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Sebastian Stan on his new ‘timely’ film about an immigrant family facing challenges in ‘Fjord’ · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We have five children, unless there's some discipline, you know. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: come down.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: What happened to you?
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  Speaker 1: I just fell down the stairs.
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  Speaker 3: You had to pray every day? What happens if you
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  Speaker 3: don't do your prayers? Is there a physical punishment?
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  Speaker 2: Define physical. Yes? I'm from the local police.
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  Speaker 3: We just need to discuss something with you.
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  Speaker 1: Discuss something with me? Now? Now. Don't they have to
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  Speaker 1: prove what they claim?
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  Speaker 3: Not before they take the children.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: That was a look at the new movie Fjord, which
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  Speaker 4: just took home the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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  Speaker 4: Joining us now, one of the stars of the film,
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  Speaker 4: Academy Award nominee Sebastian Stan. Sebastian, thank you so much
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  Speaker 4: for being here. We should note the film received a
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  Speaker 4: 10-minute standing ovation at that film festival. For those who
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  Speaker 4: are just coming to this and trying to learn what
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  Speaker 4: this film is about, give us a quick sense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's quite timely, actually, in the sense that it's
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  Speaker 1: about an immigrant family that moves to a different country.
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  Speaker 1: And then sort of becomes comes under scrutiny for their
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  Speaker 1: belief systems and values and their children are taken away.
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  Speaker 1: They're torn apart. And the question in the movie is
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  Speaker 1: whether it's for the right reasons or for the wrong reasons.
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  Speaker 4: And talk to us about why this film, this role,
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  Speaker 4: this part resonated with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I myself was an immigrant. I came to this
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  Speaker 1: country when I was 12, very much the age of
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  Speaker 1: the kids in the movie. And so I felt not
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  Speaker 1: only did I want to reconnect with this country that
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  Speaker 1: I'm from initially, you know, Romania, but I also felt
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  Speaker 1: like thinking about fatherhood, wanting kids and asking myself, how
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  Speaker 1: can I be the best parent I can be now?
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  Speaker 1: How do we raise kids today? I felt that the
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  Speaker 1: themes of the movie were really very aligned to what
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  Speaker 1: I was asking myself personally, but also to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of what we're all asking ourselves kind of today.
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  Speaker 4: And you're a new father now, we should note. So
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  Speaker 4: we have a clip from the film in which your character,
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  Speaker 4: as you say, a Romanian immigrant father, is trying to
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  Speaker 4: navigate parenthood in a new country and faces a dire
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  Speaker 4: situation when his kids are taken away by Child Protective Services.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently we were in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Once we admitted that we slapped them.
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  Speaker 2: He's mad.
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  Speaker 1: I can't sit like sheep and watch these people abuse
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  Speaker 1: their power.
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  Speaker 2: I brought a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Who plays by the rules.
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  Speaker 3: She's doing her best. Her best.
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  Speaker 1: Her best is not enough if you want to have
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  Speaker 1: the children back.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing. You did your best. Now I take over.
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian, such a powerful movie. And you have, talking about,
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  Speaker 2: you have a child. Um, how did your feelings about
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  Speaker 2: your experiences in immigrant change and, and how do you
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  Speaker 2: change from doing this movie and what was your experience
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  Speaker 2: there and how, I mean, I think being a parent
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  Speaker 2: changes you so much. I'm curious, you know, you did
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  Speaker 2: that right before the move. You, you had a baby
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  Speaker 2: right after that.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I didn't have a, kid yet when I
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  Speaker 1: was doing the movie, but I was thinking about it
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  Speaker 1: and it was a plan already in motion. Look, it's really,
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard. I mean, we were talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you wake up in today's world and you
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  Speaker 1: turn on the TV and you're just, you know, immediately
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  Speaker 1: flabbergasted at what you see. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you wake up and you see these beautiful, innocent eyes
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  Speaker 1: looking at you and you feel this responsibility towards the
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  Speaker 1: future and making sure that they have an opportunity, a
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  Speaker 1: chance to have at this world that we did. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a huge responsibility to it. I think as it
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  Speaker 1: pertains to the movie, you know, again, we have these,
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  Speaker 1: and I, and same for me coming from this very
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  Speaker 1: traditional upbringing, which is explored in the movie. It's this
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  Speaker 1: question of like, where does culture tradition and history still
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  Speaker 1: serve us? And where does it get in the way now,
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  Speaker 1: as it pertains to this next generation, how do we
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  Speaker 1: raise them? And I think the movie brings all that up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And certainly a very, a very, very timely story. The
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  Speaker 4: new movie, if you're already out in select theaters this Friday, actor,
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  Speaker 4: Sebastian Stan, We also, of course, see you in the
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  Speaker 4: new Avengers movie this December, as well as the next
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  Speaker 4: Batman movie coming up as well. Great to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me. Big fan.
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