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‪@MaggieMinLA: Sebastian Stan and Director Ali Abassi attended the #THEAPPRENTICE Screening and #SebastianStan said he was invited to Variety Actor on Actor interview but couldn’t find an actor want to do it with him , because their publicists were hesitated to let them talk about this movie so he couldn’t do it 😢 I felt so sorry for him . He and Jeremy Strong ‘s performances are both brilliant in the film and they should not be forgotten in this awards season. I have seen this film with public and press they both reacted so well and love it .‬

‪@MaggieMinLA: I felt heartbroken to hear him talk about this and the movie has faced so many challenges to promote yet people who has seen it loved it and it’s a film with great balance and wonderful performances that shouldn’t be ignored . #SebastianStan also did a great job in #ADifferentMan . Best luck to him during the awards season !

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Honestly it's a disgrace that "woke" Hollywood won't be assosciated with Sebastian because of The Apprentice. He is clearly not a Trump fan and did not vote for him. He merely played a younger version of Trump onscreen as a means of calling out what an piece of shit he's been since he got his daddy's money. As in immigrant himself, as well as his mother, he would never support Trump. Now in Hollywood, apparently playing a piece of shit makes you a piece of shit? I'll do Actors On Actors with him for God's sake. I judge actors by their preformance and capability to do their jobs. If he pisses you off in the role, maybe hes a better actor then you give him credit for.

Also, shame on his Marvel costars for objecting to do this interview. They know he isn't a Trump supporter.

“... I couldn't find another actor to do "Variety's Actors on Actors" with me because they were too afraid to go and talk about this movie. and it doesn't matter, that's okay, that's not to point a finger at anybody. I've gotten to do a lot of great things.”

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I love finding out new things about Saint Robin Williams

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katie's actual quote in variety

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Sam Reid, Assad Zaman and Delainey Hayles at the Variety Studio at SDCC for "Interview with the Vampire" on July 26, 2024

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Good morning!

Assorted Doughnuts 🍩

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Manhattan by day, at dusk and at night.

Variety (Bette Gordon, 1983)

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Sebastian Stan for Variety Magazine

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Sebastian Stan - Variety September 2024

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SEBASTIAN STAN FOR VARIETY

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PEDRO PASCAL Sundance 2024 | Variety

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Sebastian Stan’s Variety ‘Actors on Actors’ Halted Because No Other Talent Wants to Talk About Trump

No talent that could be paired with him for the video series wants to address Trump or Stan's film "The Apprentice" at all, Stan said. Variety has now confirmed this to IndieWire.

BY CHRISTIAN BLAUVELT

Sebastian Stan said in a post-screening Q&A of his film “The Apprentice” Tuesday night that his participation in Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” video and TV series is halted because no other actor wants to talk about Trump. Stan plays the president-elect in the Ali Abbasi film that covers Trump’s early years and rise to initial prominence as a Manhattan real-estate mogul.

Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh confirms that this is indeed the case to IndieWire. “What Sebastian said is accurate,” Setoodeh said in a statement. “We invited him to participate in ‘Actors on Actors,’ the biggest franchise of awards season, but other actors didn’t want to pair with him because they didn’t want to talk about Donald Trump.”

In his remarks, captured on video and posted on Twitter, Stan said that he thinks this refusal to engage at all with Trump as a subject is unfortunate, and even bad for the country.

“The amount of love that I’ve received from some of the biggest — both of us I think [referring to Abbasi] — in terms of actors, directors, producers, writers who’ve seen the movie and rave about it… But then, for instance, I had an offer to do Variety’s ‘Actor on Actor’ [sic] this Friday, and I couldn’t find another actor to do it with me because they were too afraid to go and talk about this movie, so I couldn’t do it. And it doesn’t matter, that’s OK, that’s not to point a finger at anybody. That’s not pointing at anyone specific, we couldn’t get past the publicists or the people representing them because they were too afraid to talk about this movie.

“That’s when I think we lose the situation because if it really becomes that fear or discomfort to talk about this then we’re really going to have a problem. There was an op-ed in the New York Times recently that I thought was really interesting, which said that ‘we have to stop pretending that Trump is not one of us.’ And that’s a really difficult thing to deal with at the moment, and I understand the emotions are very high, but I think that’s the only way you’re going to grasp this film. All it’s saying is you cannot keep casting this person aside, especially after they get the popular vote. Should we not give this a closer look and try to understand what it is about this person that’s even driving that. I don’t know if the love is gonna translate into action, but it’s certainly there from what we’re hearing.”

Needless to say, “The Apprentice” does not present a flattering portrayal of Trump. It shows him involved in various grotesque moments — and goes so far as to show him raping his first wife Ivana. Stan has been publicly critical of Trump himself but has stressed the need to engage with why we got here. The refusal to engage with the subject at all since Trump won the presidency aligns with other recent trends, such as the massive ratings collapse that MSNBC has suffered post-election.

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SABRINA CARPENTER photographed by Matthew Sprout for Variety

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SADIE SINK Attending Variety's Power of Young Hollywood event on August 8th 2024

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"The Eras Tour" is this week's Variety cover story:

"Biggest World Tour Of All Time. How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Took Over the Entire World."

(July 31, 2024)