Hard as it may be to believe, there are not a lot of Hollywood agents clamouring for their star clients to take the role of one of the most polarising political figures of the 21st century.
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Marvel actor Sebastian Stan, though, was committed to The Apprentice. More than anything, he believed in its director, the Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi. And, even though it made him nervous – or maybe because it made it him nervous – he wanted to do it.
He wanted to play Donald Trump.
“There wasn’t a lot of competition,” Stan says, chuckling.
“It was one of those things I thought: if this isn’t going to happen, it’s not going to [be] because of me. It’s not going to not happen because I’m scared.”