Category: Projects

Dec
03

Photo/Video: The Gothams 34th Annual Film Awards (w/ video + screen captures)

Sebastian attended The Gothams 34th Annual Film Awards tonight and A Different Man won best film. I’ve added photos, video, and screencaps below. Enjoy.

Nov
22

Photo/Video: Sebastian Stan on playing Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’ and disfigured actor in ‘A Different Man’ | Gold Derby Interview (w/ screen captures)

Nov
22

News: Sebastian Stan on playing Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’ and a disfigured actor in ‘A Different Man’: ‘The margin of error for me was very small’

Gold Derby

Sebastian Stan is receiving major awards buzz for two films this year. In Ali Abbasi‘s “The Apprentice,” he plays a young Donald Trump as he starts his real-estate business in 1970s and ’80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn (Jeremy Strong). In Aaron Schimberg‘s dark comedy “A Different Man,” Stan plays a disfigured aspiring actor who undergoes a radical medical procedure to transform his appearance. Stan chats with Gold Derby about both roles in the video interview above.

The actor says “fear” and his “lack of actual knowledge about this person” inspired him to take on the role of Trump. “Like everybody else, I’ve been inundated with a constant influx of information online, ‘SNL’ impressions, headlines, horrific soundbites of his, and I had maybe had my own ideas about the guy,” he explains. “I actually feel like I really didn’t know who he was, or how did he become what he became?”

“As an actor, you’re hoping to find projects that challenge you, but also truly ask very important, uncomfortable questions,” Stan says. “We’re talking about someone who has affected all of our lives. I felt there was a responsibility to really try to hold a mirror up to nature.” Stan likens his preparation for the role to “learning an instrument.” He had to master Trump’s mannerisms and speech, which were drastically different in the 1970s.

Stan reveals, “You study footage and listen to audio for hours on end. Basically it takes over your life. It takes a long time, and then eventually you can just do it in your sleep and not think about it. You want it to feel organic, and you want it to feel earned so it’s not something you’re conscious of. The caricature, the cartoon, the ‘SNL’ impression were always going to be a mountain to climb. Everyone’s got some back pocket impression of him…The margin of error for me was very small.”

The actor plays the real estate mogul and then-future president in the 1970s and 80s, and Stan explains how much Trump has changed since then. “He didn’t start out to be this character,” he says. “He’s actually been inventing himself every 10 years, arguably. It’s quite fascinating because people change, but we don’t all change that much or that drastically. He’s had very different points in his life that led him to this. The building of Trump Tower, Atlantic City was another point for him, and then really ‘The Apprentice,’ which is the version we’ve been living with. This character he’s learned pretty well and shaped in that show. For our purposes, when you go back in time, there was a guy that was really not that sure of himself.”

Stan plays another man with deep insecurities in “A Different Man.” His character, Edward, suffers from neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes tumors to grow on his face. “It was such a unique, different film,” he says. “Not just in terms of how unbelievably unpredictable the movie is. It’s funny, it’s tragic. It’s exciting for an actor and you actually feel surprised by the material.”

“There’s this underlying message of about identity and self-truth,” he continues. “Not just how it pertains to disability and disfigurement, and how we don’t really have a relationship with that at all. We are curious, but afraid to rely on our curiosity, and therefore we manage to walk away without any education or awareness about someone’s experience in those shoes. It really is about something we’re all facing now, which is, who am I? And who am I separately from how I look to other people?”

Stan stars with Adam Pearson, an actor who actually has neurofibromatosis. “It was a very tricky line to walk,” Stan says. “The prosthetics by Mike Marino were so great, that at times, people don’t even know if it’s me or him. It’s so cleverly and expertly woven together by Aaron, and it’s about what happens to this person that has denied himself for so long, and then when he thinks he gets this life he’s always wanted, he finds out that the cost he paid was his true self.”

Nov
21

Photo/Video: ‘The Apprentice’ With Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, and More | Academy Conversations (w/ screen captures)

Nov
20

Photo/Video: ET, ETalk, AP, Miami FF, Comic Con Liverpool (w/ screen captures) + ‘Apprentice’ Screening Q+A

Video round up post with screen captures! Videos from recent events, and a few others along with their corresponding screencaps are below. Videos include Comic Con Liverpool, AP Entertainment, ETalk, Entertainment Tonight, Miami Film Festival, and Last One Left Around. I’ve also included a Q+A from the latest Apprentice screening where Sebastian revealed some important information.








Nov
17

Photos: Los Angeles Special Screening of “The Apprentice”

Sebastian attended Los Angeles Special Screening of “The Apprentice” this weekend. I’ve added UHQ/untagged photos to the gallery

Nov
13

Video/Photos: Live Awards Chatter Podcast with Scott Feinberg & Precious GEM Award

Video of Live Awards Chatter Podcast with Scott Feinberg & Precious GEM Award – Miami Film Festival is now live. I’ve also added 1,000+ screen captures to the gallery.

Nov
11

News/Audio: ‘Awards Chatter’ Live Pod: Sebastian Stan on ‘The Apprentice,’ ‘A Different Man,’ Trump and Marvel

THR – In front of an audience at the Miami Film Festival’s GEMS event, the star of two of 2024’s most widely discussed and debated films reflected on his life and career.

Sebastian Stan, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience at the Miami Film Festival GEMS event last week, is one of the top young actors in Hollywood. Though he’s only 42, he has been acting on screens big and small for more than 20 years. He has been a part of giant blockbusters (he plays Bucky Barnes in Marvel’s superhero movies) and prestige projects (I, Tonya on film and Pam & Tommy on TV). And he has received Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice award noms. But he has never had a year as big as his 2024.

This year, Stan is in the running for a best actor Oscar nomination for not one but two performances: as Edward, an aspiring actor afflicted with the craniofacial condition neurofibromatosis who undergoes groundbreaking facial reconstructive surgery, in Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man, for which he was awarded the Berlin International Film Festival’s best actor prize; and as Donald Trump, a young businessman in the 1970s and 1980s learning the ropes from, and then abandoning, his mentor, Roy Cohn, in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice.

Over the course of our conversation, Stan, who was born in Romania, reflects on coming to America with his mother at the age of 12 and discussing the American dream; breaking in to the business on TV’s Gossip Girl, in the 2007 Broadway production of Talk Radio and in Jonathan Demme’s 2008 film Rachel Getting Married; big auditions that didn’t pan out, including one for the part of Captain America, which led to him being cast as Bucky Barnes; what he learned acting opposite the likes of Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep; how he came to and navigated the two tricky parts he played in 2024 films; what led him to the conclusion that Trump is a danger to America; plus more.

Nov
09

Video/Photos: D23 Special Look ‘Thunderbolts*’

Nov
06

Audio: Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster – Sebastian Stan

Sebastian was a guest on Off the Menu podcast click below to listen.

The MCU’s Winter Solider – and star of ‘A Different Man” and ‘The Apprentice’ – Sebastian Stan is this week’s dream diner. But we better watch out, he might prank us. Trigger warning: this episode contains some chat about dieting. Sebastian stars in ‘A Different Man’ which is in cinemas now. He also stars in ‘The Apprentice’ which is in cinemas now.
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