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Sebastian Stan Says Playing a Man with a Facial Disfigurement Alongside Adam Pearson 'Was All About Trust'

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson opened up to PEOPLE about 'A Different Man,' in which both men portray people living with neurofibromatosis. "I always say that the two ways to lose your social anonymity in a society in 2024 are to either have some kind of disagreement or disability or to become a celebrity," Pearson says.

And a lot of Adam's experience that he shared with me was really helpful in that regard," Stan says of Pearson, who was diagnosed with the neurogenetic disorder that leaves his skin covered in thousands of thick, painful tumors, at age 5. "And so while [Stan] might not know the level of invasiveness, I feel with kind of pointing, stares and camera phones, he absolutely gets it from the other angle," Pearson adds. Though Pearson has a handful of acting credits to his name, A Different Man makes for a larger role — and a higher-profile release — than his past films.

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