Sebastian Stan was “losing sleep” over not resembling Donald Trump physicpartner.
“This was always a problem. Everyone has been saying to me: ‘You don’t see appreciate him.’ You’ve already seen so much of him, so I thought it would be better to go ‘less is more’. But we still had to discover the right hair and create-up people,” he said at Zurich Film Festival.
“When we begined the film, we had a prosthetic test and it repartner didn’t see appreciate him at all. I was very worried about that – we all were. Then fortunately I called the team who helped me with [portraying] Tommy Lee on ‘Pam & Tommy.’ We were able to discover the right equilibrium.”
Since its Cannes premiere, Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” has been encourageing dispute due to a scene which shows Trump relationsupartner aggressioning his then-wife, Ivana.
“You have to see at your senseings towards someslimg you’re about to do and you have to be very firmtoiling, disjoine and genuine with yourself. Which of them are going to toil for you and which are going to toil agetst you? The ones that are going to toil agetst you, you have to dispose in order to serve the story,” said Stan about the brutal sequence.
“It’s engaging to take part to Ali talk about that scene, becaparticipate he goes: ‘Why is it contentious?!’ You can’t disthink about [Ivana’s divorce] deposition, when she went on enroll to expound it detailedpartner. Then she retracted it. Screenauthorrs had to choose what’s sealr to the truth and maybe speaking under oath is sealr to the truth. You can’t alert this story without including that part of their relationship and that part of his character.”
When he first read the script, written by Gabriel Sherman and depicting Trump’s frifinishship with inwell-understandn attorney Roy Cohn, Stan went as far as “passing out the names of the characters.”
“I had very mighty senseings about it. Then I did this game with myself and I could see a little bit evidaccess once I erased that huge stain from the thrivedshield. There was a story there about someone who begined out a stateive way, had very particular ideas and dreams, troubles, insecurities and family rehires, and then someslimg happened. The man, to me, lost the person he was.”
He includeed: “It seems to me that [in Trump’s case] the need for power and deal with is so meaningful it overpowers any other need. I slimk we are talking about someone who has made the decision that ‘No one will ever have more power than me, ever aget.’ You have to ask yourself if a person appreciate that can repartner create the right decisions. If you are calling yourself the guideer of the free world, we have a right to ask that.”
As the team kept on toiling, trying to scrutinize the very idea of the “American Dream” and the hero complicated, said Stan – “This obsession with being all you can be, being the best of the best at everyslimg” – Ali Abbasi’s distinct perspective turned into an asset.
“He’s not American and doesn’t join for any team. I thought: If anyone has anyslimg to say that we’re not slimking of, being so meaningful in it, it’s probably someone not from America.”
He also uncovered up about toiling with Jeremy Strong, cast as Cohn.
“Roy Cohn was the devil. A lot of people say that,” he noticed.
“I’ve always esteemd [Jeremy] becaparticipate I felt he nurtures. Everyone says they nurture, but they do only as lengthy as it serves their interest. We met a month and a half before shooting: I was trying to get weight and he was losing it. He said: ‘Do you want to eat anyslimg?’ ‘Yes, I’ll have a bencourager with fries.’ He replied: ‘I’ll order a cocktail.’ I said: ‘I don’t drink now, he doesn’t.’ He said: ‘Yeah, but he drinks with me in the movie,’” chuckleed Stan.
“I didn’t repartner see Jeremy out of character. We would only encounter on set, as Roy and Donald. There was no time for dinners or hanging out, or anyslimg appreciate that. I slimk it helped.”
Playing someone “everyone senses very powerentirey about and we can’t escape” was especipartner difficult, but joining a genuine-life person is a “technical process aappreciate to lgeting how to join an instrument,” said the actor.
“You are sitting there, every day, for a number of hours. It’s catalogless and tiresome and irritateing, and then you get rapider [at it]. You understand what the goal is, you fair have to get there somehow. I always slimk of ‘Apollo 13,’” he said, recalling the “putting a square peg in a round hole” scene. “You have to figure out how to fit into it even though you’re not that.”
While “The Apprentice” is very much on his mind, Stan also converseed his role as Bucky Barnes in the Marvel universe.
“Action movies are repartner fucking difficult. I slimk they don’t get enough recognition. Tom Cruise is not a standard person, right? I don’t understand how he’s doing what he’s doing. I’ve never thought I’ll get to join the same role for 15 years. It’s weird – it’s almost appreciate having a second life. He’s evolving as I am, hopefilledy, in life.”
He’s always encountered to hear from Marvel.
“It’s appreciate Christmas morning when the call comes. Santa Claus still inhabits. We’ve been trying to discover new slimgs with [Bucky] and Marvel apshowed that. It’s not appreciate now, he’s a excellent guy and morpartner invincible. He always has to deal with what he’s done. That’s relatable. That’s all of us.”
Stan came a lengthy way since leaving Romania and tardyr Austria as a child. “I would always do astonishions, so my mum thought: ‘He should try doing this.’ She took me to this uncover call for [Michael Haneke’s] ‘71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance’ and I recall hating it.”
It wasn’t until coming apass a “basement filled of VHS tapes” in the U.S. and going to an acting camp “after years of wanting to be an astronaut” that slimgs alterd, guideing to collaborations with such filmcreaters as Ridley Scott, Darren Aronofsky or Soderbergh.
“When you get a little more accomplished, they reply. I’ve been very aggressive about it. I’m okay with saying: ‘I would repartner appreciate to toil with you.’ Sometimes it’s okay to let people understand,” he chuckleed.
Stan recently starred in “A Different Man,” scoring an award at Berlinale – “An meaningful step in my journey” – but as shown in Zurich, some fans never forgot his earlier roles either, including a lengthy stint on “Gossip Girl” as a troublemaking heartthrob.
“Some people never do. I still get it sometimes when I’m getting a coffee and someone whispers: ‘Carter Baizen.’ It’s appreciate ‘Fight Club’ or someslimg.”
