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\nSebastian Stan told a Tuesday press conference at the Cannes Film Festival that he\u2019s \u201cstill purging\u201d from the role that last brought him to the festival: playing Donald Trump in The Apprentice<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen he brought that film to Cannes, it was just months before the 2024 election. Now he\u2019s back, getting rave reviews for playing a Romanian Christian conservative in Cristian Mungiu\u2019s Fjord<\/em>, and Trump has been president again for over a year. Asked by The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> how his understanding of the president has changed in the intervening time, Stan looked down and shook his head, as the press room exploded in laughter \u2014 assuming he was reacting to being asked a question that he didn\u2019t want to answer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tInstead, Stan looked up with a fierce expression, and the room fell silent.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s just not a laughing matter, to be honest. It isn\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019re in a really, really bad place. I really do. When you\u2019re looking at what\u2019s happening, which is the consolidation of the media, censorship, the threats, the supposed lawsuits that seemingly never end, but don\u2019t actually go anywhere, you know, the writing was on the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creative team had experienced this with The Apprentice<\/em>, he said, \u201cto the point where we were three days before the festival, unsure if the movie was going to play at the festival \u2014 and maybe more people are paying attention to the film, and I think we\u2019ll stand the test of time for that \u2014 but we went through all of it way before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. I wish it wasn\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Fjord<\/em>, the Marvel star has a very different hairline than in his last Cannes outing, but the new movie is no less a lightning rod. With a severely shaved head and sizable bald spot, Stan plays Mihai, a conservative Christian father of five who runs afoul of Norway\u2019s progressive, and draconian, child protective services, sparking debates around freedom of speech and freedom of religion that have been echoing up and down the Croisette. The film, with Renate Reinsve as the family\u2019s matriarch, Lisbet, raises questions of who\u2019s more guilty of imposing their values on others: the conservative family that\u2019s praying in school or the progressive system that\u2019s taking their children away. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt received a nine-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at its Monday night premiere and is the current front-runner to win the Palme d\u2019Or. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMungiu based the film on years of news reports, particularly ones he\u2019d read about Norway, in which children of immigrants raised in traditionalist families were taken from their parents. Then he went to Norway and spoke to police, judges, NGOs, journalists. \u201cWhat I really wish to do, like always, is speak about something that I consider to be one of the most important issues in our contemporary global society, which is this conflict of values, and especially between these kind of traditional values and these progressive values,\u201d Mungiu said. \u201cAnd we see that this led to the splitting of the society into groups of people that really detest each other. We say that nowadays we live in a global world, but we couldn\u2019t be more divided.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was not just about Romania and Norway, but about the U.S. and France. \u201cWe live in a very, very divided society in which people have completely stopped trying to understand the others who do not share the same views with them,\u201d he said. \u201cI understand progress, but I think that even a progressive society is good to doubt every now and then about the values that you wish to impose on others. If they are this good, you need to convince them not to impose them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDuring the press conference, Stan described how the film had been a personal quest for him. He was born in Romania before moving to Vienna with his single mother, a pianist, and finally settling in Rockland County, New York, where he first learned English. \u201cPersonally, certainly, it\u2019s been a journey for me to reconnect with Romania,\u201d he said. \u201cI left in a very chaotic way and I\u2019ve really tried to educate myself about the country, and I found through film I can learn more easily.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019d been a fan of Mungiu\u2019s for years, ever since taking his mother to see 2016\u2019s Graduation at the New York Film Festival, and welcomed the chance to speak some Romanian onscreen and rehearse in Romania. He and Reinsve visited Pentecostal churches for research, but he said a lot of his performance was based on his upbringing. \u201cEven though my time really was split between America, Vienna, and Romania, I still grew up with pretty traditional Romanian upbringings, and so I kind of understood a lot of what was going on in the script,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHow we raise our children and what we pass on to them about how we were raised has been on the actor\u2019s mind a lot. He and girlfriend Annabelle Wallis revealed that they are expecting just one night before the premiere, when they went to the Kering Women in Motion dinner and revealed she\u2019s pregnant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been reflecting about having children and trying to understand what it means to be a parent in today\u2019s world, and so that fueled a lot of things,\u201d said Stan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked by a Spanish journalist if he\u2019s experienced being ostracized for his accent or language skills, Stan replied, \u201cI think you\u2019re talking about discrimination, right, on all levels, which is sort of happening around all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI mean, how are we all dealing with it?\u201d he went on. \u201cI think the only way to do it is just to remain as honest as possible, and to think about your own morals and your own values, and to be the example that you, that you want to see in the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs an actor, he said, he struggled to understand his role in stopping discrimination. \u201cI\u2019m an actor \u2014 whatever \u2014 but I\u2019m not on the front lines, I\u2019m not in an operating room, I\u2019m not being shot at,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this is my medium, this is my lane, and all I can do is try to involve myself in movies that bring up conversations and different points of view.\u201d He was reminded of a quote he heard about art once, that it doesn\u2019t have to solve problems, but just embody them correctly. \u201cAnd I think as long as we can continue to do that fearlessly, then I think we can actually push back against those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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