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.
Category: A Different Man
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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.
I’ve added more ‘Apprentice‘ press interviews below and one video which analyzes a scene from ‘A Different Man’ and screen captures have been added to the gallery. Enjoy.
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > AP News
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Entertainment Tonight
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Extra TV
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Access Hollywood #2
Dread Central – The “Apprentice” stars and the director Ali Abbasi say their film is a “humanistic” treatment of the former president and his mentor, Roy Cohn.
Adam Schimberg’s new film A Different Man is many things. It’s funny, tense, scary, sad, heart-warming, and a little gross, all while centering on two incredible performances from Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson. It’s a story that goes to uncomfortable places, especially in how it confronts how we perceive ourselves and the people around us and how insecurity can slowly destroy you.
In the film:
An aspiring actor (Sebastian Stan) undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. However, his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
While A Different Man isn’t a horror film, per se, Schimberg is still playing in that sandbox, especially when it comes to crafting his own personal brand of body horror. And that’s ignoring the pervasive sense of dread that builds in each frame. It’s almost like Cronenberg meets the weirdest episode of Seinfeld.
Schimberg, Stan, and Pearson spoke with Dread Central at Fantastic Fest about the power of prosthetics, why we love horror, and Poltergeist.
Dread Central: Congratulations on showing A Different Man to a horror crowd. I loved when you said last night before the screening that you wanted to show this to a horror crowd. Why have you been so excited for horror people to see this?
There are 8 new press videos for ‘The Apprentice‘ and two new for ‘A Different Man‘ with accompanying screen captures in the gallery, enjoy.
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Heart Radio
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > CBS Mornings
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Black Girl Nerds
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Next Best Picture
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Access Hollywood
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Deadline
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > Indiewire
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > ODE Entertainment
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘The Apprentice’ Press Tour > NYC Premiere Q + A
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Total Film
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Film Independent
Sebastian Stan believes creativity is the best therapy. So even when he’s playing an unappealing person, like Jeff Gillooly in I, Tonya or Donald Trump in the new film The Apprentice, Sebastian knows there’s always something to learn about humanity through his performances. Sebastian talks with Marc about fleeing from his home country of Romania at a young age, learning from master filmmakers like Jonathan Demme, seeking out unique material like the film A Different Man, and finding out that his portrayal of Bucky Barnes in the Marvel franchise has helped people through tough times.
WTF POD WITH MARC MARON –click to listen/download the podcast isn’t embeddable on the site, interview starts around the 17 min mark
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.
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Radio Times
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Hits Radio
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Letterboxd #2
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Collider
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Curzon
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Rotten Tomatoes
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > ‘A Different Man’ Press Tour > Universal Pictures UK