US actor Sebastian Stan talks about previous unsuccessful attempts to get big roles. “There were a few things that I didn’t get, but that I really wanted,” said the 42-year-old (“Avengers”) in the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. Filmmaker JJ Abrams invited him to test shoot for the role of Captain Kirk, Stan said. “And my manager had me do a separate photo shoot where I tried to copy all these William Shatner photos just to send to him so he could see how much I looked like him and stuff,” Stan says.
Canadian actor William Shatner played spaceship captain Kirk in the 1960s cult series. However, the role of Captain Kirk in Abrams’ “Star Trek” films ultimately went to Chris Pine.
Stan explained that he had also been to test recordings for “Green Lantern” but had immediately lost heart amidst colleagues like Ryan Reynolds and Jared Leto. Looking back, he was “almost happy” about it because he didn’t know “whether I could have tolerated as much attention as some of these guys.”
Romanian-born Stan later landed the role of “Winter Soldier” in the “Avengers” films. At the Berlinale this year he won a Silver Bear for his leading role in the tragicomedy “A Different Man”. In the film biography “The Apprentice,” which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in May, he plays a young Donald Trump.
