Sebastian Stan is well-known among us nerds for his role as Bucky Barnes aka the Winter Soldier in the MCU. But the actor had aspirations to be in other universes. In an interview with Happy Sad Confused podcast, Sebastian Stan revealed that he was up for the role of Captain Kirk in the most recent Star Trek films as well as Hal Jordan in the 2011 Green Lantern film. Those roles went to Chris Pine and Ryan Reynolds, respectively. (Thanks to Deadline for bringing this to our attention!)
“There were a couple of things I didn’t get that I really desperately wanted,” he said. “But Captain Kirk for J.J. Abrams; that was one of the first I got very close to. I remember I was really, really close, and I remember I had a screen test with [Abrams] at Paramount, and my manager had me do a separate photo shoot where I would try and replicate all these William Shatner pictures just to send to him, see how much I looked like him, but I didn’t get it.”
“Green Lantern was another that I screen tested for,” Stan revealed. “I remember getting there, and it was like me, Justin Timberlake, Jared Leto, Ryan Reynolds and maybe one other person, and I’m looking at these guys going, ‘I’m f—ed! There’s no way this is happening!’
It’s interesting to think of Sebastian Stan as Hal Jordan or Kirk, but at least he got a very nice (and lucrative) job in the MCU, right?
