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Sebastian Stan shared his reasoning for taking connected the relation of erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump successful the 2024 biopic The Apprentice.
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Sebastian Stan’s determination to play Donald Trump wasn’t 1 helium took lightly.
The actor, who portrayed the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nominee successful the biopic The Apprentice, revealed what drew him to the relation of the businessman-turned-politician.
“What fundamentally started with my benignant of dismissive, judgmental cognition of this feline started to signifier into thing bigger,” Stan told The Hollywood Reporter successful an interrogation published Nov. 4, “which was not conscionable astir this guy, but besides astir a definite mindset and this thought of the American imagination arsenic we cognize it, and what is it, really?”
The Romania-born star—he moved to the U.S. astatine property 12—said his fascination with the American imagination besides stemmed from his ain acquisition arsenic an immigrant.
“I had been obsessing astir it,” helium described, “since my mom, successful New York City, pointed to the Twin Towers, and each astir us, and said, ‘This is the promised land, this is the onshore of the free, this is the onshore of opportunity. This is wherever you tin go someone. And I sacrificed my beingness for you to get here.’”
“And truthful I person ever been successful emotion with this idea,” helium concluded. “I americium benignant of an illustration of the American dream. I’ve lucked out.”
It’s not the archetypal clip Sebastian has played a nationalist figure. He underwent a large carnal translation to play Tommy Lee successful the 2022 constricted bid Pam & Tommy, embodying the Mötley Crüe drummer with the assistance of tattoos, piercings and hairsbreadth dye—not to notation significant value loss.
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“I was conscionable moving and trying to get 20,000 steps a day, and past I was fasting for 16 to 18 hours a day,” helium told Entertainment Weekly. “And that decidedly does something, particularly if you're successful traffic. But I'm arrogant of the full thing.”
Before that, helium starred arsenic Jeff Gillooly successful 2018’s I, Tonya.
"It was an insane communicative that I didn't adjacent cognize about,” helium told Vanity Fair. “At the time, I'd ne'er played a existent idiosyncratic earlier truthful I was mortified and I surely didn't unrecorded his life."
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