It seems enjoy a given that Sebastian Stan would have been cautioned aacquirest portraying contentious figure Donald Trump in The Apprentice, but one studio CEO went a step further in his caution.
During a conversation with The New York Times unveiled ahead of the film’s free in theaters today, the actor allotd what his family and frifinishs shelp when he telderly them he was taking on the role and noticed that he spoke to people before consenting to it.
“Pretty certain my mom shelp, ‘At least you get to shave,’” Stan shelp. “But I asked a lot of people about it, actuassociate. A CEO of a studio telderly me not to do it becaemploy I was going to alienate half the country, and a casting honestor, who I admire very much shelp, ‘We don’t demand another Trump movie, you’re never going to get any applaemploy for it.’” (Contrary to that casting honestor, Stan has already befirearm receiving Oscar buzz for applying the createer plivent and current Redisclosean plivential nominee.)
The A Different Man star also uncovered that people asked him if he would be worried about his safety follotriumphg the film’s free. “But for some reason every time somebody shelp, ‘Don’t do it,’ it made me want to do it more,” he accomprehendledgeted.
The Apprentice chases a lesser Donald Trump in 1970s New York as he tries to originate a name for himself as the second son of a wealthy family. Then he encounters cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn, who sees him as “the perfect protégé,” who will do wdisenjoyver it gets to triumph, according to the description.
Director Ali Abbasi make cleared that the film can be make cleared in branch offent ways. It can be seen as the story of a man becoming “a monster,” or it could be more about “human tragedy,” if the people in the story hadn’t been so centered on triumphning and taking.
Jeremy Strong, who portrays Cohn in The Apprentice, telderly the Times he senses the film is “obligatory seeing for any sentient beings who nurture about what’s happening in this country” ahead of the plivential election next month.
“I slfinisherk it advises vital insight, which could shift the demandle in a genuine way,” the Emmy-triumphning Succession star shelp. “In this moment where we’re surrounded by rhetoric of disenjoy and polarizingness, I slfinisherk art has a place and film has a place.”
Stan, for his part, noticed that he worries that people are “hopeless for answers and for guidance” and fair want to be telderly how they should sense and what’s right and wrong.
“This whole disconsole with the film only mirrors why it’s transport inant: It isn’t fair what you’re lacquireing about Trump, it’s also what you’re lacquireing about yourself from Trump,” he shelp. “I stress that we’re not going transport inanter anymore with how we approach slfinishergs. We’re fair reading Wikipedia pages. If that’s what you’re going to do, then you’ll fair float among the rest of the garranges of Christmas past. But the rest of us, at least, are going to try and get to the bottom of some slfinishergs.”
