The first clip of former President Donald Trump’s biopic, The Apprentice, shows the former president being coached by lawyer Roy Cohn.
The clip shows Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong, pushing a young Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, to adopt the confidence and mannerisms he’s now known for. Cohn can be seen urging Trump to be more hyperbolic, pushing him to go from describing one of his buildings as the best “in the city” to the best in “the world.”
The clip is tinged with a comedic atmosphere, hinting at a lighter-hearted tone of the film.
After some searching and controversy, The Apprentice finally found a distributor and will hit theaters on Oct. 11, less than a month before Election Day. The Trump campaign has strongly objected to the film, which portrays parts of his life and his relationship with his first wife, Ivana Trump, and Cohn, as slanderous.
“We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to the Hill in May. “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked. As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.”
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“This ‘film’ is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store, it belongs in a dumpster fire,” Cheung continued.
Though earning a standing ovation, the film earned just one nomination and failed to win any awards at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
