‘The Apprentice’ Helmer Ali Abbasi Signs With UTA
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Ali Abbasi has signed with UTA. The filmmaker coming off The Apprentice will continue his career with the agency repping him in all areas in the US, and continues to be repped by Lark in the U.K.
Abbasi was last repped by CAA. Deadline revealed that the filmmaker got caught up in a bad moment at a Golden Globes afterparty where, as he subsequently stated in an apology, what he considered a “playful slap on the rear” of an unnamed star he considered a friend made the actor very angry.
Fallout ensued. Abbasi’s apology rang sincere – the incident shows it is best to not overindulge at these Hollywood parties, and that you can’t die of embarrassment.
This has a good chance to become a teaching moment for Abbasi, and a footnote in what has so far otherwise been a stellar career for the Iranian-born filmmaker.
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