Sebastian Stan just isn’t fairly completed unloading on former President Donald Trump.
The actor, who performs a younger Trump in director Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” slammed the Republican presidential nominee in a Sunday dialog for The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, marking the newest Trump criticism issued by Stan amid the biopic’s launch.
“There’s people that are going to say, ‘We don’t know what the truth is anymore.’ That’s the problem!” he mentioned at Florida’s Miami Movie Pageant GEMS occasion, including that Trump has “muddled it up so much.”
“You can create your own truth at this point, believe what you want, and that’s what people are doing,” he mentioned.
Stan, a Romanian immigrant who moved to the U.S. at 12 years previous, mentioned that he was partially drawn to the movie as a result of, to him, it’s in regards to the American dream.
“The movie was asking the question, ‘What is the cost?’” Stan mentioned. “And this man [Trump] was sort of a really good example of what can happen as a result when you lose who you are because you are so focused on one thing and that nothing else matters, not even your humanity.”
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“The Apprentice” initially struggled to discover distribution amid threatened authorized motion from Trump’s crew. Briarcliff Entertainment in the end picked up the movie, which was then launched theatrically in October to rave evaluations (and a social media rant from Trump). The film is now garnering Oscar buzz for Stan and co-star Jeremy Sturdy, who portrays late Trump fixer Roy Cohn.
Stan instructed Sunday that cinema may make extra of a distinction in shaping individuals’s views on Trump than, say, exhausting each day information experiences about the Republican’s antics.
“It’s the experience of being with this person for two hours, and seeing where he’s coming from,” mentioned Stan, “and really asking yourself at the end of this film, ‘Do you trust this person? Do you really trust that this guy is going to make a decision that’s going to be good for you or good for him?’”
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He added: “There is one paranoid, scared little man that’s still out there fighting the good fight to get into the membership club of Manhattan and be put on a plaque on a wall. He ain’t caring about your situation. It’s that he’s got to get there first.”
Learn extra on Stan at The Hollywood Reporter.
