Sebastian Stan Scolds “Hypocrite” Trump at ‘The Apprentice’ U.K. Premiere: “Do You Really Trust This Person to Lead a Country?”

Sebastian Stan has branded former U.S. president Donald Trump a hypocrite who has tried to “censor” his new film, The Apprentice.

The Marvel actor spoke at the BFI London Movie Pageant premiere of Ali Abbasi’s film about Trump’s rise to energy in Seventies and ’80s New York — by which he stars as the actual property mogul-turned-Republican politician — with the teachings of mentor Roy Cohn (performed by Jeremy Robust) guiding him on his ascension.

The forged and crew, together with Stan, Robust, Abbasi and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman, appeared on the purple carpet at the BFI’s Royal Pageant Corridor within the U.Ok. capital.

When requested whether or not this movie debuting so shut to the U.S. election might sway voters, Stan advised The Hollywood Reporter: “I don’t know, but what I do hope is that people, regardless of their opinion, are curious enough to try to dig deeper. Because I think we’re living in a world where it’s so easy to be handed an opinion everywhere you turn. And I know a lot of people love social media, and that’s where they go for information and for things. You’re being told what to think. You’re being told what to do.”

However, the Marvel star continued, “If you have any inkling of interest, go and really ask yourself: ‘Who is this man? Do you really know? Do you really trust this person to lead a country?’ He’s been trying to censor this movie, and at the same time, he claims that he acknowledges free speech … I can’t think of anything more hypocritical. So at the end of the day, it’s about him as a character. Forget the politics and just go in there and use your instinct and ask yourself: Do you trust this man? That’s what the movie is about.”

The function movie opened in roughly 1,700 theaters throughout the U.S. final weekend after its debut in Cannes and pulled in an anemic $1.6 million in its first weekend. Trump lashed out towards the movie after the numbers got here in.

“A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully “bomb.” It’s a low-cost, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out proper earlier than the 2024 Presidential Election, to try to harm the Best Political Motion within the Historical past of our Nation,” Trump wrote in a publish on Fact Social.

Sherman advised THR: “It’s not surprising [that Trump lashed out]… You’ve seen the film, the first lesson that Roy Cohn teaches him is: attack, attack, attack. So Trump hasn’t seen the movie, but he’s clearly following the rules that are in the movie.”

Sherman additionally stated a part of the inspiration for this movie was to present Trump as carrying on Cohn’s legacy, as sources who labored on the 2016 Trump marketing campaign advised him the businessman was simply “using Roy’s lessons.”

The Apprentice acquired rave evaluations and an 8-minute standing ovation after its Cannes Movie Pageant premiere in Might.