The real Donald Trump eventhreatened to suethe filmmakers over what his campaign called pure fiction.

Is this going to work?'

Yet in that moment, Abbasi saw his movie come together before his eyes.

Sebastian Stan in the Apprentice; Photograph dated 1982 of Donald John Trump

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“Suddenly, it started to work,” he recalled.

I went off to Marvel after [The Apprentice], Stan explained.

This is still living somewhere.

THE APPRENTICE, Jeremy Strong; Roy Cohn attends Pia Zadora Party on September 6, 1983

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He died from complications of AIDS in 1986 at age 59.

He also theorized that “If [Trump and Cohn] hadn’t met, everything might be different.

I really think it’s that portentous and that significant.”

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3(2023).

He just manages to throw things at you."

Shell soon be oppositeDakota Fanningand Kathryn Hunter in the horror filmViciousby director Bryan Bertino (The Strangers).

Emily Mitchell at the New York premiere of “Ordinary Angels; Ivana Trump 1992

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He plays Donalds father, Fred Trump Sr., inThe Apprentice.

He died at age 93 in 1999.

Fred Jr. struggled with alcoholism throughout his life and died of a heart attack at age 42 in 1981.

Martin Donovan attends “The Apprentice” Photocall at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2024;Fred Trump attends the opening of the restored Wollman Rink in Central Park on November 5, 1987

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A longtime friend of Trumps, Stone eventually became his political adviser.

Then-president Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.

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Mark Rendall at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018; Roger Stone attends Roger Stone Exclusive Photo Session on August 19, 1987

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