Say what you want about the Hulu limited series (which plenty of people are), one things for sure, Sebastian Stan slayed it as Tommy Lee in Pam & Tommy and that’s not up for debate. However, in order to play the lanky yet chiseled Mötley Crüe drummer, Sebastian shed a few pounds which apparently led to more than just weight loss.
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As he recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly, Stan said, “I was trying to lose weight and I still felt I didn't lose enough weight. And people were telling me I was crazy and going, 'You have body dysmorphia now,’" which according to the star “I always did anyway.”
Vastly changing up his workout routine from his Winter Solider regimen, Sebastian explained "I was just running and trying to get 20,000 steps a day, and then I was fasting for 16 to 18 hours a day,” Adding, “And that definitely does something, especially if you're in traffic. But I'm proud of the whole thing.”
Opening up a bit more about his perspective and personal experience with body dysmorphia, Sebastian told EW, “Anybody that even has a healthy physique to some extent has body dysmorphia.”
"Because once you're going into a peak, the best look possible, which by the way, I don't care what they say, unless there's like, magic formulas out there — which there are but some of us are not in that pocket — your body can only be at peak 100 percent for like maybe a week or something. At least, how I've experienced it; and I mean diet and exercise and tanning and water and lighting and everything. And then you spend the rest of the time going, 'I'm not what I used to be.' But it's just all in the head.”
"But I thrive well in discomfort, especially at work,” Sebastian reasoned around both the physical demands and having to learn drums to play Tommy. "It pushes you and as long as you can manage and handle it well, you can grow from it.”
Another part of the process of morphing into Tommy meant Sebastian had to be covered in tattoos and piercings. Which he noticed effected his day to day interactions. “People serve you coffee differently when you have tattoos," he joked. "I've always debated a tattoo and I've never done it. I never got one so the little boy in me, with the tattoos, was definitely having a field day, enjoying it.”
All eight episodes of Pam & Tommy are currently streaming on Hulu.
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