The producer of The Apprentice , smeared former President Donald Trump as a totalitarian at the movie’s world premiere Monday at the Cannes Film Festival.
Soon after the screen at the show’s main venue, a evidently excited , Ali Abbasi addressed the crowd of international cinema elites, who eagerly applauded the movie.
” When we did this film, people said, why do you want to make a video about Trump? If you want to show something about the globe, do it in a good way, in a symbolic way”, the chairman said, before adding:  ,” There is no great symbolic way to deal with the rising wave of fascism”.
The crowd loudly cheered his remarks.
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During the 8-minute standing ovation for” The Apprentice,” director Ali Abbasi declares,” There is no nice metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism.” This is the biggest political statement of# Cannes2024 so far. photograph. twitter.com/BGny0agRUW
— Ramin Setoodeh ( @RaminSetoodeh ) May 20, 2024
Sebastian Stan, a member of Disney-Marvel, portrays Trump as a young man who is attempting to change New York and who is influenced by Jeremy Strong’s success ( Succession   ). The movie also portrays Trump’s relationship with his father ( Martin Donovan ) and first wife, Ivana ( Borat 2 actress , Maria Bakalova ).
The Apprentice,  , whose writing credits include journalist Gabriel Sherman,  , does n’t have a U. S. distributor yet. The film was not funded by a Hollywood theater, but rather by a number of foreign businesses as well as private investors.
Ali Abbasi, who was born in  , Iran, rose to prominence with the shows Border and Holy Spider. His second British film is The Apprentice.
Before putting cash down, potential vendors will have to take some of the film’s outrageous and contentious allegations into account. A scene in the movie apparently features Trump raping his family, Ivana.
The winner of The Apprentice‘s Cannes contest is scheduled to be announced on Saturday.
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