Mimi Cave, Director, was driving when she received an email from someone she didn’t know. Sebastian Stan was writing under a pseudonym.
Stan wrote, “I couldn’t help but to myself.”
He was being considered to star alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones’ feature debut, “Fresh,” loosely about the horrors and modern dating. Attached was a video of him in a kitchen dancing with a steak knife.
It was not unrelated to the role. Steve is Steve’s character. He has a pivotal moment in a kitchen to Animotion’s “Obsession.” Cave had a background as a dancer and director of music videos for cool indie outfits such as Lucius, Sleigh Bells, and tUnEyArDs.
Stan didn’t realize at the time that the part was his.
Cave laughed and said “I had to pull over my car.” “We had already decided that we would cast him, but this was the final nail in the coffin. He was clearly super excited about it, and he was inspired.
Although it’s only March, Stan is already enjoying a huge year. He plays the role of Tommy Lee, Motley Crue drummer, in “Pam & Tommy” as well as a boyfriend in “Fresh”, both of which can be viewed on Hulu.
“Fresh,” in particular, had Stan doing deep dives on relationships, reading Alain de Botton’s treatise on marrying the wrong person, and other complex men in recent history that should probably go unnamed — it’s one of those the-less-you-know-going-in-the-better movies.
He said, “It has that fun type of spontaneous, naturalistic banter which you would see in “Before Sunrise.” Two people meeting and sort of calling out each other and kind of being honest about how awkward it is to meet someone without actually knowing them.” You want to see what happens between these two people. It becomes more interesting when it turns.
Stan is most well-known for his Marvel connection — he has been playing Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Captain America’s archenemy, for more than a decade in films and on the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.”
Stan stated, “I learned so many things from Marvel.” I still credit Marvel for allowing me to have a chance and being able to consider me for certain things.”
He’s also amassed a impressive list of directors and co-stars over the past twenty years. Stan doesn’t care about the role’s size. Stan has always been open to taking smaller roles in order to be able work with people such as Jonathan Demme (“Rachel Getting Married”) and Ricki and the Flash (“Ricki and the Flash”) and Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”) and Steven Soderbergh (“Logan Lucky”).
Stan stated, “I would rather be part of a project asking questions that people will talk about” or having one scene than being in every frame of something that doesn’t seem to connect.
He has played the roles of sons to Meryl Steep (“Ricki and the Flash”) and Sigourney Weber (“Political Animals”), infamous lovers to Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”) and Lily James (“Pam & Tommy”), and as support to Nicole Kidman’s detective (“Destroyer”), as well as Jessica Chastain’s super spy (“The355”) and astronaut (“The Martian”).
Stan tells it like this: Stan woke up one morning and realized that he was just as good in roles opposite “very powerful women.”
Stan is happy right now, but he’s not ready to get up.
Stan stated, “You must remember that I am from Eastern Europe.” “I was raised thinking the other shoe would drop.”
Stan was born in Romania, in 1982. His mother and he left during the 1989 revolution. They moved to Vienna for a while, although neither spoke German at that time. Stan moved with his mother to Rockland County, New York when he was 12. He began acting seriously and attended Stagedoor Manor’s summer camp. There, he met Natalie Portman and Robert Downey, Jr., who he would end up working alongside later. His Broadway debut in “Talk Radio”, 2007 was what put him on Demme’s radar. It also gave him the opportunity to meet Al Pacino, Paul Newman and more.
“(Demme), came backstage and stated that he was doing the movie with Anne Hathaway. There’s no role for him, but I’m just going to figure it all out. Stan stated, “You’re just going in it.” He was such a generous, kind man.”
Stan is currently working on a few projects, including one for Brady Corbet. This was a project he saw at auditions and that they are trying to get off to the ground. He might also consider producing. He doesn’t want ever to be lazy.
“I feel that you have to always grow,” he said. He said that you have to keep trying to swing. “I am very afraid of getting too comfortable or becoming too comfortable with any one character and I’m very afraid of being complacent.”
