00:00 The Apprentice, which stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, stunned the Cannes Film Festival during its highly anticipated premiere.
00:07 The movie explores Trump's rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand right-wing attorney Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.
00:16 Several shocking moments late in the film drew an audible gasp from the Cannes premiere crowd, including a scene depicting Trump's alleged sexual assault of his first wife, Ivana, and a surgery room sequence showing Trump getting liposuction.
00:29 Following the screening, the Cannes crowd gave the film a nearly eight-minute standing ovation.
00:33 During the movie's press conference at the festival, filmmaker Ali Abasi responded to the Trump campaign's threat to sue.
00:39 The team behind the film says they encouraged the Trump campaign to actually see the movie.
00:51 The director also shared what he thinks Trump would think of the film.
00:54 "I think he would be surprised, you know? And I, you know, like I said before, like, I would be happy, I would offer him to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening and have a chat afterwards."
01:09 As for the reviews so far, critics are praising Strong and Stan for their performances, with The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney calling them both "superb."
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