Ali Abbasi sees The Apprentice as a study in naked ambition. But his subject isn’t the only one who’s not happy.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Ali Abbasi doesn’t want to play down the physical transformation of his two male leads in– Marvel regular Sebastian Stan almost unrecognisable as a very recognisable Donald Trump, ands Jeremy Strong seeming to waste away before our eyes as lawyer and kingmaker Roy Cohn as he succumbs to AIDS. But he wants to call out something else, too.
Jeremy Strong, left, as Roy Cohn, the lawyer who takes a young Donald Trump under his wing and grooms him.starts in the mid-1970s, with New York at its lowest ebb, riddled with crime and violence, crippled by debt. Young Donald is collecting rent for his father Fred , a brute of a man. Donald is a callow, cowering youth who just wants his daddy to take him seriously.
For some observers, a little sympathy for the devil will be too much. But Abbasi insists he’s just trying to paint a picture of a character, not take sides. “The deposition says he pulled her hair out, among other things,” says Abbasi. He didn’t include that because, he says, “there is a limit to how graphic and how crazy I want this to be, how uncomfortable I want the audience to feel. As a filmmaker, I also thought, ‘What is the point of this scene?’ This is not a movie about rapists; the climax of the movie is not there.
What complicates matters is that just as Hurt’s book was about to go to print in 1993, Trump’s lawyers provided a statement from Ivana, which the publisher included as “Notice to Reader” on the first page of the book, in which she claimed she didn’t want her use of the word rape “to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense”. The publisher added, however, that this new statement “does not contradict or invalidate any information contained in this book”.
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