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Sebastian Stan is pushing back at a journalist’s comment about his new movie.
On Friday (February 16), the 41-year-old actor attended a press conference at the 2024 Berlinale International Film Festival alongside his co-stars Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson to promote their new movie A Different Man.
In the thriller, Sebastian plays Edward, an aspiring actor with facial disfigurement and undergoes reconstructive surgery to start a new life, but becomes obsessed with an actor with a facial disfigurement (Pearson) who is portraying him in a play based on his former life.
For the first half of the movie, Sebastian wears heavy makeup and prosthetics to portray the character with a facial disfigurement.
At the press conference, a journalist – who is not a native English speaker – asked Sebastian, “What do you think happens after the transformation from this so-called beast, as they call him, to this perfect man?”
Keep reading to find out more… “I have to call you out a little bit on the choice of words there, because I think part of why the film is important is because we often don’t have the right vocabulary,” Sebastian responded, via Variety.
“I think it’s a little bit more complex than that, and obviously there are language barriers, but you know, ‘beast’ isn’t the word,” Sebastian continued. “And I think, ultimately, it’s just interesting to hear this word because I think that’s one of the things the film is saying — we have these preconceived ideas and we’re not really educated on how to understand this experience in particular.”
“That’s one of the things I love about the movie,” he added. “He’s offering you a way to look at it, and hopefully, if you can have the same objective point of view while you’re experiencing
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