Sebastian Stan Plays Donald Trump, Maria Bakalova Is Ivana Trump and Jeremy Strong Is Roy Cohn in ‘The Student’ Film
variety.comJordan Moreau Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled “The Student” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”), Variety can confirm.
The cast also includes “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.
According to the logline, “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty.
Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.” Gabriel Sherman, author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country,” will write the film about Trump.
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