WATCH: The controversial Donald Trump & Roy Cohn biopic MAGA doesn’t want you to see
Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump to take the stage tonight in Philadelphia.So, it’s no accident that film distributor Briarcliff Entertainment chose today to release the trailer for their already controversial Trump biopic The Apprentice—you know, something to tide us over!From Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), the film taps frequent Marvel anti-hero Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) to play this real-world villain to democracy, honing in on his early days as a wannabe real estate mogul when he still had his Big Boy Businessman training wheels on.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Now, we know what you’re thinking: “Wait a minute, Sebastian Stan?
Isn’t he incredibly handsome? How can he play someone like Trump?” Well, that’s nothing a bad wig and some subtly frightening makeup can’t fix.
It’s movie magic!Anyway, the crux of The Apprentice is the hate-mongering former president’s unlikely relationship with notorious New York City prosecutor Roy Cohn, here played by Succession star Jeremy Strong.Cohn’s noxious reputation no doubt precedes him.
In the ’50s, he worked alongside Senator Joseph McCarthy to orchestrate the Second Red Scare, a story that was recently revisited in Fellow Travelers, which plainly shows Cohn to be a deeply closeted, self-hating gay man.
