A24’s latest release A Different Man was written and directed by Aaron Schimberg and stars Adam Pearson and Sebastian Stan.

The dark comedy and psychological thriller acts as a mirror held up to society, spotlighting people’s biases and ultimately discomfort – reactions Stan experienced first-hand when he walked around New York City wearing his character’s facial prosthetics.

In A Different Man, Stan plays the role of aspiring actor Edward who has a genetic condition called neurofibromatosis which presents itself in the form of tumors on his face.

Left feeling isolated, Edward leaps at the change to undergo a radical medical procedure to remove the tumors, however, having the face of someone who is considered a conventionally attractive man doesn’t live up to everything he thought it would be.

The arrival of Oswald (Pearson) rubs salt in the wound and leaves Edward’s mental health deteriorating in a rapid and alarming manner.

When playing Edward pre-medical procedure, Stan was required to wear facial prosthetics to portray Edward’s neurofibromatosis and the actor tells LADbible the prosthetics really ‘informed [his] whole character’ and ‘the whole experience of going into the movie’.

What’s more, Stan also spent time ‘going out into the world,’ walking around New York City while wearing the prosthetics, which he reflects as being ‘extremely educational in terms of just seeing how people react or don’t react’.

Sebastian Stan wore the prosthetics out in public (A24)

When asked what wearing the prosthetics taught him, Stan tells LADbible: “What did I learn? I think the world’s a cruel place.”

The actor explains he thinks ‘people project’ and while he doesn’t think everyone ‘inherently […] has a bad intention or anything’ many people ‘just don’t know how to deal with difference’.

“Yet we all are different in so many ways,” Stan adds. “And there’s very few people that actually genuinely have the curiosity to understand someone.”

So few, that there was actually only one specific group of people who interacted with Stan while he was wearing the prosthetics in public.

He reveals: “The only people who made any contact with me at all in those prosthetics were children. Everybody else was just either too scared or too worried about themselves.”

Stan reflects his experience wearing the prosthetics in public really highlights how much people ‘still have to learn,’ resolving: “I wish everybody would get to walk around in some prosthetics in New York City for one day and see the world through those lenses. I think it was really important to experience.”

A Different Man is in cinemas now.

Being an absolute classic of a show, you might think the stars of The Sopranos are still balling from its success alone.

Earning itself titles like ‘Greatest TV Show of All Time’, there’s no denying the TV hit’s legendary status. And yet, for one actor, it’s something else that bolstered her bank account.

Drea de Matteo, who, of course, played Adriana La Cerva in the noughties hit, said she makes more money through OnlyFans than she did while acting.

And the 52-year-old has been in plenty other big shows too such as Desperate Housewives and Sons of Anarchy.

She previously spoke about the platform enabling her to pay off her mortgage debt with her teen son helping to edit her content.

The iconic mob wife wasn’t left with mob money. (HBO)

Matteo almost lost her home before she signed up to OnlyFans and quickly turned around her fortune.

She explained to Metro.co.uk how she racked in more from her snaps and videos on the platform than she did working in acting for over a decade.

“I never got paid a lot to act, that’s the truth. I was always paid the lowest, to a degree, I would say,” the star said.

“There wasn’t a lot of money when I first started out with Sopranos. I was a day player, then I became a recurring [character] – they were hard-nosed, the way they negotiated with us. It wasn’t until the end of the Sopranos that I was actually making a normal episodic pay.”

When Matteo left The Sopranos to work on Friends spin-off Joey, she said she got the ‘most decent pay’ she had thanks to being on network TV for 21 episodes. But then she claims FX basically ‘didn’t really pay her at all’ to play Wendy Case in Sons of Anarchy.

The star and her two kids. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

“I went and did Desperate Housewives instead, but that was a one-year contract because I didn’t know if I would want to be there, too. So that’s a lower pay scale,” the actor said.

“I never really made a ton of money, so yes, I made more money on OnlyFans. It’s a true story. I know that sounds crazy but it’s not sustainable money for the long term.”

Matteo added that her friends ‘jokingly’ advised she post some snaps of her feet to save the house.

“Did I want to do it? F**k no, I didn’t want to do it. I was totally anonymous. I never anticipated being thrown to the wolves the way I was when it came out,” she said.

But when the trolls came, Matteo ‘embraced it’ and it’s given her ‘the financial freedom’ to be able to say ‘F**k Hollywood’.

