“The Apprentice,” a fictionalized biopic on the professional rise of Donald Trump decades before reaching the White House, will premiere at the festival this May, an announcement made on the same day would-be-watchers got ain the festival’s main competition, as will Jacques Audiard’s"Emilia Perez," a musical with Selena Gomez and Francis Ford Coppola’s"Megalopolis.”
From Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi,"The Apprentice," follows the now-billionaire Trump's efforts to build his real estate business in the 1970s and 80s in New York. Stan, best known for his role as Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plays a young Trump alongside “Succession” actor Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, theMaria Bakalova, the first Bulgarian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, will play Trump’s first wife Ivana, and American actor Martin Donovan is cast as Fred Trump Sr., Trump's father.reads.