Mar
11

Press: Sebastian Stan on his drastic Pam & Tommy weight loss: ‘People were telling me I was crazy’

EW.com — With all the talk surrounding Lily James’ uncanny resemblance to Pamela Anderson on Pam & Tommy — and the daily four-hour process it took for the English actress to become the blond bombshell — not enough attention has been paid to Sebastian Stan’s own intense physical transformation to play her then-husband Tommy Lee. But ever since Stan debuted on Hulu’s limited series in the premiere in nothing but a tiny thong, tatted and pierced up like the infamous Mötley Crüe drummer, it’s been clear that he’s got his own story to tell about what it took to become one-half of the ’90s tabloid royal couple.

The actor has spent years bulking up to play comic book antihero Bucky Barnes a.k.a. The Winter Soldier in many big Marvel Universe movies, but he says that losing the drastic amount of weight to play the skinny, lanky Lee was actually the most difficult physical process he’s ever experienced in his career. “I was trying to lose weight and I still felt I didn’t lose enough weight,” Stan tells EW ahead of the series finale. “And people were telling me I was crazy and going, ‘You have body dysmorphia now’ — which I always did anyway.”

Stan spent months where he stopped working out entirely to lose as much weight as possible, and then he went even further than that. “I was just running and trying to get 20,000 steps a day, and then I was fasting for 16 to 18 hours a day,” he says. “And that definitely does something, especially if you’re [driving] in traffic. But I’m proud of the whole thing.” Despite the brutal process of fasting and changing up his exercise routine to lose weight rather than build muscle, he wasn’t too worried about the negative effects on his body.

“Anybody that even has a healthy physique to some extent has body dysmorphia,” he says. “Because once you’re going into a peak, the best look possible, which by the way, I don’t care what they say, unless there’s like, magic formulas out there — which there are but some of us are not in that pocket — your body can only be at peak 100 percent for like maybe a week or something. At least, how I’ve experienced it; and I mean diet and exercise and tanning and water and lighting and everything. And then you spend the rest of the time going, ‘I’m not what I used to be.’ But it’s just all in the head.”

It took a long time for Stan to feel comfortable taking on the role of Lee, purely because of the physical aspect. “When [director] Craig Gillespie called me and said he wanted me to play this part, I thought it was a joke,” he says with a big laugh. “I don’t think I felt good about it … I don’t think I felt like I could do this until the camera test, the first time we applied the tattoos and the piercings and the costume and the hair was dyed and the whole thing.”

When Stan saw himself as Lee, alongside James as Anderson, that’s when he finally felt like he maybe could do this part justice. But that didn’t mean he stopped doubting himself throughout all of filming. “It was always difficult because I just wasn’t the same frame as him,” he says. “I had to lose so much weight, and the drums were a real pressure for me; I’d never played any instrument before and I had to learn. The whole thing felt like this just ginormous mountain to climb and there was always a little bit of an unsettling feeling about it. But I thrive well in discomfort, especially at work. It pushes you and as long as you can manage and handle it well, you can grow from it.”

 

By the end of production, Stan started noticing how his new/temporary rockstar look was impacting his daily life — and he definitely didn’t hate it. “People serve you coffee differently when you have tattoos, I’ve got to tell you,” he says with another laugh. “I’ve always debated a tattoo and I’ve never done it. I never got one so the little boy in me, with the tattoos, was definitely having a field day, enjoying it.”

That’s why, despite his initial hesitation and lingering feelings of discomfort, he doesn’t regret taking on a role that required him to change so much about himself. “The physical transformation is a very important part to the acting process, and whether it’s him or a fictional character, I look for those things because I get tired of myself,” Stan admits. “I do! I don’t want to do the same thing over and over again. I know my Sebastian-isms and the things that I do so I like to be challenged. And the physical aspect of it, whether it’s losing weight or gaining weight or changing hair color, it shifts perspective.”
He just wishes he had more time to prepare, lose more weight, and learn how to inhabit the character even more than how it turned out on the series. “The biggest obstacle that we had, honestly, was that we shot this so quickly,” he says. “The turnaround times were brutal and when you have to consistently maintain a certain kind of energy … in a perfect world, we would have had more time.”

All eight episodes of Pam & Tommy are now streaming on Hulu.

Mar
11

Photos: Hulu’s ‘Pam & Tommy’ Finale Premiere in Los Angeles

I’ve added over 130+ high quality photos of Sebastian taken at the Finale Premiere for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy event which was held on March 8th.


Big thank you to my good friend Alikat at Elizabeth-Olsen.com for contributing!

Mar
10

Photos: ‘Pam & Tommy’ Episodic Stills and Behind The Scenes

I’ve added over 70+ high quality episodic stills of Sebastian as Tommy Lee from the Hulu series ‘Pam & Tommy’ into the gallery along with a variety of additional behind the scenes photos taken while filming.


A big thank you to MissLilyJames.com for contributing!

Mar
09

Audio/Interview: Sebastian Reminisces About His Time on Gossip Girl on Jessica Szohr’s Podcast ‘XOXO’

The newest episode of XOXO with Jessica Szhor was released today with the guest being none other than Sebastian! During the nearly hour long podcast Sebastian and Jessica reminisce about their days on ‘Gossip Girl’, New York City, and about the incredible evolution of his career since he was a guest star/recurring character on the show.

You can check out the interview wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts (Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio etc) — or simply hit the play button on the player below via Spotify!

Mar
07

Photos: 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards + IMDb Portraits

On March 6th, Sebastian and his ‘Fresh’ co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones attended the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards together where they later went on to present during the live show.


In addition, Sebastian and Daisy also stopped by the The IMDb Portrait Studio during the event to pose for some fabulous new portraits together.

