And yet, the major Hollywood studios and streamers weren’t calling.
“It was pretty shocking for me after the reception we got in Cannes,” he admits.
We’re not selling shoes.
Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’.Profile Pictures
So yeah, it was shocking."
He knew it wouldn’t be easy.
In fact, Sherman says he finds the legal threats “sort of perversely satisfying.”
Roy Cohn and Donald Trump in 1983.Sonia Moskowitz/Getty
“They’re going to block it.
It’s going to be banned.
After thewriterandactor strikes, after COVID, after the streaming bubble burst, they’re just so cautious.
Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong.Danny Kasirye
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“I’m so disappointed that literally nobody else in Hollywood would distributeThe Apprentice,” he says.
So I’m thrilled at the opportunity but disappointed at this circumstance.”
Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump in ‘The Apprentice’.Pief Weyman, Courtesy of Briarcliff Entertainment, Rich Spirit
Anybody who claims otherwise, I would probably accuse of fibbing."
“It’s not the industry that I felt like I was working in,” he says.
So to watch Hollywood in unison bend the knee to Trump, I find particularly disturbing."
It’s hard to know what kind of movie is going to work or not.
But I honestly have no idea.
He adds, “I say this humbly.
It is not about, ‘Oh, look how crazy we are, how cool we are.’
But I think we did stuff that a lot of people advised us not to do.
I think we really need that right now.”
