The first-look clip of Sebastian Stan portraying former US President Donald Trump in “The Apprentice” has been released. Apart from the leading man, we see HBO’s Succession fame, Jeremy Strong, playing Roy Cohn, a prominent prosecutor and lawyer who later became a political fixer in the 1980s in New York City. He also mentored and represented Trump during his early business career.
The clip shows Stan’s Trump and Strong’s Cohn travelling in a car and talking to a female reporter over the telephone about fixing the former’s interview. We also see Trump talking about his intentions of acquiring the Commodore and turning it into “the finest building” in the city, in fact, in the entire world. He also talks about how he wants to convert that building into a first-class hotel. We even hear him saying, “I got flare and I’m smart so I think that’s going to make me successful.” But the moment he talks about staying humble, Cohn takes away the phone from him.
Fresh from turn away crowds and standing ovations at the Cannes and Telluride film festivals, THE APPRENTICE, starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. #TheApprentice is exclusively in theaters October 11. pic.twitter.com/qDjLOhHh9H
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The Apprentice premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, opening to a mixed-to-positive response from critics, who lauded Sebastian Stan’s take on Donald Trump but found the overall film flawed. Critics also lamented the film’s overly simplistic tone instead of going deep into Trump’s exploration.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the upcoming biopic stands with a ‘fresh’ 76% critic score with 46 certified reviews.
Led by Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice stars Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, Martin Donovan as Fred Trump Charlie Carrick as Fred Trump Jr., Mark Rendall as Daniel Sullivan, and Joe Pingue as Anthony Salerno. It is scheduled for a theatrical release on October 11. Stay tuned for more updates.