Donald Trump is clearly many things, but one thing he’s not is a great orator, according to one of Britain’s great acting knights of the realm, Ian McKellen.
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“What surprised me is how good it is,” says Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro of the Cannes-debuting Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. “You know, there are some people that have tried to ding it and say, ‘Oh, it’s an HBO movie,’” Deadline’s editorial director states from the South of France on today’s ElectionLine podcast. “But let me say this: it’s a very good HBO movie.”
“I just think it’s very well crafted. It has its own voice. What’s interesting is that for a biopic such as this, it gets a lot in there about his life and about the relationship with Roy Cohn,” D’Alessandro added – as you can hear above.
Starring Sebastian Stan as Trump in the 70s and 1980s, Succession vet Jeremy Strong as the infamous and ruthless lawyer Cohn and Borat alum Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, the Ali Abbasi directed flick got an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes earlier this week. Featuring a long alleged sexual assault of Ivana by Trump and other alleged misconduct, The Apprentice also got the threat of a lawsuit from the Trump campaign – a threat that Abbasi laughed off.
D’Alessandro thinks that once the film is released in the U.S. later this year, it will surprise both the MAGA crowd and the Never Trump crowd.
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Donald Trump is clearly many things, but one thing he’s not is a great orator, according to one of Britain’s great acting knights of the realm, Ian McKellen.
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