'Do a few tweets more': The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi reacts after Donald Trump blasts his biopic
Donald Trump has already made his feelings known about the movie The Apprentice, but the director of the film is not fazed.
The former US President blasted the biopic, starring Sebastian Stan, on his social media platform in the past 24 hours, but director Ali Abbasi tells 9honey Celebrity it's good publicity for the film.
"We're trying to raise more money to give it to him and see if we can do a deal for him, [to] do a few tweets more," Abbasi jokes on the red carpet at the film's London premiere.
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Donald Trump has made his feelings known about the movie The Apprentice covering the early years of his life, after he meets controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. Tailored Films
The movie has been in Trump's crosshairs since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, but his latest spray has been his fiercest yet.
"A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully 'bomb'," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"It's a cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country.
"My former wife, Ivana, was a kind and wonderful person, and I had a great relationship with her until the day she died.
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The biopic's director, Ali Abbasi, jokes with 9honey Celebrity that Donald Trump's latest spray good publicity for the film. Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP
"The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it. So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a Political Movement, which is far bigger than any of us."
For actor Jeremy Strong, who plays Cohn in the movie, Trump's language is the part he finds most concerning.
"I think his response was really troubling," Strong told AFP on the red carpet.
"The Roy Cohn in me was sort of doing cartwheels because he attacked us and he denied the veracity of things, which is exactly what Roy taught him.
For actor Jeremy Strong, who plays Cohn in the movie, Trump's language is the part he finds most concerning. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images f
"But I find it a sad and troubling state of things that the American presidential candidate is using a phrase that was used by Hitler and Stalin and Kim Jong and Bolsonaro, and by calling us human scum, it's a deliberate invocation of a phrase that has really scary historical connotations.
"[It] might be good marketing for the film, but it's a troubling thing for our world."
Abbasi has said since its debut he'd be happy to chat with the 78-year-old about the movie and any concerns he may have but it appears Trump's taking a more indirect approach.
"I mean, they reached us in sort of legal letters and threatening," Abbasi tells 9honey celebrity when asked if Trump, or anyone from his team, have been in touch.
"But I think there will come a time that they will come around - it would be more fun for him and for me to watch it together, I guess."
The Apprentice is out in cinemas across Australia now.
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