Accepting his 2025 Golden Globe for Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Movement Image, Musical or Comedy, A Totally different Man star Sebastian Stan reminded these within the Beverly Hilton ballroom in regards to the significance of illustration and together with folks with disabilities in our conversations about combating again in opposition to social prejudices.
“Our ignorance and discomfort round incapacity and disfigurement has to finish now,” stated Stan, who starred in director Aaron Schimberg’s movie as an aspiring actor with neurofibromatosis, a genetic dysfunction that causes tumors to develop on one’s pores and skin and bones. “Now we have to normalize it and proceed to reveal ourselves [and our children] to it. Encourage acceptance. A method we are able to do that’s by persevering with to champion tales which might be inclusive.”
He elaborated on this when he spoke backstage within the Golden Globes press room, steadily mentioning Schimberg in addition to his co-star who does have the dysfunction, Adam Pearson.
“This explicit author and director actually deserves to be working and be telling these tales. I feel what this [award] signifies and it’s an excellent acknowledgement that I’m very grateful for,” Stan stated.
He added that “Adam Pearson’s mother, on the finish of the film, after she noticed it, stated to me, ‘I’ve at all times needed anyone to stroll in his footwear; to know what it’s. And that is in all probability as shut as I might get.”
“Now we have to one way or the other preserve including to this narrative and increase and expose additional in order that we do have a extra normalized response,” to folks with disabilities, he stated. “Once I was strolling on the streets, it was simply so excessive. Folks simply really feel you’re public property, that they’ll level at you. They will do no matter they need. They only personal you for wanting totally different; for being totally different … this movie, that truly permits you the viewer to have a look at Adam Pearson with this situation and take him in a different way than the stereotypical preconceived narrative that we’ve been handed down that each disabled one that’s only a tortured one that’s alone.”
In A Totally different Man, Stan’s Edward undergoes a process that can get rid of his tumors. It’s solely afterward, when he turns into a slick realtor, that he realizes his crush — Renate Reinsve’s Ingrid — has turned his story right into a play and that she’s fallen for Pearson’s character, who’s enjoying a model of Edward on stage.
“Quite a bit for me got here alive beneath [designer] Mike Moreno’s prosthetics,” he says. “It was an enormous piece for me as a result of it allowed me to go on the earth as Edward. And that knowledgeable all the things, It knowledgeable the isolation and the powerlessness and the self-consciousness and the invasion of privateness that I skilled 20 occasions extra strolling round as Edward than I ever would as myself.”
Moreno’s work was additionally honored by means of one other performer that night time. He additionally designed the prosthetics for The Penguin actor Colin Farrell, who took residence the Golden Globe for Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Restricted Sequence, Anthology Sequence of Movement Image Made for Tv.