Sebastian Stan will play Donald Trump in ‘The Student’

American actor Sebastian Stan will play former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in ‘The Student’, a film by Iranian director Ali Abbasi. According to information from the specialized media outlet Variety, the film is “an exploration of power and ambition in the world of corruption and fraud.” ‘The Student’ will also put “American Dynasty” in perspective with various real-life characters. Among them, lawyer and right-hand man of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, who will be played by actor Jeremy Strong, Emmy winner for the role of Kendall Roy in the series ‘Succession’, or the entrepreneur’s first wife, Ivana Trump. will be played by Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova. The script will be written by Gabriel Sherman, responsible for the book ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country’, which inspired the television drama series ‘The Loudest Voice’, in which Russell Crow starred in 2019. Abbasi’s thriller ‘Holy Spider’ was Denmark’s bet for the 2023 Hollywood Oscars in the Best International Film category, but was ultimately not selected among the nominees. The film also competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and follows the adventures of a journalist who investigates the story of a serial killer in Iran. Abbasi’s career includes films such as ‘Shelley’ and ‘The Border’, as well as directing two episodes of HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’, based on the video game of the same name. For his part, Stan received his first Golden Globe and Emmy nominations in 2023 for his role as Motley Crew musician Tommy Lee Bass in the series ‘Pam & Tommy’, and has also appeared in films such as ‘The Covenant’ and various parts Marvel movie. ‘Captain America’.