The actor Sebastian Stan is my guest today
whom I know from Gossip Girl
and my children know him from Captain America movies
as he's his good friend, Bucky.
Hi, Sebastian !
Hi, thank you!
Did you get any sleep?
Yeah, I got about 3- 4 hours of sleep.
In the morning you already had a schedule?
I had a schedule indeed
with Our Big Day Out kids.
They are now at cinema about to watch Civil War.
There are many children that are waiting for you at Cinema Pro.
About 400 or 500 kids, yeah.
You speak Romanian very well considering you had 8 years old when you left the country
Let's see... l might struggle but I'll give it a try
But yeah, it's true.
Leaving the country at 8 years old
I didn't have many people with whom I could talk to in Romanian, except my mother.
And when you're there, you want to speak English very well to get along with people, kids there.
Yeah, you want to speak English well and you don't want to be different at...
at that age
Yeah, when I was about 9-10 years old in Wien respectively 12 when I came to America
I struggled for a while with learning the language
cause I didn't want to have an accent.
And you did it !
Yeah, I managed somehow. My mom still says I have an accent.
I'll see what she says after I come back after these days spent here
If you stay here 3 more days you'll get to speak Romanian perfectly.
Exactly!
We tried to introduce you as we could, but next we'll have 'Autobiography in 20 seconds'
You'll hear a timer
and you'll present yourself in few words withing 20 seconds
Ok.
I am a Romanian that came back here after a long time
I lived in United States
I am a little bit American and a little bit Romanian
I want to.. I have many thing to do
and I don't know how much time I have here on Earth
but we'll see what happens.
And I'm a little bit an actor
I'm a little bit an actor.
Wow, I guess that wasn't very good.
That's it, you did it!
All our stories begin with childhood.
So, I want to ask you where were you born? In Constanta?
I was born in Constanta...
that's where I spent my childhood
in Constanta and Mamaia [a Black Sea resort].
I've been everywhere in Mamaia, I have many memories from there.
And I went to... what is that called? Nudist beaches?
Nudist beaches.
Exactly! When i was very young
I remember that I used to go there with my mother.
And now you didn't get to the nudist beach any more?
No, I didn't.
Though this week-end is a good time going on the beach
Exactly, this weekend is perfect to going to Mamaia
and I don't know what you're doing here in Bucharest... :)
Did your mom ever tell you how was the day you were born?
How it was...
I think it was 5 PM when I was born
and she was thinking how much needed to sleep and eat
but that's all I know from that time that she told me.
How was the neighbourhood where you grew up?
Were there many children?
I was having two friends and that was it.
I was going to school and after that we played outside
all the afternoon and after that I went back home.
You lived in an apartment building?
Yeah. And then we had the TV news in the evening. That's all we had on TV.
And also cartoons on New Year's Eve.
That was during communism.
And you watched New Year's Eve TV special, that's what you said to me.
Yeah, yeah... NYE time is still like that here. It's European thing because
in America it's just another night.
You know, I spent once NYE in New York and I was disappointed that
everyone went home after midnight.
Yeah, but here we grew up knowing that at NYE we have to do something.
I went Greek party to continue after midnight.
Oh, that's perfect!
You might wanna know this, that if you wanna continue to party in NY
you have to go to Queens.
In Queens, yeah, but there's also Romanian restaurants there.
So you lived in an apartment building?
Yeah and I was actually talking to someone recently about earthquakes.
Do you remember earthquakes?
I witnessed about 2 or 3 earthquakes when I was a kid. Let's see...
You left after the Revolution, right?
I left after '89, so in 1990, yeah.
And the earthquakes were in...
In '77 was one that you didn't witness cause you're born in 1982
but there was another after that
There was another one that we felt.
In the late eighties.
We were on a high floor so we felt it.
Were you a good child or a naughty one?
No, when I was a child I always ended up hurt, I used to fell, I was spinning, dancing.
A mirror almost fell on me once.
What kind of dance, break dance?
Yeah, I was hyperactive.
And my mother always worried for me:
"Sebastian, take care, don't do that..."
Was one of your parents more strict and the other more gentle?
No, I think my mother and my grandparents I grew up with them too
They were kinda strict but not too hard on me though.
Not too much.
Yeah, I mean... my grandma, I grew up with her.
The grandmother from your mother's side?
