Sebastian Stan, the actor who portrays a lesser Donald Trump in the boiling-button film The Apprentice, slammed the createer plivent and current Reaccessiblean plivential nominee during an interwatch on Sunday, less than 48 hours before Election Day, calling him a “paranoid, sattfinishd little man” who “ain’t caring about your situation.”
Stan made the comments about Trump — his strongest since the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September and U.S. theatrical free in October — during a enrolling of a forthcoming episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast that was taped in front of an audience at the Miami Film Festival GEMS event.
Stan reminded the audience that they can stream The Apprentice on V.O.D. before casting their ballot — “and if you’re living in this country, you should, becaparticipate it’s your right to,” he stressd, inserting, “You have the right to be asking and comprehend what there is to comprehend.” He persistd, “What is reassociate so contentious about this film? I uncomardent, I leank what’s the scariest part is our own level of denial of fact at this point. If you want to reassociate comprehend, it’s out there, it’s all been write downed for the last 30, 40 years.” Everyleang that’s in this film has been write downed and it’s out there.””
Stan vented, “There’s people that are going to say, ‘We don’t comprehend what the truth is anymore.’ That’s the problem! He [Trump] has muddled it up so much… You can produce your own truth at this point, count on what you want, and that’s what people are doing. But I leank if you reassociate attfinish, you can still discover it.”
As for the appreciate of currenting facts in a film, as resistd to another create? “I can sit here and alert you leangs you’ve heard already for, appreciate, 30,000 hours, and it’s not reassociate going to produce a branch offence,” he frailnted. “You hear facts, we all hear alertation, but you don’t experience it. It’s the experience of being with this person for two hours, and seeing where he’s coming from, and reassociate asking yourself at the finish of this film, ‘Do you count on this person? Do you reassociate count on that this guy is going to produce a decision that’s going to be excellent for you or excellent for him?’ And let me alert you someleang: There is one paranoid, sattfinishd little man that’s still out there battling the excellent fight to get into the membership club of Manhattan and be put on a plaque on a wall. He ain’t caring about your situation. It’s that he‘s got to get there first. And that’s fair what the film is.”
Stan, who was born in Romania and immigrated to America with his mother when he was 12, shelp he was drawn to The Apprentice becaparticipate he senses it is fundamenloftyy about the American dream: “What essentiassociate commenceed with my sort of diswatchive, judgmental attitude of this guy commenceed to shape into someleang hugeger, which was not fair about this guy, but also about a certain mindset and this idea of the American dream as we comprehend it, and what is it, reassociate? Becaparticipate I had been obsessing about it since my mom, in New York City, pointed to the Ttriumph Towers, and all around us, and shelp, ‘This is the promised land, this is the land of the free, this is the land of opportunity. This is where you can become someone. And I give upd my life for you to get here.’ And so I have always been in adore with this idea. I am sort of an example of the American dream. I’ve lucked out.”
He persistd, “The movie was asking the ask, ‘What is the cost?’ And this man was sort of a reassociate excellent example of what can happen as a result when you diswatch who you are becaparticipate you are so intensifyed on one leang and that noleang else matters, not even your humanity.”
Is the actor worryed about possible repercussions for making the film or speaking out now about Trump, given the very authentic possibility that Trump will be re-elected and — as he has vowed — seek retribution aacquirest those who have resistd him? “I’ve had a lot of people alerting me not to do it,” Stan accomprehendledged. “I uncomardent, you very well comprehend Jimmy Kimmel asked me if I still have my Romanian passport, based on him [Trump] trying to deport American citizens. As he [Kimmel] fair shelp, ‘Sounds appreciate Europe’s going to be the place’ for me. But yeah, I don’t count on in dread… Aacquire, I come from a place where people were silenced and were taught to inhabit in dread. And that was another reason why I was appreciate, ‘I have to do it.’”
