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Joe Harker
Sebastian Stan has got a new movie out where he plays a man with neurofibromatosis, a skin condition which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerve tissue.
In the film, Stan's character Edward eventually gets facial reconstructive surgery to remove the tumours, but he then becomes obsessed with an actor called Oswald (Adam Pearson) who gets a job portraying him in a play.
The film just recently released and has been garnering positive reviews from critics, with it currently enjoying a 90 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stan and A Different Man co-star Adam Pearson recently appeared on This Morning to promote the movie.
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While on there, he said that the movie's makeup artist Mike Marino had once been double booked for one of the days of filming, which meant Stan got his facial prosthetics applied hours earlier.
That meant he was able to walk around in public for a while, saying: "It was extremely isolating. I was very scared. You stand out obviously, and there's a powerless feeling to it, at least that was my experience."
"It really pointed out that we still have to normalise this idea of being different."
Elsewhere in the interview, Stan said the new movie was 'really special' as well as being 'unpredictable and a lot of fun'.
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Pearson, who previously appeared alongside Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin, said: "There's no suspense or jump scare, or any of the old tropes that we normally see around disfigurement, like villainy, victimhood or false heroism.
"He's just a guy that charms his way through life."
During a press conference for the movie Stan said: "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.
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"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 added: "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."
A Different Man is available to watch in cinemas now.