Enjoying an actor with a facial disfigurement who will get an experimental therapy that transforms his look however doesn’t assist his profession has gained Sebastian Stan his first Golden Globe, for “A Totally different Man.”
“Our ignorance and discomfort round incapacity and disfigurement has to finish now,” Stan mentioned whereas accepting his award. “We now have to normalize it and proceed to reveal ourselves to it and our youngsters, encourage acceptance. A method we are able to do that’s persevering with to champion tales which might be inclusive. This was not a straightforward film to make.”
The director Aaron Schimberg’s darkish comedy was launched by A24 however wasn’t one of many studio’s most high-profile initiatives this yr. It’s a satire about Edward (Stan), who, after getting a brand new face, discovers that his former neighbor (Renate Reinsve) has written a play impressed by him. Sadly, she now doesn’t acknowledge him and doesn’t suppose he’s the appropriate particular person for the lead in her present. As a substitute, she is captivated by Oswald, performed by Adam Pearson, an actor with neurofibromatosis.
“A Totally different Man” was not the one film that garnered Stan a Globe nomination this yr. He was additionally up for greatest actor in a drama for his transformation right into a younger Donald J. Trump for Ali Abbasi’s biopic, “The Apprentice.” (Adrien Brody gained for “The Brutalist.”) That movie focuses on Trump’s relationship with the lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s. Talking of “The Apprentice” throughout his acceptance, he mentioned it was a film he was “fortunate to be part of and that I’m proud to be in.”
For a time it was unclear whether or not “The Apprentice,” which premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant in Could, was ever going to hit theaters. Trump, then working for president, threatened to sue. It was in the end launched by Briarcliff Leisure in October. Talking to The Instances concerning the choice to play Trump, Stan mentioned, “for some purpose each time any individual mentioned, ‘Don’t do it,’ it made me wish to do it extra.”
Referring to each “The Apprentice” and “A Totally different Man” on the telecast on Sunday, he mentioned, “These are powerful topic issues, however these movies are actual and they’re needed and we are able to’t be afraid and look away.”
He ended the speech by dedicating the Globe to his dad and mom: “That is for my mother, who left Romania searching for a greater life and gave me the whole lot, and for my stepfather, Tony, who took on a single mother and a grown-up child. Thanks for being an actual man. Golden Globes, I like you.”
