Sebastian Stan labored laborious to hold Donald Trump out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor stated this week he struggled to drop mannerisms he realized whereas enjoying the previous president in The Apprentice when he arrived on set of the MCU’s Thunderbolts.
Stan performs Trump in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, set for launch Oct. 11. The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney referred to as the efficiency “excellent,” saying the actor goes “beyond impersonation to capture the essence” of Trump.
In Thunderbolts, set for launch in Could 2025, Stan will reprise his position as Bucky Barnes, The Winter Soldier.
“I went off to Marvel after [The Apprentice],” Stan stated in an interview with British GQ. “And we were doing scenes, and I would do something, a thing or two, and be like, ‘Fuck! This is still living somewhere.’”
Stan additionally shared his routine for gaining weight on The Apprentice: ingesting Coca-Colas and consuming a number of peanut butter and jam sandwiches. The consequence labored for moving into character as a younger Donald Trump, however made the transformation again into superhero for Thunderbolts fairly difficult. Plus, filming for each films was affected by the writers and actors strikes, which meant Stan went intervals of gaining and reducing weight just for filming schedules to be postponed or modified.
“I’m fuckin’ 41,” Stan stated of the back-and-forth. “I just worked pretty hard to get in shape here!”
