{"id":130043,"date":"2024-10-09T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/it-shouldnt-be-controversial-inside-the-apprentices-hard-won-new-york-city-premiere\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T18:05:20","slug":"it-shouldnt-be-controversial-inside-the-apprentices-hard-won-new-york-city-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/it-shouldnt-be-controversial-inside-the-apprentices-hard-won-new-york-city-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt Shouldn\u2019t Be Controversial\u201d: Inside The Apprentice\u2019s Hard-Won New York City Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\">Vivian Lanko<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">By OK McCausland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">After the first New York audience had seen the film, <em>VF<\/em>\u2019s editor in chief, <strong>Radhika Jones,<\/strong> led a Q&amp;A with those involved in the production, including actor <strong>Martin Donovan,<\/strong> who plays Trump\u2019s father. Decades ago, as he revealed, he also briefly worked as a waiter at Trump Tower, although he never laid eyes on its namesake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The audience was populated by both press and celebrities, including <strong>Laverne Cox<\/strong> and <strong>Anne Hathaway.<\/strong> The latter giggled after her close friend Strong compared working on <em>The Apprentice<\/em> to \u201c<strong>Philippe Petit<\/strong> walking across the [World] Trade Center on the wire,\u201d referring to \u201cthe level of risk involved and how badly you could just crash and burn,\u201d which he noted were aspects of the project that \u201cdrew us towards it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Beyond Cohen, at least one more former Trump henchman was drawn in by the film as well. Shortly before the premiere, <strong>Roger Stone<\/strong> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_aliabbasi_\/status\/1843760159430164922\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/_aliabbasi_\/status\/1843760159430164922&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_aliabbasi_\/status\/1843760159430164922\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> that Strong\u2019s portrayal of his old friend Cohn \u201cis uncanny in it\u2019s accuracy.\u201d (For what it\u2019s worth, Stone did not comment on his own presence in the film, which includes a scene in which a Speedo-clad Stone refills Cohn\u2019s cocktail as the older lawyer bakes in a tanning bed.) \u201cNo matter what your partisan background is, people are finding the humanity in these characters,\u201d said Sherman from the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">As a Danish Iranian, Abassi has an outsider\u2019s perspective of the American political system. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in the Middle East, it\u2019s almost like you\u2019re living downstream from this palace and the sewage goes through where you live,\u201d the director explained during the Q&amp;A. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s an environmentally conscious king\u2014the shit\u2019s gonna go down there anyways\u2026. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a Democratic president or Republican president\u2014we\u2019re gonna get the short end of the stick anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/inside-the-apprentice-new-york-city-premiere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivian LankoBy OK McCausland. After the first New York audience had seen the film, VF\u2019s editor in chief, Radhika Jones, led a Q&amp;A with those involved in the production, including actor Martin Donovan, who plays Trump\u2019s father. Decades ago, as he revealed, he also briefly worked as a waiter at Trump Tower, although he never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,9844,54,1157,9845,8090,8030],"class_list":{"0":"post-130043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-2024-election","9":"tag-apprentice","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-michael-cohen","12":"tag-premiere","13":"tag-sebastian-stan","14":"tag-the-apprentice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}