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Sebastian Stan Got Marvel Role After Manager Said the Only Thing Saving His Career Was ‘$65,000 in Residuals’ From ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’
Sebastian Stan's acting career was surviving off the residuals he earned from "Hot Tub Time Machine" when the offer to join Marvel came in.
“I had just gotten off the phone with my business manager, who told me I was saved by $65,000 that came in residuals from ‘Hot Tub Time Machine,'” Stan said about the state of his career when the Marvel offer came in. Marvel Studios co-president Kevin Feige said that despite being a relative unknown and best known for his brief stint on “Gossip Girl,” Stan appealed to him because “you could see that he has so much inside him and so much behind his eyes. But the studio rebounded in a huge way last year with “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which grossed $1.3 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing R rated release in history.
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