Sebastian Stan you get the President Donald TrumpBehavior should not be a laughing matter.
“I think we’re in a really bad place. I really do,” Stan, 43, said journalists during a press conference for his new film The Fjord on Monday, May 18. “To be honest with you, if you look at what’s going on, it’s okay—when we’re talking about the tightening of the media, the censorship, the threats, the lawsuits that are said to be endless but going nowhere—the writing was on the wall. We experienced all of that with the film.”
Although it has been two years since he played Trump, 79, in the biopic student, Stan still remembers the lengths to which the president of the United States went to stop the film from being released.
“Three days before the festival, [we were] you can’t be sure if the film will play at the festival,” he said Variety. “So maybe people are paying too much attention to that film, I think it will stand up to that. But we’ve been through it all, before. Jimmy Kimmel again Stephen Colbert and so on. So, I wish it wasn’t like that.”
When Trump once called Kimmel shooting for his controversial jokeshe also celebrated the cancellation of The Late ShowColbert’s”such was the talent below his standards.”
Stan himself knows what it’s like to have Trump announce his work and projects.
In October 2024, the president took over his True Social account and he struck Studenta film that focuses on his rise as a real estate entrepreneur in New York City under the direction of Roy Cohn.
“A fake and classless movie written by me, called ‘The Apprentice’ (Do they have the right to use that name without permission?), hoping it ‘bombs,'” Trump wrote at the time. “It is a cheap, insulting and disgusting political exercise, released before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try to damage the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country, ‘MAKE AMERICA AGAIN!'”
Fraser Harrison/Getty Images; Ethan Miller/Getty Images Sebastian Stan trades in his role as a Marvel anti-hero for a controversial real-life character. Stan, best known for playing Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will portray a young Donald Trump in the upcoming film The Apprentice, directed by filmmaker Ali Abbasi. […]
Stan has managed to avoid any drama with the president in the past as he celebrates the premiere of his latest film, The Fjord.
The play, which was hailed for 10 minutes, tells the story of a Romanian immigrant family living in Norway, who will be investigated and dealt with by the local justice system.
“There is always a fine line as an actor, what is my responsibility and is there a job to raise this mirror to the world as we see it?” Stan shared with him Deadline when discussing the film. “All we can do is tell stories, do our part to represent in any way, as truthfully as possible, the difficulties we all face.”
