“The Apprentice” star Sebastian Stan, who portrays a younger Donald Trump within the biopic launched final month, revealed this week his co-stars and different actors have since distanced themselves from the controversial challenge out of concern.
The biographical drama, directed by Ali Abbasi, chronicles the early days of the president-elect when he was a rising Manhattan actual property tycoon within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s. It additionally explores his relationship with lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn, performed within the movie by Emmy-winning “Succession” star Jeremy Sturdy.
Amid the movie’s theatrical rollout in October, Trump trashed the challenge on social media — calling it “a cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job.” He slammed the folks concerned within the movie as “human scum,” and instructed it was strategically “put out right before the 2024 presidential election, to try and hurt the greatest political movement in the history of our country.”
Throughout a Q&A concerning the movie in Los Angeles this week, Stan revealed he wasn’t capable of take part in an upcoming sequence for Selection’s “Actors on Actors,” which options one-on-one conversations between actors discussing their work.
“I couldn’t find another actor to do it with me, because they were too afraid to to go and talk about this movie. So I couldn’t do it,” he stated earlier this week, as seen in a video shared on social media.
“We couldn’t get past the publicists or the people representing them, because [they were] too afraid to talk about this movie,” the 42-year-old added. “And that’s when I think we lose the situation. Because if it really becomes like that — fear or that discomfort to talk about this — then we’re really going to have a problem.”
Selection Co-Editor in Chief Ramin Setoodeh confirmed Stan’s account.
“What Sebastian said is accurate. We invited him to participate in ‘Actors on Actors,’ the biggest franchise of awards season, but other actors didn’t want to pair with him because they didn’t want to talk about Donald Trump,” he stated in a press release to the media.
Regardless of Trump’s scathing assessment, Stan beforehand stated he “should be grateful” the movie depicts him in a “complex, three-dimensional” means, noting those that labored on the challenge weren’t considering “simply vilifying or [demonizing]” the real-life topics of the film.
