Ali Abbasi Gives His Side Of Golden Globes Afterparty Grope & Parting With U.S. Reps; Calls It A Playful ‘Slap On The Rear’ Of An Actor He Considered A Friend
deadline.comAli Abbasi, the director of the Donald Trump film The Apprentice who exited his US reps CAA and Entertainment 360 in the aftermath of an ugly incident that took place at a Golden Globes afterparty, has issued a statement explaining himself.
Deadline broke news of the shocking incident yesterday, and it got picked up everywhere. With voting closed Tuesday, it does not impact the Oscar chances of Sebastian Stan, who played Trump as a wannabe real estate mogul, or Jeremy Strong, who plays Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn.
But it shook up the town yesterday, because Abbasi, an Iranian-born filmmaker, was rising in the ranks after the lauded movie The Apprentice and following up on earlier films like Holy Spider.
Deadline was told by multiple sources that an inebriated Abbasi groped an A-list actor and the fallout led to the parting of the ways with CAA and Entertainment 360 with a lot of back and forth going into it.
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