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Donald Trump Origin Tale ‘The Apprentice’ Gets 11-Minute Ovation At Its Cannes World Premiere


Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, a Donald Trump origin story of sorts, world premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20.

The Trumps were on the red carpet this evening at the Cannes Film Festival — sort of — as Ali Abbasi ’s The Apprentice world premiered in competition. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jeremy Strong also stars as infamous attorney Roy Cohn, and Martin Donovan is playing Fred Trump. An exploration of power and ambition, and set in a world of corruption and deceit, The Apprentice examines Trump’s efforts to build his real estate business in New York in the 1970s and 80s, also digging into his relationship with Cohn.

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