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Succession actor expresses ‘empathy’ towards Murdoch family amid real-life drama
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Succession actor expresses ‘empathy’ towards Murdoch family amid real-life drama

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Succession actor Jeremy Strong has spoken out and expressed empathy after …

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The 2024 Actors Roundtable: The fear factor behind great art
1 month ago

The 2024 Actors Roundtable: The fear factor behind great art

LA Times  

Once an actor finds his name popping up in Oscar conversations, he’s pretty much arrived in the industry, right? Am I going to ruin it?’ The fear of, ‘I’m wrong for it,’” says Kieran Culkin, who stars in the affecting “A Real Pain” with the film’s writer-director, Jesse Eisenberg. Don’t go in there asking for the job.” Kieran Culkin: I …

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The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?

LA Times  

The Buzz is back! Mike Leigh — “Hard Truths” “Because of the scale and scope of ‘The Brutalist,’ Venice best director winner Brady Corbet could beat out Sean Baker and Jacques Audiard, but it’s a close race. Marianne Jean-Baptiste — “Hard Truths” “It’s ‘Anora’ vs. ‘Emilia Pérez’ again as Mikey Madison and Karla Sofía Gascón battle. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — “Nickel …

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Maggie Haberman on What an Unleashed Trump Might Do - The New York Times
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Maggie Haberman on What an Unleashed Trump Might Do - The New York Times

New York Times  

Earlier this week, I released an audio essay on Donald Trump. But that’s an example where somebody who actually understands that governing is not just yelling at people, and getting exactly what you want through dominance, might have done something differently.” “How do you think about the almost endless series of cases that come out of reading any reporter’s coverage …

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Does The Apprentice tell Donald Trump’s true story? The most controversial scenes explained
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Does The Apprentice tell Donald Trump’s true story? The most controversial scenes explained

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Apprentice is set during the early years of Trump’s business …

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Trump’s lie-industrial complex
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s lie-industrial complex

Salon  

Lying and denial go hand in hand. Trump spreads one vicious lie after another about immigrants, alleging that tens of thousands of “illegal” immigrants descended on the town of Springfield, Ohio, population 58,000, taking people’s jobs, eating their cats and committing crimes such as murder and rape. He tells lies about other towns such as Aurora, Colorado, where immigrant “gangs” …

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Jeremy Strong says playing Kendall Roy on ‘Succession’ messed with his head, big time
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Jeremy Strong says playing Kendall Roy on ‘Succession’ messed with his head, big time

LA Times  

Jeremy Strong says he “sometimes lost touch with joy” while playing Kendall Roy in “Succession.” The actor recently “rediscovered play.” As if playing Kendall Roy during the award-winning run of “Succession” didn’t mess with Jeremy Strong enough, the character is still taking a toll on the self-described “identity diffusion” actor. Strong’s notorious acting methods also landed him in the crosshairs …

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Review: A power broker takes on a quick study in ‘The Apprentice,’ a window onto Trump’s rise
3 months ago

Review: A power broker takes on a quick study in ‘The Apprentice,’ a window onto Trump’s rise

LA Times  

There’s a scene late in “The Apprentice,” the new film directed by Ali Abbasi about the relationship between Donald J. Trump and his attorney and mentor Roy Cohn, that’s akin to Dr. Frankenstein realizing in horror just what he has made. After an aggressive and somewhat insulting birthday toast, Trump wheels out an American flag-shaped birthday cake festooned with sparklers, …

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Donald Trump tried to ban The Apprentice, an unofficial biopic starring Sebastian Stan. Was it worth the fuss?
3 months ago

Donald Trump tried to ban The Apprentice, an unofficial biopic starring Sebastian Stan. Was it worth the fuss?

ABC  

The Apprentice's title might be a nod to the reality show that propelled Donald Trump to national infamy but the film itself — an unsanctioned portrait tracing the 45th US president's emergence as a real estate mogul in the 1970s and 1980s — takes us beyond public image and into an uncanny world of shifting identities. Fast facts about The …

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Who’s afraid of Roy Cohn? Not Jeremy Strong
3 months ago

Who’s afraid of Roy Cohn? Not Jeremy Strong

LA Times  

So filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s new biopic “The Apprentice” describes its dominant figure, a New York and Washington, D.C., power broker who lies, cheats, charms and browbeats his way into the uppermost ranks of American business and government. Life is too short.” Strong, left, as Roy Cohn, with Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in “The Apprentice.” The topic at hand isn’t …

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Donald Trump didn't want The Apprentice released before the US election. It's coming to cinemas this week
3 months ago

Donald Trump didn't want The Apprentice released before the US election. It's coming to cinemas this week

ABC  

Around the time Ali Abassi was first offered Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice in 2018, the Iranian-born Danish director couldn't actually enter the US due to Trump's infamous travel ban. The Apprentice is the semi-biographical story of Donald Trump's ascension through New York's real estate scene in the 80s, and his relationship with lawyer/mentor Roy Cohn. Jeremy Strong plays ruthless …

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"The Apprentice" is an accurate origin story of Donald Trump's "wannabe fascism": historians
3 months ago

"The Apprentice" is an accurate origin story of Donald Trump's "wannabe fascism": historians

Salon  

"The Apprentice" is the movie that Donald Trump does not want you to see, and it is easy to understand why. It is the first of many political issues that Cohn and his acolytes discuss with Trump, always from the vantage point of the far right: "Welfare queens," trade deficits, fighting Communists, avoiding business regulations "Even though myself I'm not …

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“The Apprentice” gets honest about the making of Donald Trump
3 months, 1 week ago

“The Apprentice” gets honest about the making of Donald Trump

Salon  

When we first meet Donald Trump in the new movie “The Apprentice” it is in the early 70s and Trump is in his mid-20s. “The Apprentice” may not be the movie Trump wants, but it’s the movie everyone should see. Maria Bakalova who was last seen in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” shines as Ivana Trump, bringing a sense of poignancy and …

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Why Do Trump’s Lawyers Do This to Themselves?
4 months ago

Why Do Trump’s Lawyers Do This to Themselves?

