‘Violent’ Donald Trump ‘rape’ scene in controversial film The Apprentice sends shockwaves through Cannes-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

The Apprentice stars Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wive Ivana, pictured alongside Sebastian Stan (Picture: Tailored Films Ltd)

Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, charting his early years as a real estate businessman in New York, has stunned Cannes Film Festival with its shocking scenes, including a depiction of non-consensual sex.

Ali Abbasi’s new film stars Sebastian Stan as a convincingly subtle young Trump, alongside Jeremy Strong as his aggressive mentor, New York City prosecutor Roy Cohn.

Borat’s Maria Bakalova rounds out the headline cast as Ivana Zelníčková, who would become the future President of the United States’ first wife.

Many were expecting the movie to raise eyebrows and likely agitate Trump’s loyal MAGA-centred fanbase.

However, among a collection of shocking scenes including vigorous sex, Stan’s pronunciation of the word ‘clitoris’ as Trump and grisly surgical procedures, one in particular is a headline-grabbing shocker – a scene in which Trump appears to force sex on his wife.

A film insider described the scene as ‘violent’ and ‘uncomfortable’ to Variety ahead of its premiere, while female filmgoers at last night’s premiere also had strong reactions, dubbing it ‘gross’ and ‘disturbing’.

The scene is undoubtedly hard to watch and acts as a turning point in the film where Trump has seemingly lost the humanity he is initially credited with having at least a little of.

Ali Abbasi’s (C) film has shocked critics with its content, including a violent non-consensual sex scene (Picture: Corbis via Getty Images)

It’s also based on what was, at the time, sworn testimony.

Trump rapes his wife Ivana

During The Apprentice, Trump is shown forcing himself on his wife during an argument.

The scene starts out unassuming – even amusingly – as Ivana presents her husband with a book about the G spot in a bid to reconnect.

Trump reads a little excerpt from the book, sceptically, which gives the surreal (but likely accurate) version of Trump’s way of saying ‘clitoris’ in his trademark raspy, New York tones.

He then snaps, cruelly tells her he is no longer attracted to her and then wrestles her to the floor on her front, lying on top of her.

‘Is that your G spot? Did I find it?,’ he then shouts as he roughly thrusts into a crying Ivana.

The real Donald and Ivana Trump, pictured in 1983, with the shocking scene depicted between them based on sworn testimony from Ivana during their divorce (Picture: Getty)

It sounds – and is – awful, but it’s actually based on Ivana’s divorce deposition in 1990 where she claimed her then-husband raped her and made her feel ‘violated’.

This allegation was then published in 1993 book The Last Tycoon by Harry Hurt III – however, Ivana later retracted the accusation in 2015 and said she and her ex ‘were the best of friends’.

Ivana’s ‘plastic t*ts’ are also commented on in the scene, with Trump telling her to her face that they were a waste of money, despite it reportedly being something he requested and paid for.

Other unexpected scenes in The Apprentice include…

Roy Cohn takes part in a gang bang

Jeremy Strong is Roy Cohn in the film, Trump’s mentor in the 1970s and ’80s (Picture: Tailored Films Ltd)

The controversial sex scene between Trump and Ivana is not the only one in the film – between them or anyone else.

Cohn was Trump’s real-life mentor, seen in The Apprentice shaping his aggressive personality and approach to consistently claim he’s winning (‘No matter how f**ked you are, you always claim victory’).

He was also a gay man who eventually died after succumbing to AIDs – although he constantly denied his sexuality and claimed he was suffering with liver cancer.

One of Trump’s most reprehensible acts – claimed to be based on a real-life anecdote by screenwriter Gabe Sherman – shows him throwing Cohn’s dying lover Russell out of his Trump Tower hotel and sending Cohn the bill.

The real Cohn, who was gay but hid the fact, with Trump at the opening of Trump Tower, which is depicted in The Apprentice (Picture:Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images)

Earlier in The Apprentice, Trump gets irrevocable proof of Cohn being gay when he heads upstairs at a party at his house to find him.

He opens a door, only to find Strong’s Cohn engaging in an athletic group sex session: Cohn is on the bed with one man, while another three-person scenario is taking place on a chair across the room.

Trump’s alleged plastic surgery is laid bare

Again, Ivana’s deposition has added fuel to the fire of rumoured procedures Trump may have undergone.

She claimed her own surgeon had overseen both liposuction and a scalp reduction surgery on Trump, to help correct his baldness. This taboo topic, in the real Trump’s eyes, is also mentioned twice by Stan’s Trump, including in a moment of confession to Cohn.

Sebastian Stan’s subtly convincing performance as Stan is enhanced with increasing amounts of transformational makeup (Picture: Getty)

As the film progresses, Trump’s infamous comb-over becomes more and more pronounced.

When the procedures are covered, Abbasi enjoys revelling in the grisly detail of the flesh and blood.

Trump’s flabby belly is sliced into with a knife, while fat is pumped out along a tube.

Meanwhile, his scalp is also shown being cut into, with a strip – with long strands from his comb-over almost comically still attached – removed and plopped into a metal basin before his head is stapled shut. Tasty.

The Apprentice premiered at Cannes Film Festival on May 20. It is yet to receive a UK release date.

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