You can find high quality photos from both the event and portraits in the gallery.

Mar
07

Photos: ‘Fresh’ Posters and Stills

You can now find high quality stills and posters of Sebastian as Steve from the film ‘Fresh’ in the gallery which has now been released on Hulu.

Mar
06

Photos: Sebastian Attends ‘Fresh’ Premiere and Mixer

In case you missed it, Sebastian attended a new press event in celebration of the premiere of his latest film ‘Fresh’ which is both part romantic comedy and part horror/thriller. There has been an endless stream of love and praise for Sebastian’s role in this film from critics and fans alike since it released. You can check out over 180 high quality photos of him and his co-star Daisy-Edgar Jones in the gallery now.

Be sure to check out ‘Fresh’ which is available to stream on HULU now!

Shoutout to my good friend Alikat of Elizabeth-Olsen.com for donating these beauties!

Mar
03

Video: ‘Fresh’ trailer & two new film clips

The Trailer for ‘Fresh’ was released via Hulu along with two new film clips.



Jan
19

Press: ‘Pam & Tommy’ Stars Sebastian Stan, Lily James on Justice for Pamela Anderson, Internet Infamy and That Wild Talking Penis

Variety.com –Lily James and Sebastian Stan spent months working together on the set of Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy.” Yet when they recently reunited for a photo session it was a bit jarring to both actors.

“I barely met Sebastian out of Tommy Lee, and he barely met me out of my Pamela Anderson,” James says. “It was really surreal to do even the Variety shoot. We were like, ‘Oh, hey, so that’s what you look like!’”

That’s a testament to the amount of work James and Stan put into studying and emulating the real-life characteristics of Anderson and Lee — and just how well the production’s hair, makeup and wardrobe crews perfected their physical transformation. The look is so spot-on that when Hulu released the first photos of the “Pam & Tommy” stars in May, it quickly went viral on social media. “I was blown away,” Stan says. “The hair and makeup team deserve all the accolades that they can get.”

Of course, there’s a bit of irony to “Pam & Tommy” breaking the internet. In the series, which premieres Feb. 2, James and Stan play the “Baywatch” star and Mötley Crüe drummer as the couple meet, fall in love and then make a private recording that is ultimately stolen — becoming the first infamous viral video of a burgeoning online age.

The tape was shared and played at parties like it was contraband. Dubbed VHS copies spread across the world, as it was sold and traded on the then-brand-new World Wide Web. It later inspired a whole cottage industry of celebrity sex tapes, most of which were purposely leaked — unlike this one.

“I remember hearing about it as if it was like a Yeti,” says “Pam & Tommy” executive producer D.V. DeVincentis. “Like, you couldn’t necessarily assume it was true. It definitely had this sort of aura of a rumor, and something apocryphal. And then finally somebody put it in front of me and I saw it.”

And yet, there remain many misconceptions about what really happened, and who was really to blame. Over time, the actual story of the tape’s theft and how it victimized both Anderson and Lee — but at very different levels — has been lost to the memory of late-night punchlines and sophomoric snickering.

For the stars, producers and directors of “Pam & Tommy,” there was a sense that they were on a mission to correct that record — and in particular, perhaps find a little recompense for Anderson. “Pam & Tommy” is really three stories in one: a heist thriller retracing how the tape fell into the hands of a disgruntled construction worker; an unconventional love story about two celebrities whose relationship became more public than they ever could have imagined; and a societal critique on how the media, the justice system and the public all failed Pamela Anderson.

“It’s an important story, I think, from being able to understand what the impact of that media tornado really was,” says Stan. “For them as a couple but particularly for her as a woman. I can’t imagine what having a private home video stolen from you — how that wouldn’t impact a newlywed couple.”

“Pam & Tommy” is adapted from a 2014 Rolling Stone article by Amanda Chicago Lewis that finally told the true, although somewhat unbelievable, story of how the tape went public. Lewis managed to locate and extensively interview the man who pilfered the tape, Rand Gauthier — played in the series by Seth Rogen (who also executive produces) — and he revealed the implausible tale.

Gauthier, whose father memorably played Robin Hood in “When Things Were Rotten,” was an electrician working inside Lee’s Malibu estate until the rock star fired him and his team without pay. According to the article, when Gauthier returned to pick up his tools, Lee waved a shotgun in his face and refused to let him retrieve those items. That’s when the handyman, bent on revenge, hatched a preposterous scheme: He’d sneak onto the estate by wearing a fur rug over his back to make it look like the couple’s dog, then steal a safe hidden in their garage and drive it away in a rented U-Haul.

Somehow, the plan worked. Gauthier took the safe up into the mountains and found expensive watches, jewelry and guns — plus a mysterious Hi8 videocassette. After watching the tape, Gauthier, who had dabbled in adult films, figured he’d profit off his findings. He partnered with porn-producer pal Milton “Uncle Miltie” Ingley (played by Nick Offerman in “Pam & Tommy”) to find a buyer. Continue reading

Jan
13

News: Searchlight Pictures Picks Up Thriller ‘Fresh’ Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones & Sebastian Stan Ahead Of Sundance Premiere

Deadline.com — Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Legendary Entertainment’s thriller Fresh, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy), ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival slated for next week. The first feature from director Mimi Cave will stream exclusively across Disney’s platforms, debuting on Hulu in the U.S. on March 4, with a Latin American premiere on Star+ and a Disney+ unveiling in all other territories to take later this spring.

Fresh follows Noa (Edgar-Jones), who meets the alluring Steve (Stan) at a grocery store and—given her frustration with dating apps—takes a chance and gives him her number. After their first date, Noa is smitten and accepts Steve’s invitation to a romantic weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites.

Read more about the pick up @ Deadline.com