New Apprentice Film Charts the Rise of Trump Suit by Custom Suit
The movie’s costume designer weighs in on how the clothes tell the story of two characters going in different directions.
Jeremy Strong (left) as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan (right) as Donald Trump in The Apprentice, a film by Ali Abbasi.
Photographer: Pief WeymanOne of the more pivotal scenes in The Apprentice takes place in a tailoring shop. The film, which hits theaters on Friday, Oct. 11, is essentially a Donald Trump origin story. It charts the mentorship and dubious legal support that the then-future-president (played by Sebastian Stan) received from the controversial and charismatic lawyer Roy Cohn (Succession’s Jeremy Strong) early in his real estate career.
The movie begins in the late 1970s, when a young Trump is working for his father, Fred, collecting overdue rent from public housing projects. He learns about business and life from the older man as he begins building his Manhattan real estate empire, marries the flashy model Ivana and elbows his way into New York’s cutthroat social scene.