Sebastian Stan called out a reporter for commenting on his co-star Adam Pearson’s facial disfigurement. While the actors were promoting A Different Man at the Berlin Film Festival in February, a journalist asked, “What do you think happens after the transformation from this so-called beast, as they call him, to this perfect man?” Stan, 42, quickly decided to call out the journalist “a bit” for his “choice of words” during the panel in a video that resurfaced this week as he and Pearson, 39, promoted the movie’s US release, reports Page Six. “I think part of why the film is important is because we often don’t have maybe even the right vocabulary,” the Golden Globe nominee explained.
“I think it’s a little more complex than that. “And obviously there [are] language barriers and so on, but you know, ‘beast’ isn’t the word, I think.” In the movie, Stan’s character, Edward, becomes fixated on Pearson’s character, Oswald, who plays Edward in a stage production of his former life.
Pearson has neurofibromatosis, which is characterised by benign tumours growing in the nervous system, both in the psychological thriller and real life. During his clapback, Stan slammed the public’s “preconceived ideas” about the condition. “We’re not really educated on how to really understand this experience,” he said.
“So I can’t really speak to that. One of the things I love about the movie is that he’s offering you a way to kind of look at it..