Mongrel Media
It turns out that when you make the film that Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see, everybody wants to see it. At the very least, they want to talk about it. Fight about it. Scream about it. Or, in the case of Trump, threaten to sue about it.
The Apprentice, the film about Trump’s unscrupulous rise as a businessman in the ’70s and ’80s, detonated a fiery global discourse about its controversial scenes and the implications of it being released right before the election. In the crosshairs is director Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), who, following a rapturous reception that caught the ire of the former president at the Venice Film Festival, wasn’t sure the movie would see the light of day in the U.S.
“This has been a very strange sort of strip tease, getting the movie release” he told The Daily Beast’s Obsessed the afternoon after the film’s New York City premiere. “You feel like you’re flirting with it. You’re dancing around it. You’re getting close. And then no, no—you can’t. Then you start over again.”
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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