Oct
05

Photo/Video: More ‘A Different Man’ Press Interviews (w/ screencaps)

I’ve added 7 new ‘A Different Man‘ press interviews with screencaps to the gallery. You can watch below from Universal Pictures, Collider, Radio Times, Hits Radio, Curzon, Rotten Tomatoes, and letterboxd again.







Oct
05

Photo/Video: Sebastian on Graham Norton (w/ Screen Captures) (10/04/24)

Sebastian was on Graham Norton Show last night. I’ve added photos, videos and screencaps below. You can watch the show here on the BBC or below. Thanks to Sandra for the assistance. Enjoy.

Oct
04

News: The Apprentice filmmakers on ‘shocking’ struggle to find a buyer: ‘It’s cowardice in the face of Donald Trump’

Entertainment Weekly The Apprentice filmmakers on ‘shocking’ struggle to find a buyer: ‘It’s cowardice in the face of Donald Trump’

For much of the six years it took to make The Apprentice, the filmmakers and actors involved weren’t sure it would ever see the light of day.

But when it finally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, earning an 11-minute standing ovation and positive reviews, director Ali Abbasi felt like his final hurdle — finding a distributor — would soon be behind him. And yet, the major Hollywood studios and streamers weren’t calling.

“It was pretty shocking for me after the reception we got in Cannes,” he admits. “I understand it from the business perspective of not wanting to have trouble, but we’re not in the business of ice creams. We’re not selling shoes. So yeah, it was shocking.”

He knew it wouldn’t be easy. After all, it’s a movie about the makings of Donald Trump, who many consider to be the most controversial, divisive, and litigious man in America. The former president has already threatened to sue the filmmakers, as has his friend, billionaire Dan Snyder, who helped finance the film, reportedly under the false impression that it depicted Trump in a purely positive light.

While the filmmakers believe the well-researched film to be a fair and balanced portrait, The Apprentice is nevertheless full of shocking scenes. Throughout its two-hour runtime, we see the former president taking diet pills, receiving liposuction and having scalp-reduction surgery, and, most incendiary of all, raping his ex-wife Ivana, as she alleged happened in a 1990 divorce deposition, according to one unconfirmed account. (She later denied her initial testimony, saying she felt “violated” but did not mean to be alleging rape “in a literal criminal sense.”)

“Listen, Trump threatens to sue the mailman, so I’m not surprised,” says journalist Gabriel Sherman, who wrote the script. In fact, Sherman says he finds the legal threats “sort of perversely satisfying.” That’s because the film presents Trump as we know him today to be largely a product of his relationship with his mentor, Roy Cohn, who taught the real estate scion three lessons that he has continued to live by: Always attack, deny everything, and never admit defeat.

“He’s basically just doing what Roy Cohn told him to do — he’s attacking,” Sherman explains. “I know how rigorously researched and solid the movie is, so I’m not worried from a legal perspective.”

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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.