Yeah. And I remember one time she washed my trousers
and I remember that going outside someone got my pants dirty
and I fought with that one a lot cause "My grandma washed these pants!"
Your grandma was very close to you, right?
Indeed. She was always in my heart till the very end.
And do you remember, I don't know... something she taught you?
She used to put potatoes around me when I was getting sick
and with... how do you say it?
Potatoes on your neck?
Potatoes on my neck but also in my socks she put something
Vinegar !
Vinegar and... onions.
Onions?
Onions in the socks, yeah.
And do you still do that?
No no.
You know it might be better than medication.
Yeah, exactly! It's sometimes better than medication we have in America
or who knows what or what knows what
What is the first memory you have with your parents from the time you were little?
I have some videos that I will send you after we finish
and explain the situation.
I don't know but since I was little kid
I used to easily imitating people.
Did you like to imitate people?
Yeah, yeah...
My mom and my granparents always made me do that.
They made you do that.
They probably had fun.
They had fun, I don't know,
but when I was 10 in Wien my mom made me go to auditions.
She realized you've got talent.
She did, but she didn't want to force me do that and this was important
cause I didn't like that too much as I was very shy around strangers.
But did you go to school to any plays?
At school I started writing with my left hand but they didn't let me.
And what else do I remember?
I remember that...
that if I got in trouble
they used to hit your palm.
With a ruler, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, so you caught those times with the ruler.
Yeah, or they sent you to stand on a corner of the classroom.
Your grandparents were from Constanta as well?
In Constanta, they lived there all their life.
And is there any taste or scent that reminds you of your childhood?
If it's boeuf salad, yeah.
Boeuf salad was my favorite food during the time I grew up
and my mom still makes it. Boeuf salad or sarmale I think. These two.
I really need to eat sarmale while I'm here. I can't leave Romania without eating that.
Yeah, I'd say you eat sarmale on the beach in Mamaia.
It would be nice.
<i>And meat 'mititei' [ grilled minced meat rolls ]</i>
With mustard.
Do you remember anything from The Revolution?
Just today I remembered that when I got up
and I looked on window as I am near the Revolution Plaza
I've seen that building where he [Ceausescu] was at that time
That sequence I can find on Youtube, when he gets to the helicopter.
When he takes off from the roof
Whenever someone asks me in America about that I go to Youtube and show them that.
But that event, that day when he was asking: "Citizens, please!"
That is what I remember very clear. And I also remember when I was playing outside
And I also remember when I was playing outside it was a car driving very fast with 5-7 teenagers
who screamed against Ceausescu and holding a flag with a hole in the middle.
This was a moment when I got scared I only had 6-7 years.
And then I watched at TV when they shot him.
And how did you leave the country?
To Wiena at first?
No, my mother left because she was a pianist and had a job there.
And I was staying with my grandparents for a while, but I left there too after '90-'91.
After that I went to Wien. I didn't know german at all.
I mean, I knew a little English from school, but she had some tapes in English
and she used to play that while I was playing and I listened while I was playing.
But no German.
At all.
And I remember very clear when I was in Wien there was a teacher explaining to my mother
"he's not a stupid child, but he doesn't understand the language
"We don't know what to do with him".
And my mom was like: "No. My child will go same with other children"
You mother spoke German?
A little bit, she had to learn it too.
But what did you leave Wien?
In Wien I went to a German school for 2 years
and after that I started a school where they spoke in English and German.
It was there when I started to learn English. My mother met someone and remarried.
And you moved to United States.
And we moved to America, but we didn't plan to move to New York.
My step-dad wasn't decided if to NY or Arizona.
I was lucky to move to New York cause he got a job there
but I could have very well end up somewhere else.
I always thought of that, cause I don't know how it would have affected me
If I would have still ended up being an actor or not.
I didn't plan to become an actor.
When I went there, I was focused on astronomy or science.
Oh, yeah? You were passionate about that?
Science, astronomy?
Yeah, that was it for me when I was little.
I only thought about acting when I got 15-16 years old.
So, how did you find America?
Well, I remember that...
I remember that I cried a lot.
I remember the night before we flew there
I was very scared. I remember I was crying while taking a shower.
Moving is hard when you're very young and have to move
You moved from Romania not long ago.
Yeah, cause every time I made new friends I lost them.
