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Sebastian Stan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
543 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Lack of acceptance for any criticism or any wrongdoing or anything whatsoever. So it's eerily familiar. It's predictable. It's also, I may say, tragic because I guess for me...

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Lack of acceptance for any criticism or any wrongdoing or anything whatsoever. So it's eerily familiar. It's predictable. It's also, I may say, tragic because I guess for me...

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Lack of acceptance for any criticism or any wrongdoing or anything whatsoever. So it's eerily familiar. It's predictable. It's also, I may say, tragic because I guess for me...

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

I also feel like I saw a version of this overweight kid that was paranoid and insecure and desperate for attention that was made to pay a big price at daddy's big betrayal, sending him off to military school where he had to kind of... you know, whatever happened there that dehumanized him further and the revenge that he's been enacting out, you know.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

I also feel like I saw a version of this overweight kid that was paranoid and insecure and desperate for attention that was made to pay a big price at daddy's big betrayal, sending him off to military school where he had to kind of... you know, whatever happened there that dehumanized him further and the revenge that he's been enacting out, you know.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

I also feel like I saw a version of this overweight kid that was paranoid and insecure and desperate for attention that was made to pay a big price at daddy's big betrayal, sending him off to military school where he had to kind of... you know, whatever happened there that dehumanized him further and the revenge that he's been enacting out, you know.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

And at the same time, it's hard not to sort of find some of it upsetting as well because I do feel so much of it is rage and anger that's been suppressed and undealt with that we're all having to kind of just, you know, deal with and pay a price for.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

And at the same time, it's hard not to sort of find some of it upsetting as well because I do feel so much of it is rage and anger that's been suppressed and undealt with that we're all having to kind of just, you know, deal with and pay a price for.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

And at the same time, it's hard not to sort of find some of it upsetting as well because I do feel so much of it is rage and anger that's been suppressed and undealt with that we're all having to kind of just, you know, deal with and pay a price for.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Well, I think as an actor, you have to kind of go through a process where you look at what are the things here that I feel that are useful for me to do this in the right way that it's asking of me. And what are the things that I feel that are going to work against me? And then you have to sort of become an investigator. And you have to, in a way, be a bodyguard to the character you're playing.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Well, I think as an actor, you have to kind of go through a process where you look at what are the things here that I feel that are useful for me to do this in the right way that it's asking of me. And what are the things that I feel that are going to work against me? And then you have to sort of become an investigator. And you have to, in a way, be a bodyguard to the character you're playing.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Well, I think as an actor, you have to kind of go through a process where you look at what are the things here that I feel that are useful for me to do this in the right way that it's asking of me. And what are the things that I feel that are going to work against me? And then you have to sort of become an investigator. And you have to, in a way, be a bodyguard to the character you're playing.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

And I've wrestled with a degree of powerlessness as a child that I felt growing up as a result of A lot of change that happened very quickly in formative years where I didn't feel safe and changing countries and changing schools and changing homes and caretakers coming and going and so on. And that's affected my life in a certain way.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

And I've wrestled with a degree of powerlessness as a child that I felt growing up as a result of A lot of change that happened very quickly in formative years where I didn't feel safe and changing countries and changing schools and changing homes and caretakers coming and going and so on. And that's affected my life in a certain way.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

And I've wrestled with a degree of powerlessness as a child that I felt growing up as a result of A lot of change that happened very quickly in formative years where I didn't feel safe and changing countries and changing schools and changing homes and caretakers coming and going and so on. And that's affected my life in a certain way.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

But I would argue nowhere near the degree of powerlessness that I feel today. He must have gone through in order to create such an ulterior ego to the extent that he has because that's what I really see it's about with him. It's always power and mistrust and paranoia and everything is transactional. That's how he operates.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

But I would argue nowhere near the degree of powerlessness that I feel today. He must have gone through in order to create such an ulterior ego to the extent that he has because that's what I really see it's about with him. It's always power and mistrust and paranoia and everything is transactional. That's how he operates.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

But I would argue nowhere near the degree of powerlessness that I feel today. He must have gone through in order to create such an ulterior ego to the extent that he has because that's what I really see it's about with him. It's always power and mistrust and paranoia and everything is transactional. That's how he operates.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Well, when the letter came in, it was about an hour after the movie had finished premiering at Cannes. And we were in such a place of exhilaration to have even gotten to Cannes and actually finally premiere the movie to... What many who have witnessed standing ovations at Cannes told me was a really genuine seven to eight minute standing ovation.

Fresh Air
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win

Well, when the letter came in, it was about an hour after the movie had finished premiering at Cannes. And we were in such a place of exhilaration to have even gotten to Cannes and actually finally premiere the movie to... What many who have witnessed standing ovations at Cannes told me was a really genuine seven to eight minute standing ovation.