After Sebastian Stan Revealed He’d Been Shunned By His Fellow Actors For Starring In A Movie That Portrayed Donald Trump In A Negative Light, He Has Opened Up About The “Disappointing” Experience

“The amount of love that I’ve received from some of the biggest, in terms of actors, directors, producers, and writers, who have seen the movie, and they rave about it,” Sebastian began. “But then, for instance, I had an offer to do Variety Actors On Actors this Friday, and I couldn’t find another actor to do it with me.”

“They were too afraid to go and talk about this movie, so I couldn’t do it,” he went on. “And it doesn’t matter, that’s OK. It’s not to point a finger at anybody — I’ve got to do a lot of great things.”

The star then clarified: “That’s not pointing at anyone specific; we couldn’t get past the publicists or the people representing them because they were too afraid to talk about this movie.”

“That’s when, I think, we lose the situation,” Sebastian continued. “If it really becomes that fear or that discomfort to talk about this, we’re really going to have a problem. There was an op-ed that came out, I sent to [Ali], in the New York Times recently that I thought was really interesting, it was: ‘We have to stop pretending that Trump is not one of us.’”

“That’s a really difficult thing to deal with at the moment, and I understand emotions are very high, but I think that’s the only way you’re going to grasp this film — all it’s saying is you cannot keep casting this person aside, especially after they got the popular vote,” he added. “Should we not give this a closer look and try to understand what it is about this person that’s even driving that?”

Needless to say, social media users were left horrified by the way that Sebastian had been excluded by his fellow stars, with some theorizing that the publicists involved feared their clients would face repercussions from Trump himself if they discussed the movie with Sebastian.