Sebastian Stan may have one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood, but he’s not immune to a little constructive criticism from his mom!
The A different man star, 42, opened up about some advice his mother Georgeta Orlovschi gave him in a conversation with him Sing Sing star Colman Domingo, for Podcast A24the last episode aired on Wednesday, September 25.
“I love [my mom]. But this is what she told me recently when she came to visit me and was just about to leave. I said, ‘Oh, yes, everything is great. Thank you very much.’ And she says, ‘I have to tell you something, but don’t get upset,'” Stan recalled.
Admitting that he was “already in an anxious place” at the time, lightning bolts* the actor continued, “And she’s like, ‘I know you’re an actor and all, but maybe you can express yourself a little bit less because… I can see these lines.’ ”
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He went on to tell Domingo, 54, that Orlovschi urged her son to “‘get some moisturizer.’ ”
“She said, ‘Be a little less intense with your face.’ I said, “Mom!” Stan said.
The conversation occurred while Domingo was praising Stan’s performance in the A different man. Stan plays Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes facial reconstruction surgery and subsequently becomes obsessed with Oswald (Adam Pearson), another man with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
“… You have that thing. Your face changes a lot,” Domingo said. “And I’m going to say this because I know mine does the same thing, you can look absolutely hot, leading man, gorgeous in one shot and absolutely freaking hideous in the next.”
“It’s a gift, man,” the Oscar nominee continued. “I think something changes inside of you. There’s something that, you bring out the beast. The beast, the disgusting nature of humanity. And you see it all over your face.”
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Sebastian Stan in A different man (2024).
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In a recent interview with PEOPLE around A different manStan said Pearson’s life experience as a person living with neurofibromatosis proved “incredible” in the development of his character Edward.
Pearson, who also previously appeared in director Aaron Schimberg’s 2019 film Chained for lifetold PEOPLE that he and Stan “had really honest, candid conversations” about their upbringing and life experiences over Zoom before the A24 drama began production in 2022.
“Disfigurement and disability are unique in the sense that you don’t get them until you get them. So I have to find parallels so that I can get [someone’s] he taps into this and sort of processes it differently,” said the British actor, 39. “And I always say that the two ways to lose your social anonymity in society in 2024 is to either have some kind of discrepancy or disability or become a celebrity.”
“And so until [Stan] maybe he doesn’t know the level of invasiveness, I feel with pointing and staring and camera phones, he absolutely gets it from a different angle,” Pearson added.
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