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Adam Pearson Is No Wallflower

In A Different Man, the actor has his biggest role to date in a dark comedy inspired by his upbeat personality.

“I came in hot and high and wildly unprepared,” Pearson says about doing Under the Skin, but his scenes in Glazer’s moody sci-fi thriller, in which Johansson’s human-harvesting alien picks him up and later sets him free, were probably the most memorable moments in one of 2013’s most acclaimed films. Now, he has what is certainly his biggest role to date as one of the stars of Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man, a noirish, existential comedy that was one of the breakout titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released by A24 in September, right at the start of awards season. A Different Man follows Edward Lemuel ( Sebastian Stan), a morose and introverted struggling actor with neurofibromatosis whose life changes when an experimental treatment miraculously removes the tumors covering his face.

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