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“What surprised me is how good it is,” says Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro about the biopic about Donald Trump, which premiered in Cannes The Apprentice. “You know, there are some people who have tried to disparage it and say, ‘Oh, it’s an HBO movie,'” Deadline’s editorial director from the South of France says on today’s ElectionLine podcast. “But let me say this: It’s a very good HBO movie.”
“I just think it’s very well done. It has its own voice. What’s interesting is that for a biopic like this, there’s a lot in there about his life and his relationship with Roy Cohn,” D’Alessandro added – as you can hear above.
(LR) Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan in “The Apprentice”
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With Sebastian Stan as Trump in the 70s and 1980s, Succession Veterinarian Jeremy Strong as the notorious and ruthless lawyer Cohn and Borate The Ali Abbasi-directed film, in which Ivana Trump was played by Maria Bakalova, received an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes earlier this week. Trump gave lengthy accounts of an alleged sexual assault on Ivana and other alleged misconduct. The Apprentice He was also threatened with a lawsuit by the Trump campaign – a threat that Abbasi laughed at.
D’Alessandro believes the film will surprise both MAGA and Never Trump supporters when it is released in the U.S. later this year.
“It’s not entirely an anti-Donald Trump film. It’s really about this man’s origins… and what he had to do to become a real estate magnate.”
We will see, and we will see what effect The Apprentice on the likely close election.
Also on today’s Deadline ElectionLine podcast: Joe Biden tried to kill Donald Trump, MAGA crowd claims.
A standard FBI use of force form during the search of Mar-a-Lago for top-secret documents in August 2022 has morphed into a conspiracy theory that the current US president orchestrated an attempt to take out his rival, the former and perhaps future US president. The theory is spreading on social media and is being fueled by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump, as well as Fox host Maria Bartiromo.
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This week, literally everything went wrong when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a July 4 general election. Delays, ignorant MPs, pouring rain and protesters chanting a throwback song from Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997 almost drowned out the Conservative leader.
“It was just this slightly absurd half hour or so when it’s pouring with rain and nobody knows when the announcement is coming that everyone knows what’s coming,” says Max Goldbart, co-editor of Deadline International TV, of Sunak’s May 22 announcement.
“I think in the end it just came to the point where they said, ‘Do it. Rishi, get out,'” Goldbart adds on the podcast from the UK today. “Why nobody had an umbrella was unbelievable. And it really was… if you’ve been following British politics, you’ll know that since Rishi Sunak came into office about a year and a half ago, there’s been one kind of disaster after another for the Conservatives.”
Sunak’s snap election, trailing far behind Labour in the polls, signalled confidence in the Tories’ prospects after some better-than-expected economic news. But the media still tells us that Britons are ready for change after years of Conservative rule.
Or as Jake Kantor, editor of International Investigations, noted: “It could only get worse.”
If the development of British politics and media in recent years is any indication, things are going to get a lot wetter.
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