For Abbasi, it was the perfect way to tell the story. 'There was this genuine thing about trying to understand him on a human level,' Abbasi explains.
Eventually, Abbasi read a script by Gabriel Sherman, a New York magazine contributing editor and former Roger Ailes biographer. Sherman's idea of Donald Trump painted the former President as a product of the system that molded him.
But when he arrived, the focus quickly shifted from Border to a barrage of questions regarding how his experience would shape his next project. Producers and writers hounded him.
"Even when I read the script the first time, I was almost scared how sympathetic Donald was depicted... But the fact that I feel really feel bad for him unsettles me."
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