CBR TV 2014: Sebastian Stan, the Winter Soldier, Discusses "Captain America 2"

[Music] welcome to CBR TV I'm Jonah a while and in the speakeasy sitting to my right it's one of the stars of Captain America the Winter Soldier Sebastian Stan thanks for coming in man thanks for having me put my phone down there that phone my pen down before we start everybody who comes to the speakeasy gets a gift and that's you get one too so you ready you get your own CBR cowbell how well you get a cowbell away that's pretty fun so when you hopefully not during this interview but you're next if you you do because I know you got a million of these to do I'll be using it yeah if you have a k if you have a question you don't like it come on stop yeah yeah exactly I think that's good now you're set so first off you know thanks for coming in today because I know last night was the premiere and I've been to a few premieres in my lifetime and I know how crazy they get I am I am excited to see you are alive and cheerful and bright you know because sometimes those premieres can go bad look it's a sunny day in LA I mean what more can you ask for any any fun fun stories from last night cuz that's that's the kind of like the pinnacle of all this stuff for you well those things are always a little sentimental and a little bit nostalgic as well because you see everybody and you sort of feel like wow you kind of feel like you've arrived at some quote unquote ending even though with Marvel's sometimes it tends to be new beginnings but it's just great to see everybody and it's nice to be together and and it definitely helps when you can celebrate a movie that you're proud to be in and and I felt everyone was was on that page you talked about with marble it could be new beginnings and I think that particularly applies to your character Bucky Barnes in the first movie is nothing like Bucky Barnes in Captain America the Winter Soldier it Bucky Barnes we'll probably nothing like that character in upcoming movies I know you've got a 9 picture deal talked about though when you start because I on the set of the first film and everybody was asking you Leo do you want to be the Winter Soldier do you want to become Captain American all that kind of stuff and at the time you're like look they haven't told me anything I know that that's a possibility but did that knowledge inform the way you approached Bucky in the first film well first off I don't know anything ever higher I really don't I mean I I very much operate on a phone call basis you know if they need me I'm there you know I'm good to go I I love the character I'm be ready to play it tomorrow whichever way they wanted to do it you know as a transvestite great [Laughter] but no I actually I needed to do I needed to read the comics and so just like really get the arc and know as much as I could before the first film and and just for the for that purpose I was educated on it but uh you know I had no idea how they're gonna take it on-screen I had I had no idea at the time so I just kind of went with the flow okay this new movie the evolution of the characters pre extreme almost in the opposite direction the there's you've got a mask on you've got this big costume on as an actor that had to be a huge challenge I've talked actors who've worked behind masks Hugo Weaving and V for Vendetta you talked about his physicality having to be something new for him how when you started making your choices and your breaking down the script what were those choices you made and how did you have to approach it differently than any other role you've had your career well I think I think the costume really helps you know I think it helps when you can sort of not recognize yourself when you look in the mirror you know and and this was one of those situations where the character had such a specific look where I I didn't really and with the mask I didn't really feel like myself I didn't recognize myself to some extent and so some of the things that you rely on as an actor sometimes to go to because you know they work or at work on a stripped away from me and so it was actually a you know I was it was a benefit from me in the long run sort of having having that costume the mask and everything did you learn something about yourself as an actor because maybe yeah don't worry you've still got plenty of ways to go that really you know yeah Wow look I mean you have to you're always chasing something god I'm now I'm courting Matthew McConaughey I mean I really don't you know but yeah but you really had a point I mean it's the truth you just you know you never I don't feel like you ever arrive at a at a place necessarily that's sort of gonna define everything you know and and and am I and I think that's one of the good things about it you know that this role is I don't know if restrictive is the right word certainly reserved in terms of the words I'll help you out you know what I tell people he's finally in a solid film okay so you're in your first silent job yeah no I was like I always wanted to be in a silent movie and I am does that but you know look III know many actors I've worked with actors and III each role tends to bring out to be different insecurities or different yeah or a different emotional thing did this movie change you in any kind of way or did you learn stuff about yourself well I think