After we moved to New York we stopped with moving to other places.
But it was hard.
It was very hard.
And there was also a shock of a different world.
When you go to America and see those skyscrapers
Yeah, it was very different. But something happens,
you go to survival mode.
Yeah, you need to survive.
Yeah, there's no other way. You either adapt or not.
But I was very young so it was easier.
You were a young teenager then.
Yeah. A little easier than if you're already an adult.
Were you a rebel teen or rather obedient?
No, I was very compliant, too compliant.
cause my step-dad worked at the school I went.
and everybody was paying attention to me so I had to be careful
and I also wanted to be a good student.
So not to embarass him.
Yeah, I didn't have any other opportunities only later when I went to high-school.
That's where you changed to worse.
Exactly.
Did you have any romance in highschool, cause all the boys fall in love during highschool?
During highschool yeah.
Yeah, I was happy I went to highschool.
I was lucky cause I was 15 when I met a manager
whom I worked with till this day.
At 15 already?
Yeah we work together since I was 16. She started to send me to appointments.
From time to time you go to New York. So you go to auditions
and if you succeed it's great, if not, you go to school.
How did she notice you?
At a summer camp.
She found me there and it was then when I started to go to NYC, taking the bus there.
Cause you lived near New York.
Yeah, About 20-30 minutes distance from New York.
So you started to work and have no time for love.
No no, I had time for that.
But were you shy?
No, I used to love quite a lot!
Now at 35, it's different. I do love, but not like I used to.
Were you shy or how did you wait for girls to make the first move?
No, I was shy, I was shy.
To me the most important years were when I was 17-18.
I started to be more confident about myself.
I started thinking about my country again because when I got to US
I didn't want to say where I'm from. I only spoke in English.
Cause you wanted to fit in.
Yeah, and if it wasn't for mom who kept bugging me to speak to her in Romanian
I think I would have forgotten it.
But when I had 18, I liked telling people that I'm from Europe and I lived there,
in communism.
You were interesting like that.
But till then you wanted to be named Christopher.
Yeah, and I was like afraid of Sebastian name cause no one called me Sebastian
They called me Subik or Sebi.
And after some time I said to me Christopher is an American name.
I can't believe I was thinking that.
If you ask me now, I feel so lucky that my name is Sebastian.
And this cause it's from Sebastian Bach.
Yeah, cause your mother was passionate about music.
And she didn't know what name fits better with Stan.
And she thought this goes well.
When were you sure about choosing an acting job?
At about 16-17 years old, when I finished highschool.
And when I had to choose to go to university in New York
You had to choose an University.
Yeah, and I thought a lot where to go
But I didn't get acting speciality until the second year of Univesity.
Do you think it's important to go to an acting college?
For an actor.
Yeah, this gave me an education and I learned to respect
that some people don't have for this craft.
I laugh cause I met many people from Europe, not from Romania yet, but from Russia
who tell you that if you're an actor you're not a man, cause this isn't a real job.
It's not serious job, just a hobby.
Exactly.
So going to University I learned that acting business have a history as well.
I don't know, it helped me to respect this job.
Is it difficult to get a role? Do you go to auditions a lot?
It's more difficult but also easier. It was easier when I was younger
cause I accepted every job I could find.
Any role. Yeah.
Your main fear was not getting a job.
Now is different when people know you. They have expectations cause they know you.
So it's more difficult in a way, cause of the expectations.
It's like what can you show them to be different, that they haven't seen yet.
Did Captain America and Avengers franchise helped your career?
Of course it did. All these movies are very popular.
And yesterday I couldn't believe how many people go watch these movies here as well.
It's extraordinary. In China as well and everywhere.
But what about Gossip Girl role. Did it help you or not?
It helped me. Cause it was in New York where my home was and it was perfect for me.
I think I worked there for 3 years.
And I learned a lot. I had friends on the show.
and I learned a lot that period of time.
Did you choose to stay in New York after being so well known?
In Los Angeles actors get more noticed. In New York you can see anyone on the street
people don't care.
Or so you think.
I saw people more famous than me there.
But can you go with a girlfriend in a club?
Sure. Life is how you make it to be.
You can't be afraid of living your life.
The more attention you get, the more I feel that people close themselves.
I know actors I worked with that are afraid of coming out of hotel
They don't go to restaurant. This isn't a way of living.
