‘The Apprentice’s Sebastian Stan Pleads “Let’s Not Normalize Indifference”; Reveals ‘Thunderbolts’ Can’t be Compared “To Any Previous Marvel Movie”

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When Sebastian Stan was growing up in Romania under communist rule, the risk of speaking up, or challenging the government, was truly terrifying. “I remember being very young in that country, where you would be afraid of what your neighbor might see or think or hear in your own house because they could call and tell on you,” he says.

Perhaps it’s partly that early experience that led him to step up and play a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice—a role most actors might have shied away from, in which he embodies a story so divisive and contentious it could easily have toppled his acting career.

And now, post-Trump-win, Stan continues to speak out, when much of Hollywood has fallen eerily silent on the topic. On Sunday night at the Golden Globes, Stan was double-nominated, for both The Apprentice and the A24 film A Different Man, and he won for the latter.

That winning role—of Edward Lemuel, who undergoes treatment for facial disfigurement caused by neurofibromatosis—was, in itself, another bold choice.