Kaley Cuoco has made a firm decision about her sex scenes in any role she plays from now on.

Probably best known for playing Penny in the Big Bang Theory, the 38-year-old has also starred in the likes of The Flight Attendant and 8 Simple Rules.

And while she starred as Penny, Cuoco ended up having to film intimate scenes with her ex following her split from co-star Johnny Galecki.

It’s fair to say that was pretty awkward for both actors but it seems sex scenes are totally a thing of the past now for Cuoco as she’s packed in doing them altogether.

She’s done filming sex scenes. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

One of the star’s most recent TV roles was playing Ava Bartlett in Based on a True Story on which she also served as an executive producer.

And the true-crime-obsessed real estate agent had some pretty raunchy scenes (although mostly sexual fantasies), which Cuoco got out of.

The actor opted for a body double to perform Ava’s intimate scenes. They even had a prosthetic belly fitted because the star was pregnant at the time of filming and this was written into the show.

Speaking to USA TODAY she said: “I don’t roll that way. I need someone else to do that stuff.

“I’m past that. I’m not doing that anymore. Also, who wants to see that? Not my thing. I’d rather let someone else do it, and that’s what’s movie magic [is for]. We don’t have to do those things anymore. We can have someone else do it, and we can fake our way through.”

Cuoco went on to joke that her co-star Chris Messina also used a double, although not quite for the same thing.

She was pregnant at the time of filming. (Peacock)

He played Ava’s husband, Nathan, a former pro-tennis player who now works as a coach.

“You think that Chris Messina played tennis? Please! He was terrible! That’s his double,” she said.

Having the body double also helped Cuoco out for the non-sexy stuff a she had to be ‘on her feet a lot’.

“It was a lot,” the star said.

“And by the end, I was nine months pregnant. So the fight scene at the end near the grave − the fantasy − a lot of that was done by my double because it was like I was literally about to give birth, like any second.”

She welcomed her first child with Tom Pelphrey in March 2023, a daughter named Matilda.

Steve-O has said he doesn’t want to be happy in life, but he’s got a very good reason why he thinks that.

The Jackass star appeared on an upcoming episode of Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals to talk about life, death and what he’d like the final dish of his life to be.

Chatting to Last Meals host Josh Scherer, Steve-O’s final question to tackle was whether or not he was happy and he gave a fascinating answer.

“Man, that’s a tough question. I started the last chapter of my book that I put out last year, A Hard Kick In The Nuts, with that question,” Steve-O explained.

“In quotes: Are you happy? I went on to explain that that question has always offended me, it feels invasive, it feels personal.

“It bothers me because when I hear it a quick scan tells me no, I’m not happy. Like, I’m gripped by anxiety, I’m totally uncomfortable and like ahhhh,” the former Jackass star said with a shout.

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While being ‘totally uncomfortable and like ahhhh’ doesn’t sound great, Steve-O explained why he doesn’t ever want to be happy.

He said: “It’s just somehow not socially acceptable to say that you’re not happy. So I really just thought about this and I just chewed on it and I arrived at the conclusion that I’m not happy and I don’t want to be happy.

“Because to be happy it seems dangerously close to being lazy, you know if you’re content, you don’t need anything you’re just chilling.

“I’ve got this default mode where I feel like everything’s not gonna be ok, I gotta frantically hurry up and hustle to try and set myself up so that I’ll be ok.

“That’s the fire under my ass that keeps me hustling. So if I had a choice, be happy or just gripped by anxiety and just hustling, striving and accomplishing I’d choose the hustle man.”

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He summed up his answer to the question of whether he was happy as ‘a definite no’.

It’s true, Steve-O never really stops hustling and some of the things he’s done really have to be seen to be believed.

He once released a range of hot sauce titled ‘Steve-Os Hot Sauce For Your Butthole’ and… well, he certainly demonstrated that you could put it up there.

It’s not the first time he’s seasoned himself with hot sauce, having poured some into his eye previously.

He’s also sold dolls which contained his actual hair and scored some incredibly painful injuries with some of his more outlandish stunts, but he certainly seems to enjoy the hustle more than anything.

Tune in to the latest episode of Last Meals on Mythical Kitchen’s YouTube channel on Tuesday, November 28, live at 6:00 AM ET (11am UK time).