Donald Trump Has an Open Invitation to Watch His Own Biopic

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Ali Abbasi, the director of the biopic ‘The Apprentice’ still wants Donald Trump to view the film about him, despite the former President’s recent outburst about the filmmaker on Truth Social.     Ali was speaking from the red carpet of the BFI London Film Festival screening of ‘The Apprentice’ alongside Sebastian Stan, who plays Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong, who plays his mentor Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova, who plays Trump’s first wife Ivana.    ‘The Apprentice’ is in cinemas in the UK from Friday 18th October. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Thank you so much for your time, I appreciate you.

00:03We are obviously, we know that there was going to be backlash to the film.

00:06In the last 24 or 48 hours, has the whole landscape changed based on the fact that Trump

00:10has been so outspoken against this film now?

00:13Well, I mean, marketing-wise, yes, because you know, now I think everyone who thought

00:18that we were too soft on Trump and, you know, giving him too much oxygen and we're doing

00:23his service and humanising him, I think they understand that the equation with this guy

00:28is completely different, you know.

00:30But the movie itself hasn't changed, you know, we still want to do a non-partial, non-partisan

00:35movie about a human being, flawed human being, but still.

00:39What attempts or efforts were actually made to have Donald Trump invited to see this film?

00:43Has he been given that invitation?

00:45I mean, I have invited him on social media a few times and I kept saying that in interviews

00:50and, you know, I don't know if they have sent an official paper invitation to, you

00:58know, his address, I don't know which one of the addresses we should send, but I do

01:03think that he knows that I want him on the screen.

01:07I've seen yourself and Jeremy and Sebastian and Maria as well on the campaign trail for

01:11this film.

01:12Have you formed a camaraderie amongst yourselves?

01:14Have you gotten closer as a bond because of kind of the, you're sticking together for

01:17this?

01:18No, it is fun, it is fun.

01:19You know, it's been fun to sort of like do this ensemble thing and, you know, move around

01:24and being the travelling circus that we are, you know.

01:27I just wish that it was less political in a sort of a very everyday sort of boring sense

01:35of it.

01:36But on the other hand, you know, that's what we chose.

01:38We're here at the London Film Festival about to screen this for British audiences, American

01:41audiences have already seen the film, do you think we'll have a different perspective over

01:45here as Brits?

01:46I think so.

01:47I think you guys would have easier time detaching from, like, you know, love and hate of Trump

01:52and, you know, sort of watch this as a movie and I think that's grateful.

01:56I think that's a really good thing for the movie.

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