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Sebastian Stan Reveals His Secret to Playing Unlikeable Characters So Well · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian Stan regularly plays characters but you can't look away
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  Speaker 2: from on screen. But it's not always the kind of
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  Speaker 2: guy you'd want to bring home to mom. They're occasionally dark, conniving,
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  Speaker 2: even downright unlikable at times, but you believe his performance,
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  Speaker 2: which comes down to his philosophy about acting. He tells Variety,
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  Speaker 2: my job, I think is largely to understand the human
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  Speaker 2: being that's underneath all the craziness. When you do that,
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  Speaker 2: at some point, you have to put your own moral
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  Speaker 2: compass aside. You have to come into it neutrally. Sebastian
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  Speaker 2: stand there, who currently stars in a Different Man in
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  Speaker 2: theaters
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  Speaker 1: Now, oh, that's direct from Hollywood.