the physical sort of aspect of it really affected my life because every senior in your big actions well even that but just sort of like trying to get in shape and stuff for like six months prior that the the diet and sort of the whole sleeping schedule and working out and everything I mean you're you know you're having to eat at 3:00 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 10 p.m. you know you're not sort of you know you can't go to a restaurant and sort of just sit down and have a meal while your friends are just enjoying amazing pasta and everything around us so it's your life changes a little bit so that was that was the most that had the most effect on me in terms of of a change there was there was a bit of personal sacrifice as there is with many roles but yeah but but when you're doing it for a good reason it's all good that's true you talk about doing your research when it I met you on the set of the first one you're talking about reading the comics and kind of getting into the character but this was all something that came to you later in life you grow up in Romanian time 12 or Vienna and and you were born in Romania grew up in yeah so so did this stuff come easily for you because I've talked to a lot of people over the years who say when they start reading a comic like their teens or late 20s or something like that it takes a while for them to understand the language because it is a different type of thing yeah no this this came pretty easily I mean I thought I was uh I don't know I was really into it I again it was very new for me but I gained an appreciation of about the comics and I just kind of went with it the whole thing it's just a new experience and so you just you just kind of jump in the water so to speak you have one scene in the film with Robert Redford right hey this man is he is ledge is a legend the creator of the Sundance Film Festival there's so many things that we could bring out of his resume and talk about here you're a relatively new actor you've been at it since you were a kid but in terms of your career taking off I'd say it's been about five six years now for you yeah was that what was that experience like and what kind of actor was Robert Redford for you well the first thing that comes to mind is is that he really for me he really treated me as a as an equal on set which was you know I I came in with sort of this whole perception that I knew who he was in the movies I mean I loved the staying and a lot of movies that he was in and I just I don't know sometimes when you're around those actors they like their privacy they like to be a certain way and you want to respect that but he was so giving he actually was very engaging and he I got to talk to him I got to ask him questions about like Nollywood and just like really the 1950s and and Paul Newman and theater and so it was uh I was I was pretty amazed because he was very he's very giving nervous at all going into it absolutely but any nerves in that situation actually worked to my advantage because of again like you you just you just take anything you can grab to just translate it to the screen so it's just his presence and the character that he was playing and our relationship in the film the dynamics actually translated well from life to scream I know I they didn't let you do a lot of your own stunts or anything like that but it's still a very very physical role was there ever a moment where you were just overcome physically also emotionally do it Wow different it was really it was really tough with the mask for sure because uh we was June July I mean we were out in the Sun the costume was really constricting is very heavy the mask I mean the breathing was really hard really yeah couldn't breathe after some of those fight sequences but again I mean it was it's just one of those things you just you just go you just the adrenaline takes over you just you just go when you were growing up you uh you did some acting at school and you like elementary with primary school and stuff like that and you went off to college remind me where you worked right that's right but you studied at the Globe Theatre in London for a year yes so take yourself back to the time you're doing your hardcore training you're really getting into it and trying to set up your career what did you envision for yourself as an actor at that time what kind of roles were you thinking you'd be playing hoping I mean I I didn't really I don't think you can at least for me I you know at the time and still to this day my approach was always and still is sort of one day at a time I mean this is where I'm at I'm enjoying doing this and you know if I ever comes a time where the fun is out of it then I'll do something else so I was just having a good time learning and kind of like experiencing and so I I didn't really think too much about about the future again I'm still like I don't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing but here I am so it in a way kind of worked for me and and so I just that's my approach to it you've done TV work you've done a film you've been at you now an action star when you were back when you were studying did you gravitate towards more dramatic roles comedic roles was there anything that you had a preference well first of all I was really obsessed with Jim Carrey when I was going really care