Sebastian Stan has been cast as young Donald Trump in the movie “The Student”, directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”), according to Variety.
The film’s star-studded cast also features “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. The logline describes the film as an exploration of power and ambition, revealing the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.
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Gabriel Sherman, author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country,” will write the film about Trump.
This year, Stan received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his portrayal of rocker Tommy Lee in Hulu’s biographical drama “Pam & Tommy.” He’s most well known for his Marvel Cinematic Universe role as Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier.
Abbasi’s most recent film “Holy Spider” was selected as Denmark’s entry for best international feature film at this year’s Academy Awards. The film also competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and won the best actress award for Zar Amir Ebrahimi.
Deadline Hollywood first broke the news.
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