Makeup artist Mike Marino warned Sebastian Stan that transforming him for his latest role in A24’s “A Different Man” would require much more from the actor than just wearing a mask.
It would be a transformation that would require him to live in the character’s shoes.
In the film, which opened Friday, Stan plays Edward, a man with neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition that causes tumors to grow on the skin and bone. He undergoes medical treatment to change his appearance and radically transforms. Things are going well until he meets Oswald, played by Adam Pearson. Oswald is everything he’s not – confident, funny, popular and charismatic.
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