'A Different Man' Star Adam Pearson Speaks Out About Harmful Tropes Actors With Disabilities Face in Hollywood

The Manchester Evening News’ resident medium has outlined what members of each star sign can expect for the coming week. Leos have been advised to brace themselves and open up their hearts as someone who has hurt them in the past will be making an appearance in their lives.

TV chef James Martin has been making mouths water with his scrumptious recipes for decades.The Yorkshire-born star, who owns award-winning restaurants across the UK and has amassed a fortune of over £5 million from best-selling cookbooks and TV shows, is currently starring on his own show, James Martin's Saturday Morning. Let's delve into James' life away from the camera, including his quiet relationship with girlfriend Louise Davies, and his connections with Hollywood...The 51 year old, who met TV producer Louise Davies on the set of Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2011, has decided against having children due to his dedication to his career.

You’ll have probably seen the pictures from earlier this week showing hundreds of people queuing up outside a new dental practice in Bristol, desperate to get an NHS appointment. The scenes offered a stark illustration of the shocking state of dentistry here in the UK.

Former Emmerdale star Adam Thomas has given an update on his battle with arthritis in a candid new post on Instagram. The 35 year old TV star, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2023, was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, just months before the show started in September. On Monday, 5 February, he shared a number of snaps to Instagram as he visited hospital with his wife, Caroline Daly.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The line sprawling along the corridors and staircases of De Doelen, the heart of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, alerted passersby that there was a star in town. The actor in question? German thesp Sandra Hüller, at the festival to support Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and to give an in-depth talk about her career and latest projects. Hüller, who landed her first Oscar nomination for best actress last week for Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” said she is “definitely not” used to the growing attention.

Cameroon coach Rigobert Song has denied the suggestion that he has fallen out with Andre Onana after he was dropped for the crucial Africa Cup of Nations win over Gambia last week.

“I don’t think you can judge that from Barbie not getting nominated,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tonight to Bill Maher when asked by the host if the snub of the blockbuster’s director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie in the Oscars nominations means America is a patriarchy or not.

NHS bosses in have pleaded with people to help family members get out of hospital as they deal with hundreds of patients stuck on wards. More than 800 people who are medically fit to go home have been stuck in hospital beds this week in Greater Manchester, as they struggle to get care home placements or for social care packages that would allow them to be discharged.

What’s in a name, Shakespeare once asked. British actor Tom Hollander found out unexpectedly that a name can mean millions of dollars, as he accidentally received fellow actor Tom Holland‘s paycheck for a box-office bonus payment for The Avengers.

A struggling ex-teacher who took her own life sent her estranged husband a voice note after finding out he'd been 'cycling with another woman', an inquest heard. Catherine Disbury, 41, moved out of her marital home after her relationship broken down.

This Morning viewers were left telling Dermot O'Leary the same thing about Sian Welby following her hosting debut on the show. The Capital FM star is no stranger to the ITV daytime show as she has been hosting a number of showbiz segments over recent months - including becoming the resident I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here commentator for the show at the end of last year.

Sebastian Stan is stepping out for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival!

Black Swan in 2011, and she’s been giving good Dior gown since. Last year at Cannes, for example, Portman of Monsieur Dior’s tenure: the ornately beaded autumn-winter 1949 Junon, named after the Roman goddess.For the Dior haute couture spring-summer 2024 show, Portman left the fairytale storytelling to the runway and wore a playful look that was less Cinderella, more May/December.

Manchester City are predicted to win the Premier League for a record fourth time in a row - despite being five points behind Liverpool in the title race.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Here we are, three weeks into January, and the Sundance Film Festival has delivered what promises to be the year’s most uncomfortable date movie: a grubby New York-set fable about a facially distinctive actor (modeled on Adam Pearson) who undergoes an experimental procedure that leaves him looking like Sebastian Stan — presumably an improvement, until he realizes that under the skin, he’s still the same miserable loser. The kind of oddball satire only indie studio A24 would dare to produce, Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” asks what it means to be “normal,” and whether, if we could wave a magic wand and “correct” those qualities that set us apart, that’s really something we’d want.

A Different Man tackles weighty themes of disability, identity, and transformation. Directed and written by Aaron Schimberg and starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, and Adam Pearson, what emerges is a complex portrayal of the clashes between outer perceptions and inner truths and makes valiant efforts towards inclusion to express a vital message about appearance and identity, but the execution can often feel tonally inconsistent, and overlong.Edward (Stan) is an aspiring actor with facial deformities (neurofibromatosis, to be exact), that subjects him to ridicule and isolation. Though self-conscious and lonely, Edward finds hope when he befriends Ingrid (Reinsve), his empathetic, playwright, next door neighbor. When presented with the possibility of normalcy through a risky reconstructive procedure, Edward pursues the chance to lead a life free from judgment and staring eyes. 

William Earl administrator “A Different Man,” a chilling story of identity and obsession with a dark sense of humor, debuted at Sundance with a well-received Sunday evening premiere at the Eccles Center. The A24 film stars Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson in a tale of an actor who has facial reconstruction surgery and must come to terms with the fact that a theater role based on his life is given to another actor. During the screening, the Sundance audience was rapt with attention at the twisty script, which included a strange and kinky sex scene that left people squirming in their seats, as well as some realistic gore that earned yelps from the audience.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sebastian Stan is back at Sundance this year for the world premiere of A24’s “A Different Man,” co-starring Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve. The three actors joined director Aaron Schimberg at the Variety Studio presented by Audible to discuss the film, which centers on an aspiring actor with a facial disability who undergoes a radical medical procedure to transform his appearance that proves to be his downfall.

Seven men have been arrested after a woman was raped at a house in south Manchester. The property in Fairholme Road, Withington, was raided by police last Sunday and arrests made.

Gabriel LaBelle has his next role booked!