Sebastian Stan Claps Back At Reporter Who Calls His Costar With Skin Tumors ‘A Beast’ At ‘A Different Man’ Press Conference

Director Aaron Schimberg and actors Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson and Sebastian Stan were all together for A Different Man photo at the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin on Friday.

Schimberg sported a brown buttoned dress shirt, Reinsve stunned in a black suit, Pearson was in a gray suit with a black shirt, and Stan wore in a green leather jacket.

Reinsve, known for her role in The Worst Person in the World, plays the role of Julie, a medical student who falls in love with a comic many years older.

In the movie, Stan plays a man who suffers from neurofibromatosis – a skin condition that can cause tumors – who has had an operation to remove the tumors.

Pearson, who suffers from neurofibromatosis in real life, plays Stan before the surgery.

At the press conference, Stan got testy with a reporter who called Pearson a “beast.”

The reporter asked, “What do you think happens after the transformation from this so-called beast, as they call him, to this perfect man?”

“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,” Stan replied. “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.”