Filmmaker Ali Abbasi has responded to the Trump campaign’s threat to sue over his movie , which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night to an . “Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people — they don’t talk about his success rate though, you know?” Abbasi said Monday morning in France, drawing laughs from the crowd at the first press conference for The director acknowledged Trump’s likely assumptions around the movie, saying, “If I was him, I would be sitting in New Jersey, Florida or wherever he is now — or New York — and I would be thinking, ‘Oh, this crazy Iranian guy and some, like, liberal cunts in Cannes, they gathered and they did this movie and it’s fucked up.'” “But I don’t necessarily think that this is a movie he would dislike,” Abbasi added, before saying he would be happy to screen the movie for Trump and discuss it with him.
He continued: “I don’t necessarily think he would like it. I think he would be surprised, you know? And like I’ve said before, I would offer to go and meet him wherever he wants and talk about the context of the movie, have a screening talk and a chat afterwards, if that’s interesting to anyone at the Trump campaign.” explores ’s rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand rightwing attorney Roy Cohn.
Sebastian Stan portrays a young version of the real estate mogul in his pre-MAGA days while star Jeremy Strong plays Cohn, along with Martin Donovan ( ) as Fred.
