the apprentice trump movie
Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in "The Apprentice."
  • Trump threatened legal action over "The Apprentice" biopic that played at the Cannes Film Festival.
  • It depicts Trump's rise in New York under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.
  • Even if a lawsuit isn't successful, the threat can make it difficult for the movie to be released.

In the 1970s, the lawyer Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump a simple playbook for political fights: attack, counterattack, and never apologize.

Trump is employing that strategy on "The Apprentice," an independently produced biopic about him that premiered this week at the Cannes Film Festival.