Days after its official theatrical release date was announced, a first look at the bombshell Donald Trump biopic has dropped.
California-based independent distributor Briarcliff Entertainment unveiled the clip from The Apprentice on Tuesday. In the scene, Succession star Jeremy Strong, as Trump’s early mentor Roy Cohn, coaches Sebastian Stan’s young Trump in the back of a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce while on the phone with a journalist.
“About a hundred reporters were crawling up my a– to get this interview and I gave you the exclusive,” Cohn says on the phone before handing it over to Trump.
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The film includes a look into some of his real estate ventures.
After the reporter asks the New York City real estate mogul what he plans on doing now that he’s settled a racial discrimination lawsuit, Trump responds: “Well, I intend to acquire the Commodore [Hotel].”
“I’m planning on making it the best and the finest building in the city — maybe the country,” he adds before Cohn redirects him to go bigger. “It’s gonna be the finest building in the world; it’s gonna be a spectacular hotel, absolutely spectacular, first class.”
Audiences can see the movie starting next month.
Directed by Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice — which is set in New York City during the 1970s and ’80s — premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May. It’s scheduled to hit movie theaters in the US on October 11.
Already earning a 77% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, the controversial movie also stars Oscar-nominated actress Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife, Ivana — who claimed in her 1990 divorce deposition that he once raped her during their marriage. That alleged incident is dramatized in the film.
-by Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News (TNS)
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