{"id":127057,"date":"2024-09-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/sebastian-stans-talks-the-apprentice-a-different-man-and-more-with-variety\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:00:00","slug":"sebastian-stans-talks-the-apprentice-a-different-man-and-more-with-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/sebastian-stans-talks-the-apprentice-a-different-man-and-more-with-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Stans talks The Apprentice, A Different Man, and more with Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a new cover story from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/sebastian-stan-donald-trump-the-apprentice-weight-gain-1236148614\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/sebastian-stan-donald-trump-the-apprentice-weight-gain-1236148614\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>VARIETY<\/em><\/a>, actor <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/sebastian-stan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sebastian Stan<\/a> speaks with Chief Correspondent <strong>Daniel D&#8217;Addario<\/strong> about portraying <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/the-apprentice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Apprentice<\/em><\/a>. Stan also discusses the film\u2019s divisiveness in Hollywood, <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/a-different-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Different Man<\/em><\/a>, his time on <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/gossip-girl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gossip Girl<\/em><\/a>, Marvel\u2019s contributions to Hollywood, and more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1499\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-3-1160x1499.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-3-1160x1499.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-3-800x1034.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-3-1188x1536.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-3-860x1112.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Heather Hazzan for Variety<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Stan on preparing to play Trump:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had 130 videos on his physicality on my phone. And 562 videos that I had pulled with pictures from different time periods\u2014from the \u201970s all the way to today\u2014so I could pull out his speech patterns and try to improvise like him. [Director Ali Abbasi] could come in on the second take and say, \u2018Why don\u2019t you talk a little bit about the taxes and how you don\u2019t want to pay?\u2019 So I had to know what charities they were going to in 1983. Every night I would go home and try not only to prepare for the day that was coming, but also to prepare for where Ali was going to take this\u2026I started to realize that I needed to start speaking with my lips in a different way. A lot of that came from the consonants. If I\u2019m talking, I\u2019m moving forward. The consonants naturally forced your lips forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1450\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104235 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-1160x1450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-1160x1450.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-860x1075.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1450\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-1160x1450.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-1160x1450.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1-860x1075.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Heather Hazzan for Variety<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>On The Apprentice&#8217;s divisiveness in Hollywood:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Apprentice\u201d didn\u2019t sell for months after Cannes partly because Trump\u2019s legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter attempting to block the film\u2019s release in the U.S. while the fest was still ongoing. Entertainment corporations from Netflix to Disney would be severely inconvenienced if the next president came into office with a grudge against them. The film was finally sold to Briarcliff Entertainment, a distributor so small that the production has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money so that it will be able to stay in theaters. Stan chalks up the film\u2019s divisiveness to a siloed online environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything with this film has been one day at a time. There are a lot of people who love reading the [film\u2019s] Wikipedia page and throwing out their opinions. But they don\u2019t actually know what they\u2019re talking about. That\u2019s a popular sport now online, apparently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unprompted, Stan brings up the idea that Trump is so widely known that some might think a biographical film about him serves no purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen someone says, \u2018Why do we need this movie? We know all this,\u2019 I\u2019ll say, \u2018Maybe you do, but you haven\u2019t experienced it. The experience of those two hours is visceral. It\u2019s something you can hopefully feel\u2014if you still have feelings.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1450\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104236 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1160x1450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1160x1450.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-860x1075.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1450\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1160x1450.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-1160x1450.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-860x1075.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Heather Hazzan for Variety<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>On walking around New York City with the prosthetics for A Different Man:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cA Different Man,\u201d Stan plays a man afflicted with a disfiguring tumor disorder, which required his face to be hidden behind extensive prosthetics. The days were particularly long because prosthetics artist Michael Marino was only able to apply Stan\u2019s makeup in the early morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I wasn\u2019t shooting until 11 a.m., I would go at like 5 in the morning to his studio, or his apartment,\u201d Stan recalls. The hidden advantage was that Stan had hours to kill while made up like his character, the kind of person the world looks past. \u201cI wanted to walk around the city and see what happened. On Broadway, one of the busiest streets in New York, no one\u2019s looking at me. It\u2019s as if I\u2019m not even there.\u201d The other reaction was worse: \u201cSomebody would immediately stop and very blatantly hit their friend, point, take a picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On his Gossip Girl days:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first time I was in serious love with somebody,\u201d he says. (He dated the series\u2019 star, Leighton Meester, from 2008 to 2010.) \u201cWalking around the city, seeing these same buildings and streets\u2014life seemed simpler.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1450\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104234 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-1160x1450.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-1160x1450.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-860x1075.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1160\" height=\"1450\" src=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-1160x1450.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian Stan for Variety\" class=\"wp-image-104234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-1160x1450.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2-860x1075.jpg 860w, https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sebastian-stan-watermarked-variety-09232024-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Heather Hazzan for Variety<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>On Marvel\u2019s contributions to Hollywood:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become really convenient to pick on [Marvel films]. And that\u2019s fine. Everyone\u2019s got an opinion. But they\u2019re a big part of what contributes to this business and allows us to have smaller movies as well. This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that\u2019s Hollywood. It feeds in so many more ways than people acknowledge. Sometimes I get protective of it because the intention is really fucking good. It\u2019s just fucking hard to make a good movie over and over again\u2026In the last couple of years. I\u2019ve gotten much more aggressive about pursuing things that I want, and I\u2019m constantly looking for different ways of challenging myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Sebastian Stan <em>Variety<\/em> interview <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/sebastian-stan-donald-trump-the-apprentice-weight-gain-1236148614\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/sebastian-stan-donald-trump-the-apprentice-weight-gain-1236148614\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>SL RECOMMENDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em><strong>Like most websites, Socialite Life uses affiliate links where available, which means we earn a little commission if you click through and buy something. 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