“You take stock and say, ‘Maybe there’s something more.’” He says he’s yet to figure out what that is, but at the very least it means other, very different kind of roles, including character dramas that require physical transformations and more theater. “You get to a point where you say, ‘What’s my life about besides flying around the world in first class?’” he said. People will look back 20 or 30 years from now and say, ‘Man, those were great movies.’ It’s a stamp of this point in time we find ourselves in.”īut Stan can also seem ambivalent about playing a personal part in helping a global capitalist wheel turn, offering a skepticism that would be refreshing to the general public if no doubt nerve-racking to his agents.Ĭaptain America/Steve Rogers, played by Chris Evans, in “Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War.” (Marvel) Thoughtful with an earnest streak, the actor speaks enthusiastically of the comic book universe, invoking cinema history in a way that might enliven even the most superhero-fatigued - “these movies are like the ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Back to the Future’ of our era.
And as with so many things for a man of a split past, he is of two minds about the idea. Now, after being an ancillary part of the Marvel machine, he is set to become a central cog in it. “I was never really in fully in control of the jobs I had. And for a long time that was key - the hustle,” he said. It is a far cry from the actor who, on graduating from a theater program at New Jersey’s Rutgers University, just wanted to stay busy.
In a few days he will appear on a morning show (“GMA”) for the first time and is about to embark on the type of circuit of late-night hosts (Stephen Colbert, James Corden) usually reserved for Super Bowl MVPs Stan recently moved to the neighborhood, and he’s taking a breather from the kind of media siege that wasn’t exactly standard for past roles on the likes of “Gossip Girl,” “Once Upon a Time” and several New York theater projects. military man - and childhood friend of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) - later brainwashed into working for the Soviets as a kind of human instrument of torture, before (possibly) remembering his roots and seeking redemption. run Thursday night after a massive opening overseas, has Stan revisiting his role as James “Bucky” Barnes, a.k.a “The Winter Solider.” As viewers of the erstwhile film named for him know (and the first “Captain America” before that), Barnes was a respected U.S. Stan is decidedly a man caught between two worlds in Anthony and Joe Russo’s “Captain America: Civil War.” The new and well-reviewed superhero movie, which begins its U.S. And when you’re older you realize that what it really did was make you OK with feeling different.” When you’re young you just want to fit in. You’re inhabiting different worlds, speaking different languages,” Stan said in an interview recently.
But it may have given him a certain psychological edge in understanding characters who slip from one guise to another. Now 33, Stan doesn’t think all that dislocation was always healthy. At the age of 8, he moved from his native Romania to Vienna, and then, four years later, to New York.
As a child, Sebastian Stan occupied more countries than most people do houses.
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