Roy Cohn teaches dunce Donald Trump in first The Apprentice trailer
Sebastian Stan plays a young, dumb, but ambitious Donald Trump in a new trailer for The Apprentice, in theaters October 11
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The Apprentice is crashing onto the scene fast with a kind of bad boy reputation already. A Donald Trump-supporting investor tried to get the movie shut down, and the ex-president himself reportedly wanted it buried. Nevertheless, Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice persisted, and the film—starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong—will premiere in theaters October 11, with the help of a Kickstarter campaign meant to extend its theatrical window. For now, the movie is leaning into the sort of punk rock spirit of the situation with an anarchic trailer depicting Trump’s villain origin story, back when he was still unknown enough for someone to ask, “Donald who?”