Behind the Scenes] (2026), for the video click here.
In Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, Sebastian Stan returns to his Romanian roots with a story that forces us to examine our prejudices, our assumptions, and the treatment of immigrants. Starring opposite Renate Reinsve, Stan once again plunges into a risky, thorny role with a look that belies his MCU star status. As he prepares for both fatherhood and playing a supervillain in The Batman: Part II, he’s focused on being one of the good guys.
Sebastian Stan has been thinking about men. He’s been reading a lot on the subject; studying it, if you will. What makes a good man? How can we support children and young people? What should we do about social media? All this prep is for a role of sorts, but not an acting one. Soon, he and his partner, actor Annabelle Wallis, will welcome their first child.
“I want to be a good dad,” he says simply.
We’re discussing his latest film Fjord, which will premiere in Competition at Cannes. Stan plays a man forced to contemplate his own value as a father and as a man — an experience that must now seem serendipitous, given the timing of his personal life.
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“That’s your responsibility, to look at all the parts of yourself, even the ones you don’t like, the questions you’re afraid of, to see who you are, how you were made, and then ask yourself: okay, now what do you want to do with this? ”
Leaving. For an 8-year-old, leaving can be a concept that comes to mind far too early, especially if they are venturing into the unknown. However, it becomes bearable when they have a mother who is determined to give them a new life.
The departure is rooted in the story of Sebastian Stan’s life. He left Constan?a as a child, leaving behind his beloved grandparents and friends on the stairs of the apartment building. He arrived with his mother in Austria, then in America, in New York. So that later his acting career would involve other and other departures.
But today we will not talk about leaving, but about returning .
With an extraordinary capacity for transformation, choosing the most different scenarios possible, Sebastian Stan is now one of the most appreciated actors in Hollywood, winner of a Golden Globe and nominated for an Oscar. He has dual citizenship – American and Romanian.
And in just a few weeks, he will be seen acting for the first time in a Romanian film, Fjord , directed by Cristian Mungiu, where any cinema artist fits perfectly – at the Cannes Film Festival, in the official competition.
To get close to a celebrity like Sebastian Stan, you normally have to go through an army of agents, whether impresarios, publicists, or literally, security guards.
On the set of the film in Fjord , Norway, things were different. For more than a month, Stan took off his invisible superstar cape and integrated himself into the different layers of the film crew, made up of Romanians, Norwegians, Swedes and Finns.
Also normally, such a celebrity rarely gives interviews and only to major, internationally known publications.
The fact that Sebastian Stan decided to give his first interview in Romania, after his Oscar nomination, to a small publication like Cultura la dub?, says much more about him than about us. It is just one of the ways in which he puts his notoriety at the service of others, to support causes he believes in, causes that otherwise do not enjoy much support. With the same reasoning, he supported, as producer and financier, the debut feature film of a Romanian director – Malul Vân?t , by Andreea Bor?un.
The discussion with Sebastian Stan was as natural as possible and touched on personal topics, which help us see him beyond his acting career. From the searches of a child who woke up in a completely different world, to the 42-year-old adult who tries to find his true identity and his role on earth. All this, in the context of the painful loss of his father – “with my father I spoke only in Romanian, which had created a very special intimacy between us, like an invisible thread that was only ours.”
What role does film play in this whole story? It is the art through which Stan can most authentically contribute to a world torn by conflict. And it is also part of his own quest.
The interview took place in Norway, in April 2025, during a filming break. Sebastian chose to speak in Romanian, but in places some ideas were expressed in English.
The material also presents the first images of Sebastian Stan on the set of Fjord , captured by photographer Adi Bulboac for Cultura la dub.
I found a short interview of Sebastian and Anthony Mackie for ‘Captain America: Civil War‘ press in 2016. I’ve added screencaps to the gallery and a video of the interview below. I’m adding this because most of the interview links that are now on the site from this film are now inactive and I have no idea if its new/old or just old seeing as this film is before I ran the site. Enjoy.
Surprise! I found a short interview of Sebastian from Berlinale Film Festival in 2024 after he received the Silver Bear for ‘A Different Man‘. I’ve added screencaps to the gallery and a video of the interview below. Enjoy.
