Sebastian Stan has been running around the city of Toronto.
\n\nWe’re sitting in a restaurant, having lunch between his multiple studio visits for various publications. It’s busy and bustling around us, the way TIFF tends to transform every hotel and restaurant over its 11-day period. Stan settles in at the table and digs into a chicken salad. He’s here to talk with Variety about the movie he says he’s been chasing, in one form or another, since he was a teenager.
\n\n“Fjord” is the film Stan long promised himself he would make: a return, however partial, to the country he left as a boy and the language he grew up speaking.
\n\nDirected by Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu — a filmmaker Stan says he had tracked for years — it is Mungiu’s first English-language feature and Stan’s first Romanian-language role, a project the two circled for a long time before the right script surfaced. Stan plays Mihai, a fundamentalist father whose children are seized by the state, in a story inspired by a real family and shot in Mungiu’s signature register of long, unbroken takes and a pointed refusal of the close-up.
\n\nComing off an Oscar nomination for the drama “The…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/