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'I had to find a way to introduce him in a way that I felt hadn't been introduced yet.'
The Big Picture Known worldwide as Bucky Barnes in seven Marvel pictures, Sebastian Stan wowed festival audiences by showcasing himself as one of this year’s most intriguing, noteworthy character actors. First in Aaron Schimberg’s stirring A Different Man, and now as one of the most recognized faces on the planet, Donald J. Trump in the provocative upcoming biopic, The Apprentice. The movie also stars Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump and Martin Donovan as Fred Trump.
SEBASTIAN STAN: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Ali and our incredible DP, Kasper Tuxen, were really aligned on this vision of making the film feel very energetic, raw, real. They were both very influenced by Lars von Trier in terms of the editing and so on. They were constantly talking about that. But I also feel Ali was trying to capture a very gritty New York of the time that maybe you can find in Sidney Lumet movies tonally.
Obviously, when you're playing a real person — and especially when you're playing him — you have to make a choice about a certain degree of things that you're going to take on in an organic way that is not a caricature but that is recognizable to the person. He speaks a certain way, he gesticulates, he has a body language, he has expressions, he has a way he carries himself into the room. I watched that very much. Those evolved over time.
STAN: It was exciting. I think you always want a really dedicated sparring partner. We went into this as committed as possible. I only felt elevated by him because I knew how prepared he was gonna be, and that made me wanna be as prepared as I could be. Because we were doing these scenes, and we were improvising in the scenes, Ali was giving us different directions take-to-take. The camera was consistently moving take-to-take. There were no marks on the floor. There were no set rehearsals.
The Complexities and Moral Grayness of Donald Trump and Roy Cohn "It's not so simple to just go, 'Oh, this is a horrible person.'" With Roy and Donald's relationship, this is a little bit like Frankenstein, in which the creator loses control of the creation. Can you talk about that aspect and about that relationship? Roy was a terrible person, but he loved America. What's happened with Trump, I'm sure he would be turning over in his grave.
It's not so simple to just go, “Oh, this is a horrible person.” It's not so simple to be like, “Well, he did incredible things.” Well, guess what? There were great ideas he did have. Donald Trump had great ideas towards New York City at the time — for what he was pursuing and what he was offering. There were many people who celebrated him. It's not this or that. It's much more gray and complex. I think we have to pick apart these things.
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