“You’re not born knowing the intricacies of big business, you learn it, and this is about who he learned it from,” is how our Ben O’Shea described The Apprentice, the highly-anticipated new film on the formative years of one of the most divisive figures in recent history, Donald Trump, which hits cinemas today.
Set in the late ’70s and ’80s, Sebastian Stan stars as a young, ambitious, but somewhat naive Trump who finds himself navigating the treacherous waters of New York real estate, when he meets the infamous Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). Turns out it wasn’t Trump’s wealthy father who was pivotal in shaping the man we know today – it was Cohn.
“Everything he was talking about in [his book] The Art of the Deal… all those trademark things we associate with Trump now, came from Roy Cohn, which was really interesting to watch,” O’Shea said.
But do we really need the origin of him drinking Diet Coke?
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