was a big thing of me wanting to act yeah I mean I was imitating Ace Ventura and everything he did Dumb and Dumber and mental hospital oh my god I yeah I mean so in a sense comedy was always something I gravitated to I it's not something I've gotten a chance to do but it's it's on my radar it's it's hopefully the opportunity will come because I don't know I don't know if it helps to say that I think I'm funny but everything I do I am and my head seems to be funny sometimes so we'll see but comedies always been interesting to me did you get to perform at the Globe Theatre I've been there I've seen two performances there and it's it's pretty amazing cuz it's outdoors the elements are happening around you and the other you've got The Groundlings down yeah it's really it's it's a strange experience because there's actually one point on the stage where you can stand and you can whisper and the whole place and it will echo everywhere you can you can talk so quietly and everyone will hear you in that space you just which is amazing about the way that it was designed we just did we did Twelfth Night over there and we had mark Rylance as an artistic director at the time and Mark Rylance has gone on to do all these amazing productions on Broadway and he's in movies and he's just one of those actors that everybody wants to you know follow and emulate so it was a great experience yeah as I finish up here whenever I do an interview in here I want to find out something a little bit more about whoever I'm interviewing and before the cameras were rolling you brought up something and I said we need to talk about this on camera cuz you lit up when you started talking about this something you said you were basically obsessed with and I'll let you run with it from there I won't tease it but something you've become really fascinated by well I yeah just uh we were talking about the concept of singularity and the kurtzweil documentary and I just I was just saying and we were you know I was sharing with you how this sort of idea of technology kind of running ahead of us and and in terms of just rapidly progressing and us getting to a point of somewhere having to merge with it or kind of decide to be against it and just a sort of thing in terms of the way we communicate now it's just easier through text sometimes in calling and hearing each other's voices and so the the singularity is anyway it just talks about that and so it's just something that I get out about but it is it is it is a major change because I feel like we're moving towards that we understand so I'm curious how that's gonna shape up well and it seems to me and I've read a couple stories about this how they say how technology is affecting us socially and that it's making there's a claim that it's making humans less empathetic I don't know if that's true and I don't know how you exactly measure that but it does seem especially if you look at like online conversations right they react whether it be celebrity news right or political news that it's quick reaction first emotional responses of a never a second and I think that's that has a lot to do with this connectedness there well absolutely but also like you said like listen we have impulses right away we feel certain certain things at certain times immediately and then we might not feel in like ten minutes later but now we have access to sort of communicating that right away so that's why sometimes you get some of these tweets that are some or I don't know but it's just uh again it's this is where we're at and just how we're communicating so how do we adapt to that so yeah I guess I guess I guess it's not worth fighting against it's what's here and it's just a matter of finding a new way of utilizing it because I think we're still still applying well which is why which is why the movie her was such an incredible movie is because it was really realistic to me I just felt how could you not want to have that you know sort of right there in your hand a personal relationship that you can go to it's just it was just a it was just an amazing movie cool I can't let you go without asking do you think he'll be back on what's a long time I don't know I really don't know yeah no phone calls yet no phone calls yeah no I have no idea I know our staff was really they like you as Mad Hatter and that had to be a lot of fun okay yeah I know I had a great time I mean that's that's such a cool character and and and like I said you know those guys just kind of reinvented all those stories and it was just it was a great thing to be a part of but I you know I have no idea well good luck you've got seven more movies to make with Marvel you've got a lot going for you hey welcome to the Marvel Studios universe this is a pretty exciting time for you man I appreciate it man thank you thanks very much it's a pleasure to meet you pleasure to meet you man he's Sebastian Stan I'm Jonah Weiland and this is CBR TV

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Keywords: Bucky (Fictional Character), Sebastian Stan (Theater Actor), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Film), Comic Book Resources, Captain America (Fictional Character), Sebastian Stan, CBR TV, Marvel Studios

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Length: 14min 55sec (895 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 20 2014