Presidential candidate Donald Trump is sensationally depicted raping his wife Ivana in a film that premiered tonight in Cannes.
On The Apprentice, actor Sebastian Stan plays Trump as a younger man and Succession star Jeremy Strong plays his fixer Roy Cohn.
The film, which is competing at the festival, tells the story of the end of his marriage to Ivana, and shows her offering him a book on how to be a better lover.
Trump is shown telling her that he no longer finds her attractive. He rapes her and then asks 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.
On The Apprentice, actor Sebastian Stan plays Trump when he was younger (pictured)
Ivana (pictured, left) was married to Donald Trump (pictured, right) from 1977 to 1990.
Donald Trump and Melania (pictured, right) seen at Ivana’s funeral in 2022
The film’s makers are now 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.
The Apprentice sees Sebastian Stan portray Trump during the flourishing early years of his business career, particularly his working relationship with controversial lawyer Roy Cohn, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986.
Production on The Apprentice began in late November. The film follows Trump in the 1970s and 1980s as he attempts to establish his real estate empire from the properties of his father Fred Trump.
The Apprentice is directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who filmed the critically acclaimed Persian-language crime thriller Holy Spider, released in 2022.
Succession star Jeremy Strong, who will play disgraced (and ultimately disbarred) lawyer Roy Cohn, will feature prominently as the young Trump’s mentor. He was subsequently disbarred in 1986 for defrauding a dying client.
In Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition (pictured, left), she claimed that Trump raped her.
Ivana Trump later said she didn’t mean it literally, but rather that she had felt violated.
Oscar-nominated actress Maria Bakalova plays Trump’s late ex-wife Ivana Trump in her youth.
Variety initially reported that the film’s title would be The Student, adding that a logline for the upcoming film described it as “an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit.”
‘It’s a mentor-protégé story that traces the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger-than-life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.’
The film’s script was written by Gabriel Sherman, author of the 2014 book The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant and Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News and Divided a Country.
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.”
Former President Donald Trump returns from lunch to his trial in Manhattan Criminal Court
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 strands 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.”