Pief Weyman
As word spread via countless headlines in recent weeks that The Apprentice is the film that Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see, suffice it to say that curiosity was piqued: What’s in it that’s so bad that he doesn’t want us to see it???
The saying is true: All press really is good press, something that Trump and his camp should know but may have briefly forgotten when they reacted to the Venice Film Festival premiere of the biopic last month by condemning it as “election interference by Hollywood elites” that belonged “in a dumpster fire” and threatening a lawsuit to block its release. I can speak for myself and for the exhausting number of people in my life who have screamed “HAVE YOU SEEN IT?!?!” into my face over the last few weeks when I say that such censuring of the film only intensified the desire to see it.
I spoke with The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi earlier this week. He admitted that he’s “obviously not naive” and knew that some choice scenes in the film would be controversial. But he also was adamant that this is not a hit piece with a pointed political agenda, as it’s been accused of in its release just weeks before the presidential election. He said that, if he watches the film, Trump “would instinctively see the difference between this and many other pieces that have been trying to be for or against him in a partisan or political way.”
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