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‘Apprentice’ Star Jeremy Strong Says Donald Trump Film Is a ‘Frankenstein Movie’: ‘It’s About the Creation of a Monster by Another Monster’
'The Apprentice' Jeremy Strong calls the new Donald Trump film a 'Frankenstein movie.'
If you’ve seen any publicity for “ The Apprentice ” — the controversial new biopic about a young Donald Trump ’s tutelage under the ruthless Roy Cohn — then you know the party line, hocked in one interview after another by the film’s cast: The movie took seven years to make; nearly didn’t happen three times; narrowly escaped a cease and desist from Trump’s legal team; and now, less than four weeks before Election Day, premieres by happenstance at a serendipitous moment for the country and election. In the dimly lit basement of the Dramatists Guild of America — not nearly the glamorous movie premiere Trump would want for himself — Abbasi thrusted around the small red carpet like a loose cannon in a leather jacket. “But the problem is: We’re dealing with a very complicated, flawed justice system in the United States, where you can bury anyone if you have enough money, legal firepower and lawyers,” he continued, sounding not unlike his subject.
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