‘The Apprentice’ Distributor Backs the Films Hollywood Won’t
- Movie about Trump’s business career is unflattering portrait
- Tom Ortenberg also distributed ‘The Dissident’ and ‘Spotlight’
Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong in “The Apprentice”.
Source: Briarcliff EntertainmentIndependent film distributor Tom Ortenberg didn’t think he had a chance of securing the rights to the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice when he saw it debut to rapturous applause at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
But it turns out no one else wanted the Ali Abbasi-directed movie, which stars Sebastian Stan as Trump in the early years of his business career and Succession’s Jeremy Strong as US prosecutor Roy Cohn. The film depicts Trump getting liposuction, taking amphetamines and sexually assaulting his then-wife Ivana.