PORTRAIT – In The Apprentice, in theaters on Wednesday October 9, the actor retraces the young years of the American billionaire. This portrait ulcerates the presidential candidate camp. Meeting with a chameleon.
Ex-dangerous hunk from teen series Gossip Girlbest friend of the valiant Captain America of the Avengersnothing predisposed Sebastian Stan to portray one of the most divisive figures of the 21ste century. Yet the 42-year-old Romanian-American actor is a stunningly young, and sometimes touching, Donald Trump in The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi (The Nights of Mashhad), in theaters October 9. He is as dark, athletic and cautious in his speech as the former American president is blond, flabby and outrageous. Same steady, almost shuffling gait. Same verbal flow. Same upturned lips that spit out consonants. Up to the waist which gets thicker over the years: Sebastian Stan allowed himself to gain 7 kilos.
Presented in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival, the film chronicles Donald Trump’s formative years at the hands of formidable conservative lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong, dazzling in Succession), clumsy daddy’s boy…
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