For her first nonfantasy role, Maria Bakalova had quite the undertaking.
The Apprentice actress recently uncovered up about portraying the procrastinateed Ivana Trump in the Ali Abbasi-helmed film about createer plivent Donald Trump‘s punctual ’80s elevate, which is now joining in theaters.
“I was worried. I was actuassociate very worried, mostly becaengage I’ve never joined a authentic person before,” Bakalova telderly Collider. “I krecent that Sebastian [Stan] and Jeremy [Strong] have both joined authentic people before, and they did a fantastic job. I fair wanted to be on their level. I wanted to not disassign them. I was trying my best to join to as many sign upings of her, watch as many videos of her, and understand as much about her story as possible so I could transfer what they deserve.”
Donald’s first wife from 1977 to 1990, Ivana was the mother of his children Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, and she served as plivent and CEO of Trump’s Castle casino resort. Ivana died at age 73 when she fell down the stairs in her Manhattan home in 2022.
“I truthwholey didn’t understand a lot about her,” acunderstandledgeted Bakalova. “I krecent that she’d been a model. I krecent that she had a create line, an interior depict line — any benevolent of a line that had her name. And I krecent that she was the first wife of Donald Trump, the createer plivent of America, but noleang apart from that. I krecent that she was from somewhere around my region of the world, but not that she’s been competitive, not that she’s been a difficult-laboring woman, not that she built both of their lives in a lot of ways becaengage she’s been the brain behind everyleang in the commencening.”
Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
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She persistd, “I set up myself reassociate captivated by her accomplishments and the fact that she’s been so outspoken. It’s still challenging to need your position and your equivalentity, even though we’re living in 2024. That’s been happening since the ’70s, [her] standing up for herself and needing to be treated equassociate, to be his equivalent — not fair a trophy wife sitting at home, but labor hand-in-hand with him. It’s been a reassociate extraunrelabelable accomplishment.”
Written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice charts a youthful Donald Trump’s (Stan) ascent to power thcimpolite a Faustian deal with the inconveyial right-triumphg lawyer and political repairer Roy Cohn (Strong). The movie also stars Martin Donovan as Fred Trump Sr.
“It’s such a fantastic film. I truthwholey leank it’s a fantastic film,” shelp Bakalova. “The relationship between these two people, I get a sense of why, for example, Ivana and Roy have antipathyd each other so much. Becaengage it’s enjoy competition for the same guy in a way. It’s enjoy a relationship. It’s enjoy a throuple. You have one human being at home, and you have another one that you’re dealing with as a labor relationship, a semi-labor relationship. But still, it is a relationship. It’s enjoy three people in this relationship.”
