Yahoo Lifestyle People Are Emotional Over One Of Sebastian Stan’s 11-Year-Old Instagram Posts After His Oscar Nomination
As of yesterday, Sebastian Stan is officially an Oscar nominee, with the 42-year-old star being nominated in the prestigious Best Actor category at the Academy Awards.
Earlier this month, Sebastian won a Best Actor Golden Globe for his performance in A Different Man.
Interestingly, though, he has actually been nominated for his other 2024 movie, The Apprentice, at the Oscars.
Sebastian plays President Donald Trump in the highly controversial film, which examines Trump’s life and career in the 1970s and 1980s.
For reference, Trump was very vocally against the film being made, and his attorneys reportedly issued a cease-and-desist letter to try and block the film's release due to the negative way that he is portrayed in it.
Trump himself described The Apprentice as "a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job" and called everybody involved in the project “human scum,” and Sebastian previously revealed that he had faced repercussions from his industry peers for starring in it.
Back in November, Sebastian said that he was forced to drop out of Variety’s esteemed Actors on Actors series after all of the other actors taking part refused to be paired with him.
While he noted at the time that it most likely would have been the stars’ publicists denying the pairing, Sebastian also revealed that multiple people in the industry have privately praised him for the film but refused to show their support for it publicly.
So, The Apprentice being nominated at this year’s Oscars is a pretty big deal, but Sebastian faces stiff competition from his fellow nominees: Ralph Fiennes for Conclave, Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown, Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, and Adrien Brody for The Brutalist.
And soon after news of Sebastian’s nomination was announced, one of his decade-old Instagram posts resurfaced online as his fans struggled to contain their pride for him.
In September 2014, Sebastian — who moved to New York from Romania when he was 12 — shared a photo from his high school yearbook that showed him as a baby being held by his mom.
Notably, the photo’s yearbook caption reads: “Most likely to be in the bathroom fixing his hair when he receives his first Oscar.”
“Well…yeah,” Sebastian simply captioned the post at the time, but his fans believe that the post has suddenly taken on a whole new meaning.
Sharing a screenshot of it to X, a fan wrote: “seb posted this on his ig almost 11 years ago and i wanna word vomit so bad rn but i cant stop crying he deserves it so so much after years of being overlooked and pushing himself to the brink for every project. from a little kid from romania to an oscar nominee sebastian Stan.”
And this tweet quickly racked up thousands of likes and retweets from other people eager to share their joy for Sebastian’s career high.
The original Instagram post has also been flooded with new comments from Sebastian’s followers, with one person writing: “You made it 😭😭😭😭”
“Congrats you made it 🥹💜,” another user echoed, while somebody else noted: “this aged well.”
Sebastian himself has not acknowledged his 2014 Instagram post — or the yearbook premonition — but he did issue a statement after his nomination was announced, where he revealed that he was in his home country of Romania when he heard the news.
“I can’t believe I'm in Romania while receiving this news,” he began. “It's surreal. I'm stunned. I’m speechless. I’m humbled. I guess this is what they mean by the American Dream. I'm so grateful to everyone who made the impossible, possible. Thank you to the Academy for this brave recognition.”
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