Oct
03

Photo/Video: ‘This Morning’ TV show, London, UK (w/ screen captures)

Sebastian and Adam were on ‘This Morning’ in the UK this morning. I’ve added photos, videos and screencaps below. Thanks to Sandra for the assistance. Enjoy.

Oct
03

Photo/Video/Photoshoot: Sebastian Stan for Entertainment Weekly for ‘The Apprentice’ (w/ screen captures)

Hello! There’s been a ton added to the gallery. Entertainment Weekly has done a cover story for ‘The Apprentice’ and I’ve posted all of the videos below as well as screen captures and UHQ/untagged photos of the photoshoot in the gallery, enjoy.





Oct
03

News: The Apprentice star Sebastian Stan explains why he thinks ‘there’s a Trump in all of us’

Entertainment Weekly – “I know that might not be a popular thing to say,” the actor admits to EW for our cover story on the movie.

While The Apprentice attempts to find the humanity in Donald Trump, its star, Sebastian Stan, also believes the film shines a light on the Donald Trump in humanity.

“I think that there’s a Trump in all of us to some extent,” the actor tells Entertainment Weekly for our latest cover story. “I know that might not be a popular thing to say, or people maybe don’t want to admit it.”

And if you feel yourself having a strong reaction to that statement, Stan thinks that may be a sign that “there’s some truth” to what he’s saying.

But first, let him explain.

The Marvel actor stars in the film as the former president before he becomes the famous business mogul and politician he’s known as today. The Apprentice charts Trump’s rise to power through the late ’70s and ’80s as he grew from a wannabe power player to a man synonymous with wealth and success — all thanks to the tutelage of his mentor, the infamous Roy Cohn (played by Jeremy Strong).

By peeling back the layers of both men’s personalities, Stan, Strong, and filmmakers, including visionary director Ali Abbasi and journalist screenwriter Gabriel Sherman, want audiences to come away not only with a better understanding of Trump but also of themselves.

“It’s important for us to explore perhaps the darker elements that live within all of us so that by bringing them into the light, we can understand how to have a better relationship with them rather than suppressing and avoiding and pretending that they’re not there,” Stan explains. “I think that’s where the value is because I don’t think anyone is on a moral high ground.”

And the actor is willing to take his own advice. If there was one Trumpian quality he saw most in himself, it was the politician’s innate need to win at all costs. It’s an urge Stan has had since he immigrated to the United States from Romania at age 12.

“I understood that drive to rise, to overcome at whatever cost, and to win. I understood that simply from my own very, very small, humble beginnings with the American dream,” he says. “We love a winner in this country. It’s a fact that, to me, felt relatable in many ways.”

Still, some critics have taken issue with how the film attempts to empathize with two men whom many don’t believe deserve it. While Abbasi notes that “there is a range between having empathy for someone and having sympathy with someone,” Stan sees value in “normalizing people that we feel strongly about.”

“People feel very strongly about him in two different extremes,” he says. “They think he’s either God’s son or he’s Lucifer incarnate, and I think we need to bring him back down to earth in the hope of understanding.”

More than anything, the actor hopes the film “leads people towards a reconnection with their own humanity,” adding, “We have to have a better, healthier relationship with the beast in all of us.”

Oct
03

News: ‘The Apprentice’s Sebastian Stan Says “There’s A Trump In All Of Us”: “We Need To Bring Him Back Down To Earth In The Hope Of Understanding”

Deadline

Sebastian Stan portrays Donald Trump in the Ali Abbasi-directed film The Apprentice.

In a new interview, the Captain America: The Winter Soldier star talked about humanizing the twice-impeached former president of the United States.

“I think that there’s a Trump in all of us to some extent,” Stan told EW. “I know that might not be a popular thing to say, or people maybe don’t want to admit it.”

The Apprentice, set to be released in U.S. theaters on October 11, follows Trump’s rise to power before becoming a business mogul and politician.

“It’s important for us to explore perhaps the darker elements that live within all of us so that by bringing them into the light, we can understand how to have a better relationship with them rather than suppressing and avoiding and pretending that they’re not there,” Stan said. “I think that’s where the value is because I don’t think anyone is on a moral high ground.”

Stan related to the character he was portraying in the film saying he “understood that drive to rise, to overcome at whatever cost, and to win. I understood that simply from my own very, very small, humble beginnings with the American dream. We love a winner in this country. It’s a fact that, to me, felt relatable in many ways.”

Trump has become a very polarizing figure in politics with his divisive rhetoric, and Stan knows that “people feel very strongly about him in two different extremes.”

“They think he’s either God’s son or he’s Lucifer incarnate, and I think we need to bring him back down to earth in the hope of understanding,” adding he hoped the film led “people towards a reconnection with their own humanity.”

Oct
03

News: Made in America: How polarizing biopic The Apprentice charts Donald Trump’s origin story

Entertainment Weekly – Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong take EW inside the making of a film so controversial, no major Hollywood studio would touch it.

Sebastian Stan didn’t become Donald Trump until the helicopter took off.

Moments earlier, before the rotor blades whirled, director Ali Abbasi was getting nervous. After five years of preparation and delays, the Iranian Danish filmmaker was finally rolling on what would become this year’s most controversial film, the Trump origin story The Apprentice (in theaters Oct. 11). But when he looked at his star sitting across from Jeremy Strong in character as Trump’s notorious mentor, Roy Cohn, he had a sinking feeling something wasn’t right.

