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Maria Bakalova Wanted To Portray Ivana Trump As “Not Just A Trophy Wife” In ‘The Apprentice’


In 'The Apprentice', which is now in theaters, Sebastian Stan and Maria Bakalova play a young Donald and Ivana Trump at the dawn of his career.

“I knew that Sebastian [Stan] and Jeremy [Strong] have both played real people before, and they did a great job. I knew that she was from somewhere around my region of the world, but not that she’s been competitive, not that she’s been a hard-working woman, not that she built both of their lives in a lot of ways because she’s been the brain behind everything in the beginning.” Written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice charts a young Donald Trump’s (Stan) ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (Strong).

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