Sebastian Stan says outside of his Marvel role, it’s his time playing a cannibal in the horror film “Fresh” that gets him most recognized…
Sebastian Stan is a highly accomplished actor with dozens of roles on his filmography with a chance to potentially get nominated for an Oscar for two separate roles he played in 2024 from “The Apprentice” and “A Different Man” but getting recognized for one of his past roles still freaks him out.
While playing Bucky Barnes aka The Winter Solder in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is still the character he’s best known for playing, Stan revealed recently that a part he played a straight to Hulu horror movie that gets the second most comments.
“Fresh” — a film directed by Mimi Cave released in 2022 — is where Stan plays a character named Steve, who is a charismatic, charming doctor who also just so happens to kidnap women and chop them up to sell their body parts to the hungriest of customers looking to indulge their own cannibalism. Stan starred alongside Daisy Edgar Jones in the film and he admits that’s still one of his most recognizable roles for reasons he just can’t quite understand.
“Weirdly, bizarrely, I still get the fucking Daisy movie ‘Fresh’ with the cannibalism of it all,” Stan told The Hollywood Reporter. “Somehow people still come up and women also with the cannibal thing. I just don’t understand it.”
While a cannibalism fetish is quite disturbing, Stan doesn’t get nearly enough credit for that performance because “Fresh” really was a unique take on the genre, combining a romantic comedy with a truly terrifying premise in a horror film.
In fact, “Fresh” was one of our top horror movies of 2022 when it was first released.
Perhaps next time you approach Stan as a fan of “Fresh,” maybe don’t mention the cannibal thing right up front.
