Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, who play Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in Ali Abbasi's 'The Apprentice,' insist that the controversial biopic doesn't attempt to vilify the former president.
, the upcoming movie about his rise to power, calling it a"concoction of lies that repeatedly defames." However, the film's stars insist they're not trying to vilify the ex-president or his former mentor, Roy Cohn, whose relationship with Trump forms the backbone of the film. ."I don't think the movie attempts to vilify these people. I think it attempts to understand where they came from and how they became who they are.", who plays Trump.
"Our director talked about this: All great movies are a movie about a relationship," Strong notes. "So this is not a political movie. It's a movie about the relationship between these two outsiders who became the ultimate insiders, and these two people striving to understand and command the levers of power using Roy Cohn's playbook of always attack, deny everything, and never admit defeat.
Stan also believes that by better understanding Trump, audiences have an opportunity to learn something about themselves. "Hopefully, this movie leads people towards a reconnection with their own humanity," he says. "I think we have to nurture empathy, and that's at stake now more than ever, it feels like. And the only way to do that is, sometimes, to confront it with its opposite. We have to be aware of the things in the dark as much as we are of the things in the light.
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