Stan, whose big break came as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, earned a whopping 11-minute standing ovation when The Apprentice premiered at Cannes.
The film also reportedly earned threats from Trump’s reelection campaign team.
“Having Donald Trump’s campaign threaten us directly after our screening, not only threaten us, but threaten any distributor who dared to try to release the movie, that created a very unique circumstance for everyone involved, and we certainly have had our struggles with that,” producer Dan Bekerman told Deadline in September.
“But we’ve really believed in the integrity of the movie on every level: as a work of art, as a responsible movie”.