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Why Sebastian Stan Wasn’t Particularly Worried About His Impersonation of Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian Stan has portrayed real life characters before, like Tommy
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  Speaker 2: Lee and Pam and Tommy and Tanya Harding's husband in
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  Speaker 2: It Tanya, but never before has played a character as
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  Speaker 2: well known or with such specific mannerisms as Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: in the upcoming biopick The Apprentice. With that level of familiarity,
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian knew his performance would be scrutinized as much for
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  Speaker 2: his imitation as his acting, which is why he prepared endlessly,
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  Speaker 2: while also letting go of trying to be exact in
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  Speaker 2: his portray of the former president. He tells RDY, I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know if I got the voice right. Here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. We're dealing with someone we're seeing twenty four
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  Speaker 2: to seven. Everyone's got an opinion on this person. I
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  Speaker 2: watched everything I could find. Anyone who's done an impression,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen it. It definitely helped. When I was playing
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  Speaker 2: him much younger, he sounded different. I did my best.
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  Speaker 2: Some people think it's good somewhont At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, I don't care. At Sebastian Stan, I'm playing
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump in The Apprentice, which is in theaters October eleven.
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