Sebastian Stan was praised for calling out a reporter who called his co-star a ‘beast’ ahead of their new movie being released.
Earlier this year, the Marvel actor was speaking at the Berlin Film Festival with his cast mates for a Q&A.
Stan is set to star in A Different Man alongside Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve when it hits cinemas on 4 October.
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The drama thriller follows the story of Edward (Stan) who, after having facial reconstructive surgery, becomes fixated on an actor playing pre-surgery him in a stage play.
Edward becomes fascinated with how the actor, Oswald (Pearson), is not interested in undergoing reconstructive treatment.
In real life, Pearson has the skin condition neurofibromatosis, which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerve tissue.
During the press conference, Stan was praised for his reaction when a journalist used the word 'beast' to describe Edward before surgery transformed his appearance.
"What do you think happens after the transformation from this so-called beast, as they call him, to this perfect man?" the journalist asked.
Stan then replied: "I am gonna call you out a bit on the choice of words there, because I think part of why the film is important is because we often don't have maybe even the right vocabulary.
"I think it's a little more complex than that, and obviously there's language barriers and so on, but you know, 'beast' isn't the word I think."
The actor added: "I think ultimately it's just interesting to hear this point, because I feel to some extent that's one of the things the film is saying, you know, is that we have these preconceived ideas.”
"We're not really educated on how to really understand this experience. So I can't really speak to that, one of the things I love about the movie is that he's offering you a way to kind of look at it.
"Hopefully if you can have the same objective point of view while you're experiencing the film, then maybe you can pick apart the initial instincts that you have, and maybe those aren't always the right ones."
Pearson also said: "This was the hook that we gave to Sebastian - You don’t know what it’s like to have a disfigurement, but you do know what it’s like to not have privacy and to have your life constantly invaded.
"You become public property."
And viewers praised Stan, as one person commented: "So Sebastian was definitely right about checking that guy on his choice of words great job Sebastian way to defend and stick up for a fellow colleague and actor."
While others noted that he did it 'politely and eloquently'.
Additional words by Anish Vij.
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