Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on Working with Maria Bakalova

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In this video, stars of ‘The Apprentice’ Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan discuss the authenticity and brilliance of Maria Baklova’s portrayal of Ivana Trump in the upcoming Donald Trump biopic.

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00:00It was very exciting to have a, you know, to just kind of be in the ring with each other

00:06and know that whatever we were going to throw at each other, the other would

00:11punch back above their weight. You got to work on that. Your face looked like an orange.

00:15Maria was lovely. I mean, very committed, very open, I think, to sort of the way we were shooting.

00:21And obviously, she's from that part of the world, Eastern Europe. And I think there's a lot of

00:28authenticity and familiarity that she had with Ivana that sort of maybe somebody else wouldn't

00:33have. I mean, I think she's a heavyweight actress. Her work is brilliant in this. And she and Roy had

00:40a contentious relationship. And Roy Cohn was someone who believed that law was an adversarial

00:46profession. He was a pretty aggressive person. And he also believed in what he called owning

00:52the surprise, as I do as an actor. So I would pounce on her in scenes, and she was fantastic to work with.

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