GQ UK -With an uncanny performance as a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice and an even less recognisable turn in A Different Man, the shapeshifting actor is embracing his freaky side.
When Sebastian Stan was growing up in Romania in the 1980s, he began to learn English through passive immersion. His mother, a concert pianist, would regularly play English music and language lessons on the family record player while they were going about their day. “I’d be playing with toys and I’d hear, like, ‘frog’ and ‘dog’, or whatever,” Stan says. It meant that by the time the actor moved to Vienna at age eight, where he attended an American international school – and later, when he moved to New York at 12 – he had a decent jumping-off point. “I’m a big believer in putting yourself in a situation where, subconsciously, there’s work being done.”
I’ve added 7 new ‘A Different Man‘ press interviews with screencaps to the gallery. You can watch below from Universal Pictures, Collider, Radio Times, Hits Radio, Curzon, Rotten Tomatoes, and letterboxd again. I’ve also added one ‘The Apprentice‘ mini interview with screen captures.
Sebastian was on Graham Norton Show last night. I’ve added photos, videos and screencaps below. You can watch the show here on the BBC or below. Thanks to Sandra for the assistance. Enjoy.
Sebastian and Adam were on ‘This Morning’ in the UK this morning. I’ve added photos, videos and screencaps below. Thanks to Sandra for the assistance. Enjoy.
Hello! There’s been a ton added to the gallery. Entertainment Weekly has done a cover story for ‘The Apprentice’ and I’ve posted all of the videos below as well as screen captures and UHQ/untagged photos of the photoshoot in the gallery, enjoy.
Entertainment Weekly – Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong take EW inside the making of a film so controversial, no major Hollywood studio would touch it.
Sebastian Stan didn’t become Donald Trump until the helicopter took off.
Moments earlier, before the rotor blades whirled, director Ali Abbasi was getting nervous. After five years of preparation and delays, the Iranian Danish filmmaker was finally rolling on what would become this year’s most controversial film, the Trump origin story The Apprentice (in theaters Oct. 11). But when he looked at his star sitting across from Jeremy Strong in character as Trump’s notorious mentor, Roy Cohn, he had a sinking feeling something wasn’t right.
“I was looking at them like, ‘Wow, they look weird, man. Is this going to work?'” Abbasi tells Entertainment Weekly a year later, from Copenhagen. “Then the chopper starts lifting, and I’m like, ‘Well, I guess I’m going to find out.'”
Once they were in the air, a transformation occurred that neither Abbasi nor the actors can fully explain. “Suddenly, it started to work,” the director says. “And I thought, ‘If it’s working here, it’s probably going to work on the ground, too.'”
“Until you cross that Rubicon, there’s a certain measure of dread and uncertainty,'” says Strong, sitting next to Stan at their EW cover shoot last month. “So that, compounded with the fact that we were up in the air precariously in a helicopter, being buffeted around by the wind, was a fitting first day.”
Entertainment Weekly – Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong peel back the layers on Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, in the year’s most controversial biopic.
Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong are pulling back the curtain on Donald Trump’s origin story in this year’s most polarizing film, The Apprentice. The duo go toe-to-toe in visionary director Ali Abbasi’s punk-rock biopic, which charts Trump’s (Stan) rise in the ‘80s from wannabe mogul to global icon — all thanks to his mentor, Roy Cohn (Strong).
In Entertainment Weekly’s cover story on the film, Stan, Strong, Maria Bakalova (who plays Ivana Trump), Abbasi, and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman open up about the challenges they faced, Trump’s legal threats, and releasing the incendiary movie just weeks before the U.S. election. Check out our full cover story for The Apprentice, and see all of EW’s exclusive photos of Stan and Strong below.
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