Trump Biopic Actor Being Frozen Out of Hollywood TV Chats As Other Stars Don't Want to Be Around 'Toxic' Don Questions
Actor Sebastian Stan says fellow actors have shunned him since playing Donald Trump.
Nov. 21 2024, Updated 11:34 a.m. ET
The actor who plays Donald Trump in a new biopic about the President-elect claims fellow actors have shunned him.
RadarOnline.com can reveal Sebastian Stan's contemporaries are "too afraid" to make appearances with him as they're reluctant to discuss Trump, according to the Marvel star.
Stan plays Trump in new biopic about the President-elect.
The controversial biopic, titled The Apprentice, focuses on his early days as a real estate tycoon and his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn, played by Succession actor Jeremy Strong.
The movie, which received mixed reviews and was released prior to the U.S. election on November 5, received a strong backlash from Trump himself, who branded the people involved "human scum".
Stan has now said there has been so much of a row around the film other actors are now starting to distance themselves from him.
Stan claims fellow actors are 'too afraid' to talk about Trump.
The star revealed he was unable to take part in Variety's Actors on Actors series due to others being unwilling to talk about Trump.
Stan, 42, explained: "I couldn't find another actor to do it with me, because they were too afraid to to go and talk about this movie. So I couldn't do it.
He added: "You know, I've got to do a lot of great things, and that’s not pointing at anyone specific.
"It was… we couldn't get past the publicists or the people representing them, because (they were) too afraid to talk about this movie."
Stan says actors have distanced themselves from him.
"And it's like, that’s when I think we lose the situation.
"Because if it really becomes like that — fear or that discomfort to talk about this — then we're really going to have a problem.
“For many, the idea that Trump is the same as any one of us is a really difficult thing to deal with at the moment and I understand the emotions are very high, but I think that’s the only way you’re going to grasp this film.
“If all it's saying is you cannot keep casting this person aside, especially after they get the popular vote, should we not give this a closer look and try to understand what it is about this person that's even driving that?"
Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in May.
In a statement given to People magazine VarietyCo-Editor in Chief Ramin Setoodeh confirmed Stan's account was true.
He said. "We invited him to participate in Actors on Actors, the biggest franchise of awards season, but other actors didn't want to pair with him because they didn't want to talk about Donald Trump."
Stan has received a small amount of support since speaking out on the issue. His I, Tonya co-star Paul Walter Hauser has offered to do Actors on Actors style chat with him.
Trump, 78, has previously dismissed the film, which features a scene where he rapes his ex-wife Ivana, as "pure fiction".
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In a rant on his Truth Social website, he wrote: "A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully 'bomb'.
"It's a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
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