About halfway through The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi's divisive biopic about the early career of Donald Trump takes a jarring turn that will inevitably alienate some viewers. Up until this point, the plot has largely focused on the relationship between Sebastian Stan's Trump and his mentor, notorious prosecutor Roy Cohn, whom Jeremy Strong plays as if Cohn invented the sinister gay trope (honestly, he might have). Written by Gabriel Sherman, The Apprentice dramatizes actual events, including the scene in question, when Trump sexually assaults his then-wife, Ivana Trump (Maria Bakalova). It's an intensely unsettling scene that feels crucial to the film's narrative structure and impact clearly, I can't stop thinking about it weeks later but is it necessary?
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