Sebastian Stan entered the Golden Globes 2025 with two probabilities at successful—nominated for each his portrayal of Donald Trump in The Apprentice and his extra comedic efficiency as Edward, an aspiring actor residing with neurofibromatosis, in A Completely different Man. However within the lead-up to his massive evening, Stan was keen to place his double nominations into perspective, as an alternative specializing in what he may management: a hearty postceremony meal. “You all the time examine folks having burgers or something after these award exhibits,” he advised Self-importance Honest. “I imply, that sounds form of good, to be sincere.”
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A celebratory nosh was well-earned by Stan, who received greatest actor in a musical-or-comedy movie, his first-ever Golden Globe. After thanking A Completely different Man filmmaker Aaron Schimberg and his costar Adam Pearson, who has the genetic situation neurofibromatosis in actual life, Stan advocated for extra inclusive narratives onscreen. “Our ignorance and discomfort round incapacity and disfigurement has to finish now,” he mentioned. “We’ve to normalize it and proceed to reveal ourselves [and our children] to it. Encourage acceptance.”
A Completely different Man languished for 2 years earlier than it debuted on the Sundance Movie Pageant, and the A24 film later landed Stan the Silver Bear for greatest lead efficiency in Berlin. However The Apprentice, directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Self-importance Honest particular correspondent Gabriel Sherman, additionally endured a beleaguered highway to distribution within the weeks earlier than the 2024 presidential election. “Each of those movies began out as main dangers,” Stan advised VF shortly earlier than the Globes. As such, he’s not taking any of the current accolades without any consideration.
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“I really feel very blessed that I’ve good folks round me, buddies who I’ve had for 20 years at this level, who bear in mind as a lot as I do what it was prefer to be in New York Metropolis and going out to auditions and never getting it,” mentioned Stan. “Even my mom, who has been with me over the vacations, I used to be rising up along with her in Vienna, Austria, and never even actually figuring out that I used to be going to get to America. So after I take into consideration these moments,” he continued, “I’m instantly humbled and on the bottom. As a result of at the same time as it’s at present, with out something taking place on Sunday, it already seems like such a win.” Stan devoted the award to his mom and stepfather throughout his acceptance speech, additionally taking the time to profess his like to his girlfriend, actor Annabelle Wallis.
Stan spent hours in prosthetics for each A Completely different Man and The Apprentice, getting comfy with a little bit of metamorphosis. “I form of liken it, for higher or worse, to being in a relationship,” he mentioned of transitioning again to himself postproduction. “I all the time bear in mind someone telling me, ‘Nevertheless lengthy you’ve been with someone in a relationship, take away half the time, and that’s how lengthy it’s going to take so that you can recover from them if you break up.’ It’s slightly bit like that. It doesn’t simply go away abruptly, I suppose. There’s a course of…that occurs with it. It’s kind of a gradual, gradual disconnection.”
However does Stan discover it tougher to vanish into a personality or current as himself at an awards present? “That’s an excellent query,” he mentioned with amusing. “Generally it’s simpler reworking into a task…. Being your self at an award present, it may be fairly difficult, as a result of I’m not going to an award present [thinking], Oh, I’m a humorous, attention-grabbing man. I’m feeling self-conscious.”
