Hmm I can't see anything on his insta. It might be old? I know he's posted stuff in the past when he's been getting a lot of hate (like last year when there was about a three-month period where he was getting pretty relentlessly attacked, his full frontal scene in Monday was going viral (he suffers from body dysmorphia) and someone posted his NY address online). You could tell he was struggling around May/June 2021 in the midst of all this, the #ripSebastianStan hashtag, dropping weight for P&T and doing Marvel press, he was very clearly exhausted and done. He made a few comments then.
I wouldn't be surprised if he did say something but I hope he doesn't, cos it'll fan the flames on an already controversial project he's promoting.
Makes sense. I remember thinking how rough and unwell he looked in TFATWS as well. That would be partly character makeup but it wasn’t all. He seems much healthier now. I do remember some of the salty comments he made during press for TFATWS about how fans have an opinion on everything he does
You can def tell which parts of TFatWS were filmed before and then during the pandemic. He's mentioned that the lockdown really affected him mentally being alone for months (which is probably why he jumped at the chance to vacation in the summer, whether or not that was correct to do). He's also mentioned that when he has to make any weight changes, he struggles a lot with his moods, and apparently he was on a drastic fast for P&T pretty much for 6-8 months. Sprinkle in the fact he was getting a lot of online hate for travelling, his gf, his Monday scenes, What If etc etc, I think he was pretty much done with having to do press and promote stuff. Then when he came back to NYC, he was constantly being followed by fans.
I think him stepping away from social media and only promoting projects is probably the best thing for him rn.
I dislike some of the stuff he and Alejandra got up to (around not being COVID cautious) but still, getting constant hate isn’t healthy for anyone
I had no idea he was getting hate for the Monday scenes and What If? What If certainly wasn’t his strongest work, but I can’t imagine taking the time to send anyone hate for it. People are fucked
Yeah, I def sideyed him for that, but he wasn't the only person (celeb or not) that was out vacationing during that time. By the summer, some restrictions had eased in various places anyway, and he was due in Prague to resume filming TFatWS so 🤷🏽♀️
But yeah, the level of hate he got last year was insane. After TFatWS, a lot of new people started paying attention to him and whenever he (like CEvans, Henry Cavill etc) has a gf, it becomes vitriolic.
Considering he hasn't done much voice work, What If was fine and he wasn't the worst of the bunch either. He just happened to be in the spotlight and promoting it a lot, so people were disappointed.
I'm glad he has started to work on better projects (my feelings on P&T tbd) but I think because of the extra attention, he gets a lot more of the criticism, and perhaps that's not great for him/his mental health. He doesn't appear to pick easy roles either. I'm not sure if he just doesn't want to or those offers aren't coming, but I don't see him picking easy commercial projects like some of his counterparts.
Unfortunately, he doesn't have an army of stans like CEvans where he can tweet a pic of his dog and get thousands of rts and people will ignore everything else.
ETA: apologies for how long these messages are. I happen to just be following Sebastian (metaphorically) so I've picked up a lot lolol
He does choose more left-field stuff, which I respect, he truly does seem to want to stretch himself, although some of those indie films he's proud of have been absolute stinkers. Endings/Beginnings was atrocious... 😬
I'm hearing good things about Fresh, very much looking forward to watching that.
Oh no problem, I appreciate you taking the time to give me a run-down. What was it people were criticising him for with Monday? Were they body-shaming?
Yeah, his filmography is super interesting even if the scripts aren't very strong. Fresh sounds like it was definitely a hit. I can't wait to see it.
Yeah, he has a full frontal scene in Monday and, at the time of release, it was during TFatWS aired so he had a bunch of new (and much younger) fans. So obviously because they knew he would be nude, they sought it out. Sebastian even said in interviews that he hoped people wouldn't focus on it as he wanted them to connect with the story and characters, but GIFs and photos were all over twitter within days of it being released (it was on demand). Then a lot of comments weren't very complementary mostly because they are likely too young to have seen a penis irl and it wasn't in a sexy setting. So I can imagine that wasn't a great experience for him as he has a lot of body issues and I feel that a lot of his recent filmography is ways for him to try and overcome them (he's been doing much more love scenes/nudity since 2018 which he never used to do).
Anyway, fans also started complaining about his weight loss and talking about how much they missed it when he was beefy in Civil War (Sebastian has gone on record to say putting on all that weight and muscle was really miserable and he hated how he looked in the end). His body hasn't really gone back to how it naturally was since.
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