Sebastian Stan stars as Donald Trump, Maria Bakalova plays Ivana Trump, and Jeremy Strong portrays Roy Cohn in the film that opens in theaters on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024
“The Apprentice” explores the relationship between the ruthless attorney Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s. Seen here is Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump. “I think I had the same initial reaction as a lot of people who watch the movie now, which is, I was surprised,” says Abassi, an Iranian-Danish filmmaker making his English-language debut with “The Apprentice.
“The Apprentice” explores the relationship between the ruthless attorney Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s. Director Ali Abbasi, seen here on the set, is an Iranian-Danish filmmaker, making his English-language debut with the film that stars Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.
Outside of that scene, and a few that portray Trump’s vanity over weight gain and hair loss, “The Apprentice” isn’t all that controversial, telling the story of Trump as a young man with big dreams and Cohn as the fixer who helped him until Trump cast off Cohn when he was dying of AIDS. The first half being sort of the ’70s, is more organic,” Abbasi says. “It looks like film looks. We’re in New York and things are going really bad. It has, like, a little bit of a vibe of these movies – maybe reminds you of ‘Taxi Driver,’ maybe reminds you of ‘Dog Day Afternoon.’ There’s some grit and authenticity about that.
Stan dove into research for the role, tracking down clips and documentaries of Trump in the ’70s and ’80s, reading Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” and other books and “a gazillion interviews that were done in that time period with the New York Times and GQ and Playboy.”“The more I looked at it the more universal it was,” Stan says. “There were things about the story that seemed very universally relatable.
“I think the right kind of movies, the right kind of stories … don’t sit there and hand you a manuscript and a map on how you should think, but inspire you and challenge you,” Stan says. “And that’s what I think this movie is trying to do.”Lee Miller photographed WWII. Kate Winslet tells her story in ‘Lee.’
“But what’s the dark side of it?” Bakalova says. “I think that’s what the movie deals with. Are you willing to sacrifice your humanity, your morals, in order to achieve your goals? If you do, how is this going to make you feel? It’s bigger than just these characters, but I found myself fascinated by Ivana’s choices because she’s been, to be completely honest, way much ahead of her time.”“If Donald is the Empire State Building, she wanted to be the Statue of Liberty,” Bakalova says.
“Of course, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic are two different countries and they’ve been through different regimes, yet they share some kind of similar history,” Bakalova says. “Growing up in a place like these places teaches you a lot, teaches you that you can literally count on yourself only, and if you want to succeed in life, you really have to get to work.
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