Sebastian Stan & Cast of 'A Different Man' On How Film Is So Different & Important | Sundance 2024 - video Dailymotion

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The cast of 'A Different Man,' Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, and Adam Pearson, along with Director Aaron Schimberg discuss the film about an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. Pearson, who has neurofibromatosis, discusses how the role was far removed for the typical roles he and other actors with disabilities usually get.

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00:00Does anyone have any classic movies that they have pretended to have seen?

00:07I'm willing to.

00:10I haven't seen Winter Soldier.

00:14Listen, Eric. It's fine.

00:20I loved working with Adam on my last film, and I thought he was amazing in that film,

00:25but I think people thought that he was playing a version of himself.

00:31He plays a kind of shy character, which is not at all like Adam.

00:38So I felt maybe his performance was underrated in a way,

00:41because they didn't see that it was actually a very nuanced performance.

00:44So I had this idea to write a role that was the opposite end of the spectrum,

00:51this very gregarious character, and show this other side of Adam.

00:58So that was an early inspiration for the film.

01:02Did you feel the same way, like, oh, I want to show people that that was actually not like me?

01:08Well, I think the end game for any actor is to be able to show as much range as they can.

01:16And of course, with any role, you sort of like tap into the bits of the character that you identify with,

01:22and exaggerate those.

01:24But it's also, like, far removed from other stereotypes,

01:28and other kinds of roles that actors like myself and other disabled actors get offered.

01:34Something that was out there, gregarious, successful.

01:37And what I liked about the character and the way it came across on paper

01:42is that the disability is, like, rarely mentioned, if at all.

01:47Sebastian, how did this come to you?

01:50Did you guys know each other? How did that?

01:54You know, my agent just loved Chain for Life and sent me the script and the movie

01:59and said, you really should look at this filmmaker and the script that it was, you know.

02:06And then I just immediately, when I saw his film and then I read it,

02:09I recognized how different it was, obviously, for many, many reasons,

02:15but also how important and how, you know, something like this doesn't usually,

02:20it just doesn't get made, it doesn't, and it certainly doesn't come to me, you know.

02:24And so then it was, I felt more really in pursuit of him and Vanessa,

02:29his wife, producing partner, you know, and really trying to kind of make sure

02:33I am understanding what he's after, you know.

02:35What felt most different for you in production of this film

02:39in making it on set versus stuff you'd done before?

02:44I mean, everything, everything about it.

02:48I mean, we were, you know, like, again, like, very low budgeted movie

02:53that we were shooting in New York City for like, I get the days, 22 days?

02:5722 days.

02:5822 days, and it was like COVID, you know, there was a lot of things,

03:03and there was a timing issue, you know, there was a prosthetics piece to it

03:07that I'd never really encountered that was important to find,

03:10and there was not a lot of time, you know, to get these shots.

03:13And he was very specific with how you wanted to make this movie.

03:16And so, you know, we were in this tiny apartment, you know,

03:20with dollies and tracking shots and stuff.

03:23And so everybody on that movie, all the crews had to just be on top of their game.

03:28And also because he's doing one takes, which was incredible because it keeps us like,

03:33you know, all of us like on our toes.

03:35And when it goes, it's amazing.

03:37But all it takes is one little thing to not, it takes one sound person

03:42or just one thing, you know, to kind of screw up the take on film,

03:47which also you don't get a lot of takes.

03:49So like the anxiety level was pretty high.

03:51But when you get it, you know, and when it works,

03:56it's just like the most unbelievable feeling.

03:58You just feel gratified and unified.

04:00I just had to accept the nervousness.

04:03It was my first English speaking movie or outside Norway at all.

04:08And yeah, I didn't know it was like one takes, one shots.

04:14And it was a lot of text.

04:16It was very intimidating.

04:17I said to Aaron early on, you know, I was like, I really want to speak to Adam.

04:22And he was very kind and gracious to be very candid with me about his experience

04:27and growing up and so on.

04:28And I was like, I'm never going to understand how to approach this.

04:32But he brought up this point, which I never would have thought,

04:35which was like, look, you understand what it's like to be a public figure, right?

04:39Like to some extent, like if you recognize your public property.

04:42And that I understand.

04:44And it's not, you know, I've had my little, very different,

04:48but some experience with just the invasion of that.

04:51And the public property idea here was really interesting.

04:55I hadn't thought about that.

04:56Yeah.

04:57Yeah.

04:58Yeah.

04:59Yeah.

05:00Yeah.

05:01Yeah.

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