You should live more, to see what happens.
It's a little difficult.
Let's talk a little about your role in 'I, Tonya'.
Ok.
How was it?
It was difficult. I liked this director a lot and also the script was amazing.
For those who don't know, the movie it's about ice skater Tonya Harding's life
Yes. And this was a real event in America, and right after that was the one with OJ.
So in '94-'95 was this event and then the one with OJ that started
the 24 hours news channels like CNN.
So, when reading this story, you couldn't even believe this was a true story
You didn't remember the story.
I only remember the OJ event, when I was in Wien
and the class hours were hold to listen what happened to him.
Is it difficult to play a real character than a fictional one?
I think so, cause it doesn't let you too much freedom.
You have to accomodate yourself with who this person was.
Ane we don't know till today if this person told the truth or not.
Yeah, me either, I didn't get till the end of the movie so who was responsible for that.
Everybody tell their own story.
And every one of them reminded what happen from their own point of view.
I don't know.
Would you like to play in a movie with a Romanian director some day?
Of course I would want that.
I've watched Christian Mungiu's movies. And I think that Porumboiu ones too.
Yeah that one as well.
When I will get back to New York I will check some documentary he made.
So yeah, I'd like that but I'll have to get here for a month, cause I still have an accent.
maybe if it's something very specific
but it would be a shame if I didn't.
You said Romanian lines in American movies so you can say English lines in a Romanian one.
Right! Yeah.
And there are a lot of [foreign] movies that are filmed here.
What was the Ghitza thing? I don't even remember where this came from.
What is Ghitza doing?
But I think this is some specific irony for Romanians.
I will search that.
I know you're in a hurry and I don't want
you to get late
we'll rapidly get to 2 segments of the interview
You'll get quick answers and then you can go.
I'll try.
First one: back to back.
Pay attention: we turn back to back. I start a sentence and you will finish it.
It's easy.
You can turn now.
My name could be... ?
Andreea ?
"Darling".
I am... ?
Beautiful !
But you have to talk about yourself, not me.
Oh, ok.
I am... a little bit lost. :))
I look like... ?
Like no one else.
I smell like... ?
Like.. me.
I feel like...
I feel... pretty well.
I made a noise of... ?
Radio!
I taste like... ?
Like professional.
My last achievement was...?
I, Tonya.
I would be perfect if... ?
I'll play in Romanian movie.
I'm ashamed of... ?
My accent when I talk Romanian.
I'd always eat... ?
Boeuf salad.
For money I will do... ?
Children! Uhm, no, that's not a good answer.
A good movie.
A good movie.
I do not love... ?
Jealousy.
Acting is... ?
Hard but also nice.
Ok, you're done with this one.
Turn around!
Are you active on social media?
Instagram, facebook?
Only Instagram, much more last year than when I started.
You've got no choice.
Ok, so here's 10 essential questions and you're gone.
Ok.
Which is the most known person in your contact list?
Oh !
Warren Beatty
Oh, leave me his phone number when you leave.
When you look in the mirror what do you say to yourself?
It's OK. Go ahead.
What is your blood type?
Oh, I don't know. Black.
You have blue blood.
What would be the title of a movie about your life?
He came, he tried and he'll try again.
I don't know.
What do you do when you are down?
Down as in...?
Upset, sad, disappointed.
I go for a walk in the city.
What is the flaw you'd want to get rid of?
No, I need flaws.
Sex in the morning or in the evening?
Every hour if that's possible.
What would you do if you were a woman?
I would take the earth by the balls and do what I want.
[translating]
What was your craziest shopping?
When you bought something completely insane.
I decided to take the plane to somewhere in 2 seconds, without planning it.
Who would you like to be stuck in an elevator with?
Just a second...
In elevator?
Jennifer Lawrence would not be a bad choice.
Sebastian, thank you very much.
I promised I'll let you go quick.
I will invite Mungiu director here now.
To talk about your movie I, Tonya and AIFF.
Thank you very much. You made me laugh, I loved this.
But we'll see each other later.
Yeah, we'll see.
We wait for you again in Romania, we wish you a lot of good roles
and we'll be watching you.
Ok, "no" pressure.
That's what I thought.
Leave the headphones here.
We'll take a short break and we'll come back after that.
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