Stan plays Trump in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, set for release October 11 in a performance that goes beyond impersonation to capture the representational essence of Trump.

In Thunderbolts, set for release in May 2025, Stan will reprise his role as Bucky Barnes, The Winter Soldier.

Stan also shared his routine for gaining weight on The Apprentice: drinking Coca-Colas and eating lots of peanut butter and jam sandwiches. The result worked for getting into character as a young Donald Trump, but made the transformation back into superhero for Thunderbolts rather challenging.

Filming for both movies was affected by the writers and actors strikes, which meant Stan went periods of gaining and losing weight only for filming schedules to be postponed or changed.

“I’m fuckin’ 41,” Stan said of the back-and-forth. “I just worked pretty hard to get in shape here!”