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From The Apprentice to It’s A Sin: the making of heroes and villains in screen depictions of Aids

Culturally, we are in the middle of an Aids “memory boom” as film and television creatives turn to stories from the terrifying crisis that began in the early 1980s. In the last few years we have seen the huge success of dramas like It’s A Sin and Pose, which explore…

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The Apprentice: Trump biopic is riddled with perfect examples of a man with the ‘dark triad’ of personality traits

The Apprentice is a thought-provoking and chilling film that depicts a young Donald Trump on his journey from naive, malleable, nepo-baby to cold, dark and narcissistic businessman. During the film, Trump, meets his mentor and father figure, Roy Cohn. Cohn shapes his young apprentice (reminiscent of Palpatine and a young…

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But is it art? Unpacking ‘The Apprentice’ - Roll Call

For many film buffs, October is Scary Movie Month, when we go to the vault to watch “Last House on the Left” or head to the theater to catch “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” It is also election season. So does “The Apprentice” fit in here? It’s a biopic about the relationship between…

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BFI London Film Festival 2024 – a cinema academic’s look at the year ahead on the big screen

This year’s London Film Festival boasted 254 feature and short films, with an all-time high of 44% of the films screened by female and non-binary directors. But the festival’s most newsworthy event concerned a film that wasn’t screened at all.

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Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story

Controversial drama The Apprentice has bombed stateside but it’s attracting bigger audiences in other parts of the world

The Guardian - US

The Apprentice review – Jeremy Strong is the Trump card in measured biopic of the Donald

The Succession star chills as US lawyer Roy Cohn opposite Sebastian Stan as his grasping protege Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s intriguing drama

The Guardian - UK

Sebastian Stan's controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice was never intended to be political, according to the film's team

Big Screen Spotlight | The filmmakers behind The Apprentice explain why it was written as a "love story" instead of a political one

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A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet

Trump’s planned rally at Madison Square Garden will be the ultimate act of ego and the climax of his Hitlerian rhetoric

The Guardian - US

‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but read the book if you really want to know all about him

Lucky Loser reveals just how much Donald owes to his father (spoiler alert: everything), says the Guardian journalist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump tried to block this movie from release – but The Apprentice isn’t worth the fuss

The man himself may have ranted online about Ali Abbasi’s biopic – starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong – but little here proves revelatory

The Independent UK

The Apprentice: released so close to the polls, this Trump biopic is inevitably political

The Apprentice – a new film dramatising Donald Trump’s business career during the 1970s and 80s – is the latest in a presidential election full of controversy.

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Sebastian Stan says ‘complex’ Trump should be ‘grateful’ for how he’s portrayed in controversial biopic

Stan, who plays Trump in the film, believes they have handed him a ‘very complex, three-dimensional take on his life’

The Independent UK

OPINION - Donald Trump is not only more reckless, but increasingly unmoored from reality

Trump's campaign is growing detached from reality, as 'The Apprentice' biopic offers an insightful look into his early influences

Evening Standard

Jeremy Strong doesn't miss "Succession"

Strong says that his character's "tortured mindset" would sometimes cause him to lose touch with joy

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Trump’s lie-industrial complex

Real time fact-checking has gotten under Trump's skin this time around

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump pens 1am screed against controversial biopic The Apprentice

Former president calls film about his rise in real estate in 1970s and 80s a ‘politically disgusting hatchet job’

The Independent UK

Succession star gives update on potential spin-off after describing mental trauma of playing character

Jeremy Strong said that he had to ‘rediscovered play’ after years of portraying Kendall Roy

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The Apprentice 'narrowly escaped censorship', according to actor Jeremy Strong

‘The Apprentice’ “narrowly escaped censorship”, according to Jeremy Strong, who stars in the Donald Trump biopic.

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The Independent UK

Trump’s ghostwriter says ‘The Apprentice’ bio-pic gets ‘most things’ right

Tony Schwartz says ‘central warning’ from The Apprentice is that the former president is ‘the same person today that he was as a child’

The Independent UK

Does The Apprentice tell Donald Trump’s true story? The most controversial scenes explained

The former president has dismissed Ali Abbasi’s film as ‘pure fiction’. Kevin E G Perry explores if that’s really true

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Sebastian Stan And Jeremy Strong Shine In 'The Apprentice'

Explore the controversial film 'The Apprentice' portraying Trump and Cohn, with authentic performances by Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan.

The Independent UK

The making of 'The Apprentice,' in their words

Few movies this year have made as many headlines as “The Apprentice.”

The Independent UK

Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan know the risks with 'The Apprentice'

Even in an election year, most seem to agree on one aspect about Ali Abbasi’s much-debated Donald Trump film “The Apprentice”: Sebastian Stan is a remarkably good Trump and Jeremy Strong is chillingly riveting as the New York power broker Roy Cohn

The Independent UK

Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on 'The Apprentice': 'We're way out on a limb'

The Times of India

Sebastian Stan on transformation into Donald Trump for 'The Apprentice': I was listening and watching him non-stop

Actor Sebastian Stan has opened up about the intense preparation that went into playing a young Donald Trump in the upcoming film 'The Apprentice'. The film, which delves into Trump’s rise in New York's cutthroat real estate world, is already being touted as one of 2024’s most anticipated non-biopics.

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