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Category: A Different Man
Nov
01
Los Angeles Magazine – The ‘Pam & Tommy’ star appears unrecognizable in two projects that prove he’s a master of transformation.
Note: For the accompanying photoshoot click here: Session #143 – Irvin Rivera
“I have these very vivid memories,” says 42-year-old actor Sebastian Stan of growing up in Romania during the 1989 revolution.
“One of them being this Dacia car, driving by with screaming people holding the flag. The flag had a hole in the middle, which they had cut out — [erasing] the communist symbol at the time. And then I remember being on my couch with my mom and my grandmother and neighbors, watching Ceausescu be shot.”
What propelled them was the “obsession” Eastern Europeans had with the American Dream. “All I ever heard about was America: the land of the free, the land of opportunity,” says Stan, who at 8, moved with his mother — a pianist, who named him after composer Johann Sebastian Bach — to Vienna before heading to the U.S.
“I remember coming to this country when I was 12 with my mom and seeing the big Twin Towers of New York City and feeling overwhelmed,” Stan says. “And my mom looking at me and saying: “Now you have a chance to become someone.”
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Oct
29
L’OFFICIEL – The actor caught up with L’OFFICIEL at the CFDA Fashion Awards to discuss wearing Thom Browne and his transformative roles in A Different Man and The Apprentice.
Note: For the accompanying photoshoot click here: Session #142 – Ryan Lowry
On camera and off, Sebastian Stan is always aware of what he is wearing, whether he’s suited up as the Winter Soldier in Captain America or sporting jeans and a T-shirt on a day off. The actor— who stars in and is winning over buzz for his transformative performances in A Different Man and The Apprentice—represented Thom Browne at the 2024 CFDA Fashion Awards on October 28 in New York City at the American Museum of Natural History. For the event, Stan wore a full Thom Browne look: a classic ticket pocket tuxedo with self-tipping in black, 3-ply mohair; a knit vest in black cashmere; a classic button-up shirt in white oxford; a necktie in black silk faille; and penny loafers in black patent leather.
In A Different Man, Stan plays an aspiring actor with neurofibromatosis who has facial reconstructive surgery that dramatically alters his appearance. In The Apprentice, Stan plays former President Donald Trump in a film that follows his rise to power, focusing on his mentor-mentee relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn, portrayed by Jeremy Strong from Succession. Stan received critical acclaim for his performances in both films, and is now a likely contender for the upcoming awards season.
At the CFDAs, Stan told L’OFFICIEL about his look for the night, his connection to Thom Browne, and how clothing and costumes impact his performances. Read on for the interview.
Note: For the accompanying photoshoot click here: Session #140 – Jim Goldberg
Beloved for Captain America, I, Tonya, and his recent Emmy-nominated role in Pam & Tommy, Stan reflects on a career shaped by diverse characters. Now, with A Different Man and The Apprentice, he’s exploring deep questions about identity, ambition, and the complexities of portraying one of America’s most influential (and controversial) men, Donald Trump.
The first time Sebastian Stan tried acting, he hated it. At 9 or 10 years old, he played a Romanian orphan in an Austrian film called 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994). Between the waiting around, night shoots, and general pressure-cooker energy, the whole experience had been pretty anxiety-inducing. “I think the idea of a set was just really terrifying,” he recalls. The 42-year-old mainstay admits to being a Leo, but a rather reluctant one, he says, not that extroverted or hypersocial. “I know my mom always thought I was creative simply because I would impersonate the people in our family, or birds or whatever I would see around me.” Nowadays, when he does speak, it’s with the compelling ease of someone who’s spent equal time commanding impressive rooms and in their own head trying to crack the great questions of the world – sounding off passionately about the perils of social media (“there’s so much noise in today’s world”) or the last incredible film he watched (Sing Sing and it was “pure heart”).
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Sebastian was on Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz this week. Below is the video and Screen Captures + the audio players.
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz
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.
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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.
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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.
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