Sebastian Stan on Dec. 4, 2023; Donald Trump in 1982.Photo:Patriot Pics / BACKGRID; Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty
Patriot Pics / BACKGRID; Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty
Sebastian Stanhas transformed intoDonald Trump.
On Monday, Stan, 41, was seen for the first time on set and in costume as a younger version of Trump, now 77, in an upcoming movie reportedly centered around Trump’s business in New York City during the 1970s and ’80s,titledThe Apprentice.
Stan could be seen wearing a suit, tie and long black coat as he sat on a bench while donning a wig. The actor was also seen eating what appeared to be a fast food burger, in a nod to the former president’swell-documented love for fast food.
Ali Abbasi, who worked as a director on HBO’sThe Last of Usand made 2022’sHoly Spider, is directing Stan in the new movie.Succession’sJeremy Strongwill play lawyer and prosecutor Roy Cohn, andBorat 2’sMaria Bakalovais set to play the former president’s first wifeIvana Trump, asmultipleoutletsreportedlast week.
Sebastian Stan filming in Toronto on Dec. 4, 2023.Patriot Pics / BACKGRID
Patriot Pics / BACKGRID
An official logline for the movie saysThe Apprenticeis “an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit.”
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Gabriel Sherman, an author and reporter known for his 2017 bookThe Loudest Voice in the Room, a biography of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, wrote the movie.
Sebastian Stan.John Shearer/Getty
Cohn, the late prosecutor and attorney whom Strong will play in the movie, was known for his work with 1950s-era U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy on various anti-communism investigations within the federal government, commonly known as “McCarthyism.”
Cohn went on to work as a lawyer in New York City and counted Trump as one of his clients until his death at 59 in 1986, per aVanity Fairfeature on the pair’s relationship.
Ivana, whom Bakalova, 27, is reportedly playing, married Donald in 1977. The pair had three children,Donald Jr.,IvankaandEric, before theirdivorce in the 1990s. Ivanadied in 2022at age 73.
source: people.com