Malul Vânât / A River’s Gaze, the debut feature film by director Andreea Cristina Bortun and also the first Romanian project supported by Romanian-American actor Sebastian Stan , as producer and financier, has been selected in the SMART 7 competition , a network of international festivals supported by the Creative Europe Programme. In Romania, it will be screened at TIFF, the festival being part of SMART 7.
Andreea Bortun talks below about the research work on this film and working with non-professional actors, met in the rural environment. And Sebastian Stan tells exclusively for Cultura la dub why he decided to get involved in the production of the film.
The Blue Shore is the first part of a trilogy about love in the countryside. The film is an anthropological drama that adopts a rare approach: the cast is made up of over 60% non-professional actors, met in the villages where Andreea Cristina Bortun conducted field documentation for six years (2017–2022).
“Thanks to an impressive effort by the entire team, the filming took place over four seasons, capturing the cycle of nature and rural life. The film explores the tense and yet touching dynamic between Lavinia and her 14-year-old son, Dani, in a village in southern Romania. The director talks about combining artistic elements with anthropological work. For me, using artistic research tools borrowed from anthropological fieldwork came at first as something intuitive. It seemed natural and necessary to take part and get to know the world that interested me closely. They bring themselves to the screen first and foremost, and that very real something remains over time. This aspect of hybridity between what may seem documentary, but which is at the same time a product of fiction, is something that interests me as part of my long-term artistic practice. The years of field research, the discussions with local women who shared their life stories with me, especially the defining encounter with one of them – a model for Lavinia’s interiority -, I hope will ensure a fair representation of today’s Romanian countryside, which, after all, is home to half of
Sebastian Stan for Cultura la dub: “There are many female directors in Romania who have something to say.”
The project encountered several obstacles, and in its support came the American actor of Romanian origin, Sebastian Stan. Winner of the Golden Globe and nominated for the Oscars last year, Sebastian Stan tells exclusively for Cultura la dub? why he decided to get involved in the production of the film Malul vân?t . Known for his close relationship with his mother, to whom he dedicated his Golden Globe win, Sebastian Stan was impressed by the script by Andreea Bortun, which shows the struggle of a mother to give her son a better life.
“I was very happy to have this opportunity to support a project by a young director, just starting out, her first feature film.I think it’s really important, if we can, to support these new voices. Often great careers are born from these first steps. Think of Martin Scorsese, who debuted with Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967) thanks to the support of producer Roger Corman, paving the way for masterpieces like Taxi Driver later. I can’t say that my support was as decisive, as important, but I tried to be with him in this endeavor as much as I could. My roots are there, in Romania, even though I left when I was only 8 years old, and the first time I returned was only when I was 21. This long break made the return not only physical, but much more revealing, I could even say spiritual. Through the films I make and my chosen profession, I want to contribute in a way that is beyond me, that goes beyond my personal ego. That’s why I got involved in Andreea Bortun’s film, because there are many female directors in Romania who have something to say. And she had a story that was a little similar to my story with my mother, there are some small parallels there. And it wasn’t just that that attracted me to this project, but also the way it was made: the research carried out over 6 years, the filming done in the four seasons, something quite rare for a fiction feature film. Over 60% of the cast are non-professionals from the regions where the filming took place, ordinary people who were given a real chance to interpret what they experience day to day and not just in a feature film. Including one of the main actors, the boy, which I consider to be a brave bet for a debut director, not many take it on,” Sebastian Stan told Cultura la dub .
I’ve added 7 UHQ/untagged photos of Sebastian from Ami Paris Chez Balthazar Restaurant last night to the gallery, click below to view.
There are 1 new UHQ/Untagged photo added and it’s the first look photo still from ‘Fjord’. Click the link below, enjoy.
There are 5 new/updated UHQ/Untagged photos added to the gallery. ‘Picnic’ Broadway Opening Night – After Party are new to the album for that specific event enjoy.
I found a short interview of Sebastian talking about ‘Pam & Tommy‘ with Lily James. I’ve added screencaps to the gallery and a video of the interview below. Enjoy.