“I was looking at them like, ‘Wow, they look weird, man. Is this going to work?'” Abbasi tells Entertainment Weekly a year later, from Copenhagen. “Then the chopper starts lifting, and I’m like, ‘Well, I guess I’m going to find out.'”

Once they were in the air, a transformation occurred that neither Abbasi nor the actors can fully explain. “Suddenly, it started to work,” the director says. “And I thought, ‘If it’s working here, it’s probably going to work on the ground, too.'”

“Until you cross that Rubicon, there’s a certain measure of dread and uncertainty,'” says Strong, sitting next to Stan at their EW cover shoot last month. “So that, compounded with the fact that we were up in the air precariously in a helicopter, being buffeted around by the wind, was a fitting first day.”

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Oct
03

News: See all the photos from Entertainment Weekly’s The Apprentice cover shoot

Entertainment Weekly – Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong peel back the layers on Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, in the year’s most controversial biopic.

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong are pulling back the curtain on Donald Trump’s origin story in this year’s most polarizing film, The Apprentice. The duo go toe-to-toe in visionary director Ali Abbasi’s punk-rock biopic, which charts Trump’s (Stan) rise in the ‘80s from wannabe mogul to global icon — all thanks to his mentor, Roy Cohn (Strong).

In Entertainment Weekly’s cover story on the film, Stan, Strong, Maria Bakalova (who plays Ivana Trump), Abbasi, and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman open up about the challenges they faced, Trump’s legal threats, and releasing the incendiary movie just weeks before the U.S. election. Check out our full cover story for The Apprentice, and see all of EW’s exclusive photos of Stan and Strong below.
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Oct
02

Photo/Video/Audio: A24 Close Up + Sebastian & Adam Pearson on BBC6 Radio (Full Interview)

I’ve added one more ‘A Different Man‘ video interview and screencaps. I’ve also posted the full audio of Sebastian and Adam Pearson on BBC6 radio this morning. Enjoy.



Oct
02

Photos: “A Different Man” Special Screening in London

I’ve added 16 UHQ/Untagged of “A Different Man” Special Screening in London that took place today.

Oct
02

Photo/Video: More ‘A Different Man’ Press Interviews (Academy Originals,Fantastic Fest, Letterboxd) + ‘The Apprentice’ BTS Interview w/ Screen Captures

More ‘A Different Man‘ Press Interviews have been released: Academy Originals,Fantastic Fest, Letterboxd are below to watch. I’ve also added screen captures below as well as video and screen captures from a BTS video for ‘The Apprentice‘.




Oct
02

News: Inside the Fight to Release ‘The Apprentice’

Vanity Fair – The Donald Trump biopic was one of the hottest tickets at Cannes this year. So why did it take months, and a minor miracle, to sell? As the movie finally hits theaters, its screenwriter, VF special correspondent Gabriel Sherman, has some ideas.

On the night of May 20, I stood in my tuxedo inside the storied Auditorium Louis Lumière at Cannes and listened as more than 2,000 people in black tie gave an eight-minute standing ovation for the film I wrote: The Apprentice. The movie is a Frankenstein origin story about Donald Trump, played by Marvel star Sebastian Stan in heavy prosthetics and a golden toupee. It follows Trump as he rises in Manhattan real estate during the gritty 1970s and gaudy ’80s under the tutelage of right-wing lawyer turned fixer Roy Cohn, played with dead-eyed menace by Succession’s Jeremy Strong. The biggest controversy centered on a scene—spoiler alert—that depicted Trump sexually assaulting his first wife, Ivana. (There were audible gasps in the room when it played.) Other scenes showed Trump getting liposuction, undergoing scalp reduction surgery, and popping amphetamine diet pills—details reported in Harry Hurt III’s 1993 Trump biography, Lost Tycoon. (Trump denied the claims at the time.)

The premiere generated headlines worldwide. But during the after-party with views of oligarch-owned yachts anchored in the harbor, I began getting news alerts on my phone: Trump announced he planned to sue to block the movie’s release. “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said. He called the movie “malicious defamation,” “election interference by Hollywood elites,” and said it belonged “in a dumpster fire.” I felt a pit in my stomach as I scrolled the headlines. But I also felt strangely validated. Life was imitating art. Trump’s legal threat followed the first rule Cohn elucidates in the movie: Attack, attack, attack.

Two days later, Trump’s lawyers sent the film’s director Ali Abbasi and me cease-and-desist letters. The legal document sounded like an outtake from an unhinged Trump rally speech: “I demand that you immediately cease and desist distribution and marketing in the United States of the foreign-funded and directed hit piece masquerading as a movie.” It warned Hollywood companies against distributing the movie domestically: “Any person in the United States providing services, including marketing services, publicity, legal services, and public distribution of the movie, must be mindful of the restrictions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”

I hoped the controversy would translate into a deal. Studios and streamers normally compete fiercely to acquire the buzziest titles at Cannes. Two days after our premiere, Netflix reportedly paid approximately $12 million to acquire Emilia Pérez, the genre-bending transgender drug-cartel musical that won the festival’s Jury Prize.

But the specter of Trump’s lawsuit had a chilling effect on would-be buyers. By the time I flew home a week later, no Hollywood company had made an offer to release the movie in the United States.

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