Sebastian attended 2024 San Diego International Comic-Con to promote Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts*’. To see the first post containing 100+ UHQ photos, various video interviews (IGN, Entertainment Tonight, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Deadline Hollywood, The Movie Report) , and screen captures please click here for post one: ‘Thunderbolts*’ at SDCC Day 3 – Photos, Video Interviews, Screen Captures. I’ve added more videos including from the press line, and more interviews click below to watch and enjoy the screen captures.
Sebastian attended 2024 San Diego International Comic-Con to promote Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts*’. I’ve posted videos (click below to watch), of the panel (minus film footage), and various interviews as well as screen captures of each of these to the gallery. In addition I’ve added 100+ UHQ photos from the event to the gallery as well. Please click here for post 2 with more interviews and screen captures.
Sebastian Stan has played real life protagonists on film before – most notably Jeff Gillooly, in the critically acclaimed, I, Tonya and Tommy Lee in awards-winning Pam and Tommy. But his turn as former president, Donald Trump, in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, is attracting heat – not least from the 45th POTUS himself. ‘As always it’s about understanding,’ Stan told Hollywood Authentic when we shot him before the premiere at the Palais. ‘The challenge was perhaps working against preconceived ideas or what’s currently out there. Had to go back in time. To the beginning. And go step by step without judgment.’
Premiering in Cannes this week, The Apprentice charts the rise of Trump in 70s and 80s New York as he evolves from a debt collector with real estate ambitions to a Manhattan baller who learns how to ‘win’ from unscrupulous lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). An origin story, if you will.
Stan, with his sandy wig and pursed lips, portrays Trump as a nuanced sponge to Cohen’s shady mentorship, a kid trying to get out from under the shadow of his father who takes advice we now recognise as his MO, and runs with it. As he grows in capital and stature, the boy becomes a man, the persona fixed.
It’s certainly a big swing for Stan, taking on the depiction of such a divisive, current figure. But the gamble paid off in Cannes – the film received an 8 minute standing ovation at its premiere and prompted discussion on the Croisette. Though Trump himself is threatening to sue to production and disputing the depiction of events.
‘The hope we have is that people watch the film cos I always feel that there is always something to learn,’ Stan says of the movie that sees Trump betray family and friends, get liposuction and BJs, and bend the truth to his needs. ‘For me as an actor standing next to this brave artist [Abbasi] that I respect and will follow wherever he goes – and all these people that had enough balls to do this project – we have to take on things that are risky and perhaps uncomfortable to talk about. I think it’s important that we do, because it’s in our face every day and we need to have a perspective. And I think there’s a lot to learn from the film.’
Sebastian Stan wears Balenciago. Watch by Cartier.
I’ve added a ton to the gallery of Sebastian at the New Directors/New Films Opening Night Selection ‘A Different Man’ (and second screening) to promote ‘A Different Man’. I’ve added over 100+ Screen Captures of Sebastian at the event to the gallery. I’ve also added 30+ UHQ photos of the events to the gallery also click below to watch the videos of the festival and a Q&A (that may be spoiler-y!). The audio is also included here on Spotify.
I’ve added a ton to the gallery of Sebastian at the 74th Berlinale Film Festival to promote ‘A Different Man’. I’ve added over 100+ Screen Captures of the Photocall, Red Carpet + Press Conference. I’ve also added 50+ UHQ photos of the events to the gallery also click below to watch the video of the press conference & photocall.
I’ve added 100+ photos of Sebastian at Sundance for various events and the premiere of ‘A Different Man’ to the gallery along with some professional photos. Thank you to Elizabeth-Olsen.com for the extra assistance. There’s also various video interviews and accompanying screen captures at the following links: Variety Studio, Deadline Studio, and THR Studio. There’s also the after film Q+A which may contain spoilersSundance Film Q+A
Sebastian Stan is back at Sundance this year for the world premiere of A24’s “A Different Man,” co-starring Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve. The three actors joined director Aaron Schimberg at the Variety Studio presented by Audible to discuss the film, which centers on an aspiring actor with a facial disability who undergoes a radical medical procedure to transform his appearance that proves to be his downfall.
Stan told Variety’s Matt Donnelly that “A Different Man” was shot in only 22 days. To appear in scenes with a facial disability, Stan was in the makeup chair for “probably one-and-a-half to two hours.” Pearson, a British actor with neurofibromatosis who is best known for his role in “Under the Skin,” hopes “A Different Man” gives cinema new kind of representation for actors with facial disabilities.
“Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us,” Pearson said. “We’re either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I want to kill Batman or James Bond, or the victim like ‘woe is me,’ or the hero, because I have a disability but do regular stuff I’m somehow braver than the next guy.”
“It’s lazy writing,” Pearson added. “Why are non-disabled people writing about disability without consultation? When that happens, the end result …you might get it right once, but 9 times out 10 it’s going to be very inauthentic and inaccurate.”
Stan said that he was “cautious” to take the role because he just “wanted to service the story the right way,” adding: “It’s an important story. It’s a subject that doesn’t really get a lot of light on it. We just really wanted to do it right.”
Elsewhere during the interview, Stan revealed that he had a panic attack during an audition for Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” He went out for a role in the film that ultimately went to Domhnall Gleeson. The actor said he “hyperventilated” during the audition and “I got very nervous and I didn’t get it.”
Next up for Stan is a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He’ll once again be playing the Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes in “Thunderbolts.”
“I’m excited. I’m going to go back basically in a month or so. I’ve missed it. It’s a great cast,” Stan said before alluding to Marvel’s recent box office struggles. “The batting average is so high that it’s difficult to always land everything right away. It’s always been a great experience. With this one in particular, I think there’s a lot of good things.”
A24 is expected to release “A Different Man” in theaters at some point in 2024.
LOGLINE: Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
Panelists: Aaron Schimberg, Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve.
Key Quote: Adam Pearson: I want people to go see it and I want people to talk about it. I think we as humans tend to avoid discomfort at all costs like it’s a bad thing. But I think a little bit of discomfort when you can fight through it in the end makes us better people…It’s always easy to make a film and get an audience and tell them what to think. And if you do that, you can change what they think for maybe a day. But with something like this, it’s nuanced and a real springboard to conversation. It does it on a whole different level. Good cinema can change what you think. Great cinema can change how you think.
‘Sharper’ promo continues! More interviews from Romeo International, On Demand, The Curvy Critic, Beondtv, Blavity TV and eCartelera are below. Screen Captures are now in the gallery as well.