Review: Coming Trump Biopic Is “Sickeningly Familiar”

Entertainment Weekly reports:

As Dr. Frankenstein once learned, the problem with creating a monster is that eventually, you have to confront the horrors you have wrought.

That’s what happened to Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) after mentoring a young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), an American parable of greed and betrayal brought to life with a soap-operatic glee in The Apprentice.

Cohn takes Trump under his corrupted wing, teaching him the three rules by which he lives: 1) Attack, attack, attack; 2) Admit nothing, deny everything; and 3) No matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat. It’s a sickeningly familiar playbook to anyone who’s watched the news in the past decade.

Read the full article. The film opens in the US on Oct. 11.

‘The Apprentice,’ the controversial Donald Trump biopic, offers a stage for Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong to shine. Read Entertainment Weekly’s review. https://t.co/v9gtmEJiAX

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