Sebastian Stan wanted the best for his darkly comedic thriller 'A Different Man' and knew that meant finding an exceptional prosthetic makeup artist. He found that in Mike Marino, an Oscar and Emmy-nominated expert.
Sebastian Stan had a problem. He was “in dire need” of the best prosthetic makeup artist he could find, he recalls, without whom the project could very easily fall apart. He was starring in and executive producing a darkly comedic thriller, 'A Different Man', written and directed by Aaron Schimberg. Stan plays a struggling actor with neurofibromatosis, a condition causing facial disfigurement, who undergoes an experimental medical procedure to transform his appearance.
The character, Edward, then adopts a new identity as Guy Moratz, claiming that his former self has died. As he navigates his new life, he becomes obsessed with an actor (Adam Pearson) of uncanny physical similarity to his former self, who is tapped to play him in a stage play based on his life. Stan’s first call was to Mike Marino, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated master of his craft who, over the course of his career, has done thousands of makeups, most recently drawing rave reviews for his transformative work with Colin Farrell on HBO’s 'The Banshees of Inisherin'. The circumstances around the job were intense. Marino would have two months or less to prep, while working simultaneously on the fifth and final season of Amazon’s 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' and the shoot itself would last just 22 days. But fortunately for Stan and Schimberg, the artist was so well versed in all kinds of makeups and production scenarios that he committed to the A24 film without a second thought.— a surreal meditation on identity, transformation, and self-acceptance — he was instantly drawn to its “strange…original and intriguing” qualities
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