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Donald Trump biopic causes a stir in Cannes
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Titled The Apprentice, the biopic traces Mr Trump's origin story as an ambitious young property developer in 1970s and 80s New York.
His spokesman described the film, which features a scene where he is seen raping his first wife Ivana, as "garbage", "pure fiction" and "election interference by Hollywood elites".
The movie begins with a disclaimer that many of its events are fictionalised.
It debuted as Mr Trump's hush-money trial continues in New York, while he gears up for another presidential election in November.
What is The Apprentice?
The title is partly a reference to the TV series Mr Trump fronted for more than a decade from 2004.
However, the film takes place several decades earlier, as Mr Trump is making his name as a real estate developer.
Sebastian Stan, who has appeared in Pam & Tommy, Dumb Money and several MCU films as Winter Soldier, portrays the former president.
Succession star Jeremy Strong plays his ruthless mentor and lawyer Roy Cohn.
According to news agency AFP, the film "paints an unflinching but nuanced portrait of the former US president".
The film, said to feature "rape, erectile dysfunction, baldness and betrayal", starts out with a sympathetic potrayal of a headstrong but naive social climber.
As it progresses, however, the movie charts Mr Trump's "decency being eroded as he learns the dark arts of dealmaking and tastes power".
Its director, Iranian-Danish film-maker Ali Abbasi, imagines several brutal events taking place behind closed doors. In one harrowing scene, Mr Trump is seen raping Ivana.
During their real-life divorce proceedings, Ivana accused Mr Trump of raping her, although she later retracted the allegation. She died in 2022.
Speaking to Vanity Fair before the premiere, Abbasi had said the aim was "to do a pu The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice is gorier and more gruesome than you’d expect for a film about the former president. A Frankenstein-style origin story, the movie, opening in theaters Friday, stars a golden-haired Sebastian Stan as Trump and a very bronzed Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, the menacing lawyer who molded Trump into his likeness. There’s a scene featuring Trump on an operating table as his scalp is sliced open and sewn back together, an overt nod to Mary Shelley’s monster. The film’s Trump pops diet pills, gets plastic surgery, and, in the movie’s most controversial sequence, sexually assaults his first wife, Ivana (Maria Bakalova)—script details rooted in research by The Apprenticescreenwriter (and VF special correspondent) Gabe Sherman. As Sherman explains, Trump and Cohn were such unconventional characters in real life—Trump, a Diet Coke–swilling germaphobe, and Cohn, who loved slathering bacon in cream cheese and kept a stuffed frog collection—that dramatizing them didn’t require much stretching. “Obviously it was a challenge to write the script,” says Sherman. “But I didn’t have to add much flourish to their characters, because the real versions were so interesting.” Ahead, Sherman takes us on a tour of the film’s most colorful moments—explaining the events and accounts that inspired them, and why they were all integral to Trump’s origin story. Yes, Roy Cohn was one of Manhattan’s most premiere power brokers and most ruthless prosecutors. But after meeting Trump in 1979, the lawyer who helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair took such a personal interest in Trump that he interrupted his hardball dealmaking to micromanage Trump’s prenup to his first wife, Ivana. The scene comes about halfway through the film, when Trump still resembles a warm-blooded human. So in love with Ivana is he that Cohn has to essentially splash cold water on his protégé’s face and remind him to protect The first trailer for the Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as the businessman and former U.S. president, has been released. The film follows Trump’s rise to fame and his time learning from influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong. According to the logline, the film is “a dive into the underbelly of the American empire.” Director Ali Abbasi’s feature, written by Gabe Sherman, also stars Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump and Martin Donovan as Fred Trump Sr. The film premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in 1970s America, the film centers around Trump’s relationship with Cohn, who served as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings. Cohn was thrust into the limelight as a prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, leading to their execution in 1953. Producers include Daniel Bekerman for Scythia Films (Canada), Jacob Jarek for Profile Pictures (Denmark), Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde for Tailored Films (Ireland), Abbasi and Louis Tisne for Film Institute (Denmark). Executive producers are Amy Baer, Mark H. Rapaport, Emanuel Nunez, Josh Marks, Grant S. Johnson, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross, Thorsten Schumacher, Niamh Fagan, Sherman, Lee Broda, James Shani, Greg Denny and Andrew Frank. Abbasi most recently directed “Holy Spider,” a crime thriller following a journalist investigating the serial killings of sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad. “The Apprentice” premieres in theaters on Oct. 11. Watch the trailer below. Biographical film about Donald Trump The Apprentice is a 2024 independentbiographicaldrama film that examines Donald Trump's career as a real estate businessman in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, including his relationship with attorney Roy Cohn. Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, the film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Cohn, Martin Donovan as Trump's father Fred, and Maria Bakalova as Trump's first wife, Ivana. An international co-production between Canada, Denmark, Ireland, and the United States, the film was announced in May 2018, but languished until Abbasi, Stan, and Strong joined in 2023. After premiering at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2024, and despite impressing the critics, sparking an eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes, and "feverish media attention" the film struggled to find American distribution due to its subject matter and an attempt by Trump's legal team to block its release.Briarcliff Entertainment eventually bought the rights, and theatrically released it on October 11, 2024. The film grossed $17 million on a $16 million budget. The film received praise from critics for its acting, directing, and editing; Trump, meanwhile, described it as a "defamatory, politically disgusting hatchet job" intended to harm his ultimately successful 2024 presidential campaign. For their performances, Stan and Strong each received nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs for Best Actor and Supporting Actor respectively, with Strong also earning a SAG Award nomination. In 1973, a young Donald Trump, after pointing out various wealthy people to his date, meets Roy Cohn, a contentious lawyer known for prosecuting the Rosenbergs, at a New York City social club. Trump complains that the federal government is investigating his real-estate mogul father, Fred Trump, fo Roy Cohn negotiates Trump’s prenup
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