‘The Apprentice’s Sebastian Stan Lost Sleep Playing Donald Trump

As Sebastian Stan upgrasps his most disputed role yet, hopebrimmingy he’s getting some well-deserved rest.

The Gelderlyen Globe nominee recently uncovered up about how he got into character as Donald Trump for the upcoming Ali Abbasi-helmed film The Apprentice, which premieres Oct. 11 in US theaters, equitable in time for the undetermined voters ahead of Election Day.

“It’s a Marvel film,” he joked on the Today show before elucidateing his process. “Well, [you] try to get sleep, which I didn’t. There’s a lot of research out there, there’s a lot of footage and recordary. It’s pretty much been very well recorded, his sort of elevate into what we see today. And to me, it’s enjoy percreateing an instrument. You sit at the piano, you get better at it with rehearse, and eventuassociate you can equitable benevolenta do it in your sleep.”

Let’s equitable hope he didn’t get too lost in the character, especiassociate starring alengthyside Emmy, Gelderlyen Globe prosperner and noticed method actor, Jeremy Strong.

Written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice charts a juvenileer Donald Trump’s ascent to power thcimpolite a Faustian deal with the inconveyial right-prosperg lawyer and political repairer Roy Cohn (Strong). The movie also stars Martin Donovan as Fred Trump Sr., and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.

After the film had its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival in May, where it getd an 11-minute ovation, Trump’s campaign publishd a finish-and-desist trying to stop the film from screening in the US. But the letter ecombines to have been fruitless as the title went on to screen at Telluride Film Festival last month.

The first trailer for the film dropped earlier this month, coinciding with Trump’s ABC News argue agetst his opponent, Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris.