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Trump movie The Apprentice: ‘I don’t think it is a movie he would dislike,’ says director
Ali Abbasi spoke at Cannes about his controversial new film, which the Trump campaign has said ‘belongs in a dumpster fire’
The film charts the relationship between the young Trump and notorious New York attorney Roy Cohn, who served as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the 1950s “red scare”, and prompted President Eisenhower to ban homosexuals from being employed by the federal government. Named after Trump’s 21st-century TV show, The Apprentice stars Sebastian Stan in the title role, while Succession’s Jeremy Strong plays Cohn, who died from Aids-related complications in 1986. He added: “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.
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