The Apprentice director says he thought about casting a WOMAN to play Trump in the film

The manager of the forthcoming Sebastian Stan movie astir young Donald Trump said helium considered casting a pistillate successful the pb role. 

Director Ali Abbasi was successful Washington, D.C. Sunday nighttime to debut his movie The Apprentice: An American Horror Story. 

Despite ineligible threats from Trump's team, the movie opens nationwide connected Friday. 

'There was a clip earlier I started talking to Sebastian I thought that possibly it should beryllium an histrion playing Trump,' Abbasi revealed astatine the D.C. screening. 'Because I thought there was thing awkward and disconnected astir his assemblage connection and I wanted to person that. I wanted to benignant of play with that. And we tried it.' 

Speaking to DailyMail.com, Abbasi wouldn't uncover which actresses helium spoke to astir portraying Trump connected the large screen, though helium did accidental that helium reached retired to Cate Blanchett for advice, arsenic she did a 'great job' playing Bob Dylan. 

'I did speech to a fewer radical astir that and I was superior astir it,' Abbasi said successful an interrogation Monday. 

'I did besides overlays of young Donald's look and antithetic actresses that I was considering,' helium continued. 'I talked to my prosthetics idiosyncratic and tried to fig retired however we could lick it if idiosyncratic had the bully proportions oregon not.'

Abbasi told DailyMail.com that helium besides conducted a dependable trial utilizing a woman. 

'And successful the end, I think, I conscionable felt similar the full happening became excessively gimmicky,' helium said. 

'It would spell contrary to my goal, which was humanizing and, you know, capturing complexity. And it would go a movie astir however you did that stunt,' the manager said. 

It besides would person apt angered Trump adjacent much than Stan's performance. 

In 2017, connected the heels of Melissa McCarthy dressing successful resistance and portraying White House property caput Sean Spicer connected Saturday Night Live, the information that McCarthy was a pistillate was the 'most problematic' portion of the skit successful the president's eyes, Politico reported. 

Cast member Kate McKinnon besides played Trump's archetypal Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a apical Trump ally, and erstwhile New York City Rudy Giuliani, who became Trump's idiosyncratic lawyer. 

Aidy Bryant played Trump's 2nd Attorney General Bill Barr. 

Abbasi said helium wasn't alert that Trump had been angered by women playing his apical aides connected the drama show. 

'We speech astir it similar it's a antagonistic thing, but it doesn't request to beryllium a antagonistic thing,' Abbasi said of gender-bending performances. 'But I wasn't aware, I wasn't alert of this,' helium said of Trump's choler related to women playing his aides and allies. 

In the end, the prime of Stan for Trump felt right. 

'I deliberation 1 important happening with Sebastian is, helium - and I've said that earlier - he's astir specialized successful bringing sleazebags and douchebags to life,' Abbasi said. 'And springiness them similar humanity and springiness them benignant of, you consciousness for him. You consciousness for these characters. Without them being needfully ridiculed.' 

'And it's a precise absorbing talent, you know, it's not easy,' the manager said.