Trump campaign calls Cannes film ‘The Apprentice’ ‘blatantly false,’ vows legal action

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

CANNES, France (AP) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. A Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement that the Trump team will be file a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.” “The Apprentice” premiered Monday in Cannes. It stars Sebastian Stan as a young Trump. The central relationship of the movie is between Trump and Roy Cohn, the defense attorney who’s played by Jeremy Strong. Cohn was chief counsel for Joseph McCarthy’s 1950s Senate investigations of suspected communists. “The Apprentice” is for sale in Cannes so it doesn’t yet have a release date.