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The 2025 The Hollywood Reporter (THR) Actors Roundtable is below. I’ve also added 450+ screen captures to the gallery along with the photoshoot. To watch click below and to read click here.
The Hollywood Reporter – Adrien Brody, Sebastian Stan and Peter Sarsgaard bond over the pressures of delivering a standout performance: “I had a panic attack every night.”
Photoshoot: #151 –Session #151 – Beau Grealy
Former James Bond Daniel Craig, The Pianist Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Euphoria Emmy winner Colman Domingo, Marvel superhero turned Emmy nominee Sebastian Stan, consummate character actor Peter Sarsgaard and Oscar-nominated heartthrob Paul Mescal range in age from 28 (Mescal) to 56 (Craig); hail from around the world (America, England, Ireland and Romania); and forged very different paths to stardom. But they all share one thing in common: Each gave a standout performance in a 2024 film — or, in Stan’s case, two — that led to them congregating in mid-November at Soho House West Hollywood for THR‘s annual Actor Roundtable.
Their characters are unforgettable: a Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and comes to America (Brody in The Brutalist); a gay American addict in 1950s Mexico (Craig in Queer); an incarceree who finds purpose in art (Domingo in Sing Sing); an angry young man set on destroying the city that betrayed him (Mescal in Gladiator II); a TV exec who oversees live coverage of a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics (Sarsgaard in September 5); a disfigured actor who undergoes facial reconstructive surgery (Stan in A Different Man); and a striving young Donald Trump (Stan in The Apprentice). So, too, was their conversation.
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Julia Louis Dreyfus (article linked above) and included new production stills in the article. I’ve now added the 3 new stills UHQ/untagged in the gallery. Thanks to Sandra for the assistance. Enjoy.
Film Projects > Thunderbolts (2024) > Production Stills
“Art is supposed to highlight the things that we can’t always communicate. It’s supposed to go deeper on an instinctive level. For us to understand the values that we’re upholding—the virtues, morality, grace, depth, empathy… we have to know what the opposites are. Part of what The Apprentice is about is that a lot of what we feel about people is our own projection of that. When we’re handed circumstances to view a person differently, you will see the thing that you’re supposed to see.”
-Sebastian Stan, episode 397 of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Actor Sebastian Stan has built a career out of shapeshifting.
This week, he joins us to discuss the process of transforming into Donald J. Trump in The Apprentice (8:27), his personal relationship to the American dream (15:35), and the extensive research that went into recreating 1970s-1980s New York City in the film (17:27). Then, we unpack Sebastian’s Romanian upbringing (29:00), the gift of his unconventional, nomadic childhood (34:40), and what the film represents in this post-Election moment (38:30).
On the back-half, we talk about the impact of the late director Jonathan Demme (50:45), Stan’s radical and stunning work in A Different Man (55:08), what both of his new films reveal about reality (59:14), and what the silencing of The Apprentice—and his Actors on Actors shutout—reveals about the entertainment industry (1:00:00). To close, a reflection about control and how Sebastian embraces everyday life (1:17:55).
Show-notes:
Watch Sebastian’s latest performances in The Apprentice and A Different Man.
See selections of his previous work: Pam & Tommy, Fresh, I, Tonya, Logan Lucky, The Martian, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Rachel Getting Married.
The 2025 LA Times Actors Roundtable is below. I’ve also added 300+ screen captures to the gallery.
I’ve added 25 UHQ/untagged of Sebastian at the CAA ‘A Different Man’ LA Screening on December 8th and the Talk Easy Podcast (which Sebastian is on tomorrow) photoshoot to the gallery. Thank you to Sandra for the assistance.
Sebastian attended Los Angeles Premiere Of A24’s “Babygirl” – After Party on Wednesday night. I’ve added 4 UHQ/untagged photos to the gallery. Enjoy.
Screen Captures > Web Videos > Photoshoot: LA Magazine [Behind the Scenes #2] (2024)
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > Governors Awards
Screen Captures > Web Videos > 2024 > LA Times 2025 Roundtable Preview
I’ve added 19 UHQ/untagged of Sebastian at the SCAD film festival portrait studio, Paris Match, and the LA times roundtable photoshoot to the gallery.