Slate  

Before he was president, before he was a reality TV star, Donald J. Trump was a businessman. In the second installment of award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein’s special series for Amicus, The Law According to Trump, Andrea talked to Danya Perry—who represents Michael Cohen and is the founding partner of Perry Law. But a lot of the work that Michael …

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Trump Learned Every Lesson From the Roy Cohn Playbook, Except the Most Important One
4 months ago

Trump Learned Every Lesson From the Roy Cohn Playbook, Except the Most Important One

Slate  

Twice impeached, convicted on 34 felony counts, indicted in two federal criminal courts, on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in civil penalties: Former President Donald J. Trump has a long-standing, intimate relationship with the law—a personal, close-up view of the American justice system spanning 50 years and thousands of lawsuits. Related From Slate The Supreme Court Just …

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“I had an emergency session with my therapist”: Why Will Brill's Tony-winning role made him get help
5 months, 3 weeks ago

“I had an emergency session with my therapist”: Why Will Brill's Tony-winning role made him get help

Salon  

It’s not about Fleetwood Mac. “The whole cast has been having these really intense meetings with each other,” Brill said, “And we have never felt more like a band.” Brill, who’s known to television audiences as Midge’s brother Noah in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," Scott Brown on "The OA" and a viperish, self-loathing Roy Cohn on Showtime’s "Fellow Travelers," also …

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'Will drive him out of his mind': Rick Wilson says Trump 'already' losing it over new film
7 months, 2 weeks ago

'Will drive him out of his mind': Rick Wilson says Trump 'already' losing it over new film

Raw Story  

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson predicted a new film about Donald Trump's early years would "drive him out of his mind." Trump's campaign has already called "The Apprentice," a film about the former president in the 1980s, "pure garbage." "You know, Donald Trump's history with Roy Cohn is an area that most Americans have no clue about," Wilson said. "He …

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The Apprentice review: Sebastian Stan is 'excellent' as a young Donald Trump
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Apprentice review: Sebastian Stan is 'excellent' as a young Donald Trump

BBC  

The Apprentice review: Sebastian Stan is 'excellent' as a young Donald Trump Cannes Film Festival The Apprentice documents the relationship between Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn With Sebastian Stan as the young Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as his notoriously vicious lawyer mentor Roy Cohn, The Apprentice is part "compellingly cynical buddy movie", part conventional biopic. Taking its …

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‘The Apprentice’ team fires back after Trump campaign threatens lawsuit
7 months, 3 weeks ago

‘The Apprentice’ team fires back after Trump campaign threatens lawsuit

LA Times  

Actors Maria Bakalova, left, and Sebastian Stan flank director Ali Abbasi at the premiere of their film “The Apprentice” at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. “It’s time to make movies political again,” director Ali Abbasi said after unveiling his Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday — and he swiftly got his wish. “This …

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Trump film shocks Cannes as former US President is depicted 'raping' his then-wife Ivana in biopic The Apprentice starring Sebastian Stan
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump film shocks Cannes as former US President is depicted 'raping' his then-wife Ivana in biopic The Apprentice starring Sebastian Stan

Daily Mail  

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is sensationally depicted raping his wife Ivana in a film which premiered in Cannes tonight. In The Apprentice actor Sebastian Stan plays Trump as a younger man and Succession star Jeremy Strong portrays his fixer Roy Cohn. In The Apprentice actor Sebastian Stan plays Trump as a younger man Ivana was married to Donald Trump from …

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Victoria Silvstedt puts on a very leggy display in ruffled lilac gown with daringly high slit at The Apprentice premiere during Cannes Film Festival
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Victoria Silvstedt puts on a very leggy display in ruffled lilac gown with daringly high slit at The Apprentice premiere during Cannes Film Festival

Daily Mail  

Victoria Silvstedt commanded attention as she hit the red carpet at the premiere of The Apprentice on Monday during the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival. Victoria Silvstedt commanded attention as she hit the red carpet at the premiere of The Apprentice on Monday during the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival The Swedish actress, 49, ensured all eyes were on her …

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Cate Blanchett exudes glamour in a black and pink gown as she leads the stars at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival premiere of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Cate Blanchett exudes glamour in a black and pink gown as she leads the stars at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival premiere of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice

Daily Mail  

Cate Blanchett turned heads as she arrived in a stylish ensemble at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival premiere of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. Cate Blanchett turned heads as she arrived in a stylish ensemble at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival premiere of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice The Australian actress, 55, looked incredible in a black and …

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Roy Cohn: The mysterious US lawyer who helped Donald Trump rise to power
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Roy Cohn: The mysterious US lawyer who helped Donald Trump rise to power

BBC  

Roy Cohn: The mysterious US lawyer who helped Donald Trump rise to power Getty Images As new film The Apprentice premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, a look at the cultural afterlife of political hitman Roy Cohn, who was Donald Trump's mentor in his early career – teaching him to "attack, counterattack and never apologise". When Attorney General Jeff Sessions …

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A prehistory of MAGA: "Mainstream" conservatives never really purged the fascists
8 months, 3 weeks ago

A prehistory of MAGA: "Mainstream" conservatives never really purged the fascists

Salon  

David Austin Walsh’s new book, “Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right,” had its origins in his experience as a college student editing a roundtable on Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" for History News Network. “Taking America Back” fits fairly comfortably within the framework of Edmund Fawcett’s “Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition”, which traces the contested history …

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