Sebastian Stan Got Marvel Role After Manager Said the Only Thing Saving His Career Was ‘$65,000 in Residuals’ from ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sebastian-stan-marvel-offer-hot-tub-time-machine-residuals-1236374290/

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  1. >“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. I’ll never forget that. I said to Stephen Broussard, who was one of the producers on Captain America, ‘He’s going to be a good Bucky, but he’s going to be a great Winter Soldier.’”

  2. I enjoyed him in “Once upon a time”. He played a good Mad Hatter before he became Winter Soldier

  3. You gotta hold your cool and play hard to get and mysterious even when you are desperate 

  4. Holy shit he’s the ski patrol guy! I wonder if he got his ski pole waxed by Kelly?

  6. I saw ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ in theaters. (Must have been like March 2010 cause I remember that crappy Tim Burton ‘Alice in Wonderland’ came out in that window.) He had a very small role as a bully, douchy medic named Blaine or something.

    Captain America came out the following summer, so it must have started filming shortly after.

  9. How did he get 65k in residuals from Hot Tub Time Machine?! His role was small. This must have been over several years.

  11. I wish I was getting 65k residuals from any movie

  12. Hats off to the manager 🤩🤩he’s a heart string seller

    Your manager may shade you down in that meeting but they are working overtime for you to get that job they know you are the one for

  14. He played Trump so fucking well. Understated, realistic, incredible. It made me kinda like Trump and I fucking loathe Trump.

  16. Sebastian Stan was one of the best parts about HTTM. Him, his little sidekick character was the perfect foil to Stan’s over the top villain. Oh and Crispin Glover too.

  17. HTTM is hysterical. He was equally great in I, Tonya, but that is post Marvel.

    Unfortunately, I probably won’t watch the apprentice until about 40 years from now.

  18. Am I the only one who remembers first seeing him in that one movie The Covenant

  19. Dude was fantastic in the short lived NBC show Kings with Ian McShane.

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