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It proved to be the most disturbing scene in a movie chock full of unflattering sequences about Donald Trump. In Ali Abbasis The Apprentice, Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) violently throws his then-wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova) to the ground and proceeds to have nonconsensual sex with her.
In the controversial scene, Ivana playfully presents a book to her husband about the merits of a female orgasm. But the interaction between the two turns dark quickly, as an uninterested Trump tells his wife that he is no longer attracted to her. They argue, and then Trump throws her to the ground. As he angrily thrusts himself into her, an icy Trump sneers: Is that your G spot? Did I find it?
Heading into tonights premiere, insiders insisted that the scene, which Variety previously reported on, was consensual but uncomfortable. But reactions within the Palais said otherwise. One woman in her 20s called the scene, which unfolds in the couples home after an argument, gross and referred to it as rape after the credits rolled. Another female attendee agreed, calling it a disturbing sexual assault.
Still, its an extraordinary turn of events for a film to depict a former president sexually assaulting his wife. One source familiar with the script permutations told Variety that the scene was even more overt in earlier drafts, while a second insider says the scenes inclusion was debated for its necessity to the storyline.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-apprentice-donald-trump-rape-scene-cannes-controversy-1236010965/
msongs
(67,748 posts)Tom of Temecula
(1,522 posts)Donald Trump Origin Tale The Apprentice Gets 11-Minute Ovation At Its Cannes World Premiere
https://deadline.com/2024/05/the-apprentice-trump-movie-ovation-cannes-1235924376/
BoRaGard
(578 posts)malaise
(270,636 posts)The movie matters
Dorian Gray
(13,577 posts)Like, I get that it's unflattering. But do you really want to subject yourself to 2 hours of the Trump story? He's grating and gross.
Sebastian Stan, I'm sure, did a great job, but WHY WOULD I WANT TO SUBJECT MYSELF TO THIS?
Happy Hoosier
(7,610 posts)Doodley
(9,268 posts)a kennedy
(30,105 posts)The Trumps were on the red carpet this evening at the Cannes Film Festival sort of as Ali Abbasis The Apprentice world premiered in competition. The film was greeted with an 11-minute post-screening ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
"Horizon: An American Saga," Kevin Costner's risk-it-all Western epic, rode into Cannes on Sunday, earning a seven-minute standing ovation. Costner was visibly emotional as the film received ...
Takket
(21,892 posts)Is this based on an actual depiction of an assault on Ivana? What is the basis of that scene?
Johonny
(21,195 posts)After she made fun of his hair transplant. Different set up, but she claimed he assaulted her during the divorce.
Demsrule86
(69,096 posts)Demsrule86
(69,096 posts)physical limitations managed to fall down stairs which she reportedly could not climb...I know know Conspiracy bullshit likely, but I still wonder. And he buried her in a damned golf course.
Johnny2X2X
(19,648 posts)And Donald and his people reviewed the book before its release and told her they can leave the rape in there as long as she included a statement about how well endowed he was.
I am not joking, this actually happened. Trump though, "yeah, I raped her, that's OK for her to say as long as she lies and says I have a big johnson." That's the level of deranged scumbag psychopath that he is.