Hollywood A-Listers Afraid Of Donald Trump’s Wrath Over ‘The Apprentice’, Sebastian Stan Says

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Donald Trump never followed through on threats to take The Apprentice to court, but star Sebastian Stan has certainly experienced personal praise and a public rebuffing from his fellow A-Listers and their PR teams over the controversial biopic. “The amount of love that I’ve received from some of the biggest, in terms of actors, directors, producers, and writers, who have seen the movie, and they rave about it,” Stan said this week at a LA screening of the film. “But then, for instance, I had an offer to do Variety Actors on Actors this Friday, and I couldn’t find another actor to do it with me.” “They were too afraid to go and talk about this movie, so I couldn’t do it,” the Emmy nominated Pam & Tommy actor added with Apprentice director Ali Abbasi by his side. “That’s not pointing at anyone specific,” Stan went on to tell audience members, we couldn’t get past the publicists or the people representing them because they were too afraid to talk about this movie.” Abbasi added his two cents online on Tuesday:That is what we are up against!

https://t.co/UfXUnyGrQU “What Sebastian said is accurate,” Variety co-editor Ramin Setoodeh told Deadline in a statement Wednesday. “We invited him to participate in Actors on Actors, the biggest franchise of awards season, but other actors didn’t want to pair with him because they didn’t want to talk about Donald Trump.” Penned by journalist Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice follows the trajectory and rise to prominence of young and somewhat naïve rich boy Trump (Stan) under the tutorage of ruthless Republican lawyer and ex-Joe McCarthy bagman Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).