Is the Apprentice Movie Fired?
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Apprentice, starring Captain America’s Sebastian Stan and Succession’s Jeremy Strong, was financed in part by the widely-loathed former-Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder. But after the movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Trump’s attorneys sent cease-and-desist letters to the filmmakers—and Snyder seems to be using veto power on an American sale of the rights. Will this controversial cut of the film ever play on the big screen in the States?
Guest: Jake Lahut, political reporter at the Daily Beast, covering Republican campaigns.
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| 0:00.0 | Jake Leut is a political reporter over the Daily Beast. |
| 0:09.8 | So when he first heard about the apprentice, the new biopic about Donald Trump, it was a rumor, a passing thought, something he wasn't sure he was going to be hearing much more about. |
| 0:21.0 | I first heard about it from, I think it was someone on a campaign like before Iowa. |
| 0:27.4 | On the Trump campaign? |
| 0:28.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.4 | Were they psyched about it or were they scared of it? |
| 0:31.8 | Like did that, how, how is it presented to you? |
| 0:34.0 | It was presented to me as more of like just kind of an inconvenience |
| 0:37.6 | and like some stuff they had to deal with, you know? |
| 0:40.1 | Over the last few months Jake has learned more about this movie. |
| 0:47.0 | It's got a rising young director, Ali Abassi. |
| 0:50.0 | Its stars are from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and prestige television. |
| 0:56.0 | Successions Jeremy Strong plays Donald Trump's mentor, mob lawyer Roy Cohn. |
| 1:02.0 | In this movie you see, it's Trump, who's the apprentice. |
| 1:06.4 | And it appears that the movie's, you know, basic premise is, |
| 1:10.3 | but for Roy Cohn, |
| 1:12.2 | Donald Trump would not be this way. |
| 1:14.1 | Is it a villain origin story? |
| 1:16.1 | Oh yes, it's basically how Trump gets a taste of power |
| 1:21.2 | and learns, you know learns how you can get your way in 1970s, 1980s, New York through, you know, |
| 1:28.9 | lying, bluster, below the bell tactics and it sort of teaches in this you know new morality code so to speak |
| 1:36.0 | morality maybe in air quotes yeah then last month came the Khan film festival |
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