Sebastian Stan Pleads “Let’s Not Normalize Indifference”, Reveals Thunderbolts Can’t Be Compared “To Any Previous Marvel
You shouldn't need to grow up under Communism to recognize and denounce modern fascism!
https://deadline.com/2025/01/sebastian-stan-the-apprentice-thunderbolts-interview-1236249353/
When Sebastian Stan was growing up in Romania under communist rule, the risk of speaking up, or challenging the government, was truly terrifying. “I remember being very young in that country, where you would be afraid of what your neighbor might see or think or hear in your own house because they could call and tell on you,” he says.
Perhaps it’s partly that early experience that led him to step up and play a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice—a role most actors might have shied away from, in which he embodies a story so divisive and contentious it could easily have toppled his acting career. And now, post-Trump-win, Stan continues to speak out, when much of Hollywood has fallen eerily silent on the topic.
So, what does he think about the way in which Hollywood has gone quiet about Trump’s impending presidency? “I think there are plenty of people that are just exhausted,” he says. “It’s complicated, it’s not just one word or one answer. But in learning and talking about the movie and the reactions, it’s, ‘Hey, let’s not habituate or normalize indifference or feeling like something’s just too hot to talk about or to deal with,’ because that I think is a slippery slope and I think if we normalize that, then we can do that about anything.”