Marvel star Sebastian Stan reveals his mom's acting advice: 'Be a little less intense with your face'

"She's like, 'Get some moisturizer,'" said the 42-year-old, who laughs about the conversation.

Sebastian Stan's mom has thoughts on her son's acting — or, more specifically, how he moves his face.

She recently told the Avengers: Endgame actor, point-blank, "Be a little less intense with your face," he revealed to Colman Domingo on Wednesday's edition of The A24 Podcast. "I'm like, 'Mom!'"

"My mom, okay, I love her, but here's what she said to me recently when she came to visit me, and she was about to leave," Stan, 42, said. "I'm like, 'Uh, yeah, everything's great. Thank you so much.' And she goes, you know, 'I have to tell you something but don't get upset.' I'm like, 'What's the problem?' I'm already in an anxious place."

"She goes, 'I know you're an actor and everything, but maybe you can express a little less, because I can see these lines," Stan said, indicating his forehead and laughing. "She's like, 'Get some moisturizer.'"

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Domingo brought up the topic after complimenting Stan's facial expressiveness in the new movie A Different Man. The comedy thriller is about Stan's character, Edward, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder, neurofibromatosis, that leaves him with tumors on his face. After he participates in an experimental medical trial and comes out looking like Stan, Edward becomes obsessed with an actor (Adam Pearson) who has the same disorder he once had.

"Just watching your eyes," Domingo said, "watching you react, watching you taking in what's happening as people are loving on him and then wanting him to take over the role, and just watching that rage come out of you."

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The Sing Sing star also noted that Stan's "face changes a lot," and the actor has the ability to "look absolutely handsome and leading-man gorgeous in one frame and absolutely f---ing hideous in the next.... It's a gift, man."

While his mom doesn't always approve, Stan ultimately said, "I think it's a good thing for us to have."

When the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Stan said he spent 1.5 to two hours in the makeup chair with a prosthetic artist who made him into his character before the medical trial.

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"It was really interesting and sort of scary to see how limited the interaction is," Stan said of how other people treated him. "It just really is limited between two extremes, which is either [people] won't address it, or overcompensation. The only people that really were the most honest were kids."

He said the shoot was "a learning lesson for him."

A Different Man is now playing in theaters. Stan also stars as Donald Trump in the Oct. 11 release The Apprentice and returns to his Marvel role as Bucky Barnes in Thunderbolts, releasing May 2, 2025.

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