“It Shouldn’t Be Controversial”: Inside The Apprentice’s Tough New York City Launch
Vivian LankoBy OK McCausland.
After the first New York audiences saw the film, VFeditor-in-chief of, Radhika Jones, lead a Q&A with those involved in the production, including actors Martin Donovan, who plays Trump’s father. Decades ago, he revealed, he also worked briefly as a waiter at Trump Tower, although he never laid eyes on its name.
The audience included both press and celebrities, incl Laverne Cox And Anne Hathaway. The latter chuckled after her close friend Strong compared the above work Apprentice ARRIVE “Philippe Petit walk over [World] Trade Center on the Wire,” referring to “the level of risk involved and the severity with which you can crash and burn,” which he noted were aspects of the project that “attracted us I aim for it.”
In addition to Cohen, at least one other former Trump henchman was also drawn to the film. Right before the launch, Roger Rock tweeted that Strong’s portrait of his old friend Cohn “is uncanny in its accuracy.” (For what it’s worth, Stone hasn’t commented on his own presence in the film, which includes a scene in which a Speedo-clad Stone refills Cohn’s cocktails as the older lawyer roasts on a tanning bed.) “Regardless of your partisan background. is that people are finding the humanity in these characters,” Sherman said from the stage.
As an Iranian of Danish descent, Abassi has an outsider’s view of the American political system. “When you’re in the Middle East, it’s almost like you’re living downstream from this palace and the sewage flows through where you live,” the director explained in a Q&A. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an environmentally conscious king—the damn thing is going down there anyway…. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Democratic president or a Republican president — either way, we’re going to have a hard time.”
