In “The Apprentice”, by Ali Abbasi, there is a scene in which Donald Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) has a hair transplant to remove his bald spot, as well as liposuction to appear thinner.
The film follows Trump as he starts as a local real estate developer in the 1970s to become a national movie star in the 1980s. He learns the game of installation from Roy Cohn (Jeremy Sturdy), a ruthless and hedonistic political fixer. Hair department head Michelle Cote, along with prosthetics leads Sean Sansom and Brandi Boulet, were the artisans responsible for transforming Stan into Trump and helping kick off the series.
As time passes, Trump begins to lose hair and gain weight to the point where he takes amphetamines to help with weight loss. However, it doesn’t work.
Stan gained 15 pounds for the role of replicating Trump’s body transformation; the costume division also made a padded swimsuit with an abdominal prosthesis. “In any of the scenes where he was shirtless or with his dress open, we would put the fake piece on him,” says Boulet. The group used the prosthetic stomach for a look they dubbed “Donny Capsules.”
“We had a fake belly that we made for Sebastian for part of his ‘Capsules Donny’ look, which was my favorite to do, because he was all red, stained, always eaten and sweaty and a little shredded,” explains Boulet.
As a result of hair loss and weight gain, in the film, Trump resorts to cosmetic surgery. For the hair transplant scene, Sansom reveals that they used “the top part of a fake head with scalp. Michelle was wearing a wig and an area where the scalp could be removed was cut. The hair was pierced a single strand at a time, and the piece was equipped with a bloodline, and the scalpel also had a bloodline – and was injected at some point.
When the audience is first introduced to Trump, he is much younger, so Boulet used prosthetics on Stan’s face. “We pulled his cheeks and eyes up and tightened his face to make him look younger,” explains Boulet, adding that “for the skin tone, we made it a little lighter than the basic orange you see at the end.” .
Cote even gave Stan a blonder wig with medium sideburns for that opening Trump section. But it was an evolving look, with eyebrows, hair and skin tone changing over time. “When he was younger, his hair was golden because he was outdoors more and had some natural highlights,” explains Cote. “As he got older, he lost his highlights and (his hair) got darker.”
To take advantage of Trump’s aging, Boulet would reduce Stan’s carry items. Plump cheeks were then added to “bury” the actor’s chiseled face and chiseled cheekbones. “He had an upper dental plate that did not cover his teeth. There were lumps under the lips that pushed the area (of the mouth) further so that it was flatter,” explains Samson. “And then they were placed on his bottom lip to give him that Donald look from the nose down.”
One problem the group needed to resolve was Stan’s facial hair. With filming lasting all day, Stan’s facial hair was beginning to appear, which meant that fixed touch-ups were mandatory. “He got a 5 o’clock shadow the minute he started shaving. So we had to work with little things like that where we would have to cover and blend the prosthetic.”
Makeup artist Colin Penman remembers being enthralled while watching the screen as Stan and Maria Bakalova, who plays Ivana Trump, recreated Oprah Winfrey’s 1988 interview. “I knew we had something because there’s this amazing line where we don’t want to do a parody. We want it to be real,” he says.
In addition to gaining weight, Stan arrived fully ready to play and enjoy the essence of the former president. “The production set aside a large archive of reference videos and photographs that everyone used,” says Sansom. “We were trying to recreate and reproduce some of the images as best we could.”
Boulet adds: “Sebastian had everything. His cell phone was full of analyses. He came in the morning and would be discovering and watching films.”
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