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The Apprentice actor Sebastian Stan says Hollywood stars are ‘afraid’ of Trump

None of his peers would appear with him on a chatshow the actor claimed, setting an ominous precedent for the industry’s interactions with Trump after he comes into power

Sebastian Stan, who stars in The Apprentice, a biopic of Donald Trump focusing on his association in the 1970s with lawyer Roy Cohn, has said that other actors in Hollywood are too “afraid” of the president-elect to participate in press with him. Trump called the biopic, which features a scene in which he rapes his ex-wife, Ivana, a “cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job” ahead of its release in the US, adding that it was “fake and classless” and took particular issue with its director and screenwriter. Writing on Truth Social, Trump said: “So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a Political Movement, which is far bigger than any of us.

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