Maria Bakalova looked sensational as she hit the red carpet in London on Tuesday for the screening of her latest film.
The actress, 28, looked elegant in a green printed silk dress as she posed before the gala screening of The Apprentice at the BFI London Film Festival.
The Bulgarian star, who rose to fame after her starring role in Sacha Baron Cohen’s subsequent film Borat, donned a figure-hugging dress with a black and white pattern on the skirt.
The elegant dress included an over-the-shoulder train and the star added a pair of metallic green pumps to her look.
The beauty styled her blonde hair into a sleek slicked back bun with side bangs and accessorized it with a silver necklace and matching statement earrings.
Maria Bakalova looked sensational as she walked the red carpet in London on Tuesday for the screening of her latest film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The Bulgarian star, who rose to fame after her starring role in the subsequent film Borat, wore a tight-fitting dress with a black and white print on the skirt.
The elegant dress included an over-the-shoulder train and the star added a pair of metallic green pumps to her look.
The actress also posed alongside her co-stars Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong and director Ali Abassi, who looked dapper in smart brown suits.
Sebastian opted for a pair of dark brown pants and a lighter grayish brown jacket that he wore open over his white shirt.
Jeremy wore a brown velvet jacket and a light brown turtleneck, while Ali opted for an all-black look.
Maria’s stylish appearance in London comes after she was seen alongside Anne Hathaway at the New York premiere of the Donald Trump biopic last week.
The film, directed by Ali Abbassi and written by Gabriel Sherman, follows Trump during his career as a real estate mogul in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sebastian plays the businessman-turned-politician, while Jeremy Strong plays his lawyer Roy Cohn and Maria plays Ivana, Trump’s ex-wife.
The plot follows a young Donald as he builds his career as a Manhattan real estate magnate with his first wife Ivana, played by Maria.
His mentor, the fearsome lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), who was previously Joe McCarthy’s right-hand man during the Red Scare, molds Trump into the man he is today.
The actress also posed alongside her co-stars Sebastian Stan, (left) Jeremy Strong (center) and director Ali Abassi (right), who looked dapper in smart brown suits.
The beauty styled her blonde hair into a sleek bun with side bangs and accessorized it with a silver necklace and matching statement earrings.
The film has received very positive reviews, with The New York Times calling it “cheerfully vulgar.”
Critic Manohla Dargis wrote: “Each actor has clearly made careful study of his character’s real-life counterpart, his mannerisms, how he moves and especially his voice.”
He added: “The film encourages you to laugh at its extremes, its vanity and bluster; the one thing the filmmakers don’t prepare you for, even if you knew better, is the magnitude of the American tragedy rapidly unfolding before you.” . .
In another positive review, the Los Angeles Times said that Sebastian Stan delivers “the performance of his career to date” and also praised the film’s cinematography for capturing the 1980s setting well.
Critic Katie Walsh added: “Some may want ‘The Apprentice’ to go further.” Humanizes Trump. But it also presents a blatantly obvious depiction of how a man can become a monster with the right personality, background, and guidance. What more could I need to say?
Movie fan site JoBlo also gave The Apprentice a glowing review and said that Jeremy Strong’s performance as Roy Cohn made him the “real star” of the film.
Reviewer Chris Bumbray wrote: “Abbasi gives a tremendous sense of pace, with two hours that are simple, mean, and entertaining from start to finish, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum.”
Donald Trump’s biopic The Apprentice has received very positive reviews from critics who have praised it as a “light-hearted” and fast-paced story with strong performances.
The film, directed by Ali Abbassi and written by Gabriel Sherman, follows Trump during his career as a real estate mogul in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sebastian Stan (left) plays the businessman-turned-politician, while Jeremy Strong plays his lawyer Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova (right) plays Trump’s ex-wife Ivana.
It comes after the Trump campaign announced it will sue the ‘fake filmmakers’ behind The Apprentice because it shows the presidential candidate raping his wife Ivana.
He said it was plagued by long-debunked lies and belonged in a “dumpster fire.”
The film tells the story of the end of his marriage to Ivana, and at one point shows Trump raping his wife and asking her, ‘Did I find your G-spot?’
In a divorce filing in 1989, Ivana raised an allegation of rape, but she overturned it in 2015. She has since died.
“We will file a lawsuit to address the blatantly false claims of these so-called filmmakers,” said Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign.
‘This rubbish is pure fiction sensationalizing lies that have long been debunked.
‘As with the illegal Biden trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and defeat their preferred candidate because nothing they have done has worked.
‘This “movie” is pure malicious slander, should not see the light of day, and does not even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD movie section of a soon-to-close discount movie store. , belongs to a dumpster fire.’
Ivana (pictured, left) was married to Donald Trump (pictured, right) from 1977 to 1990.
The film’s makers are also reported to be in dispute with one of its financial backers, billionaire Dan Snyder, who is a Trump supporter and former donor to his campaign.
In Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, she claimed that Trump raped her. She claimed Trump pushed her to the ground and ripped out several clumps of her hair.
Trump denied the accusation, and Ivana Trump later said she didn’t mean it literally, but rather that she had felt violated.
In a 1993 deposition, she said: “On one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved toward me very differently than he had during our marriage.”
“As a woman I felt violated… I referred to this as rape, but I don’t want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”
