'The Apprentice' which stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump stunned the Cannes Film Festival during its highly anticipated premiere. The film explores Trump's rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand rightwing attorney Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong. During the movie's press conference at the festival, filmmaker Ali Abbasi responded to the Trump campaign's threat to sue over the film.
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00:00 The Apprentice, which stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, stunned the Cannes Film Festival during its highly anticipated premiere.
00:07 The movie explores Trump's rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand right-wing attorney Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.
00:16 Several shocking moments late in the film drew an audible gasp from the Cannes premiere crowd, including a scene depicting Trump's alleged sexual assault of his first wife, Ivana, and a surgery room sequence showing Trump getting liposuction.
00:29 Following the screening, the Cannes crowd gave the film a nearly eight-minute standing ovation.
00:33 During the movie's press conference at the festival, filmmaker Ali Abasi responded to the Trump campaign's threat to sue.
00:39 The team behind the film says they encouraged the Trump campaign to actually see the movie.
00:51 The director also shared what he thinks Trump would think of the film.
00:54 "I think he would be surprised, you know? And I, you know, like I said before, like, I would be happy, I would offer him to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening and have a chat afterwards."
01:09 As for the reviews so far, critics are praising Strong and Stan for their performances, with The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney calling them both "superb."
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