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The auteur recalled a studio executive encouraging him to make features about "normal people" (and not replicants or aliens) instead.

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"I would just encourage everybody to be as politically incorrect as their heart desires," Penn said while also applauding Ali Abbasi’s daring Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice.”

Documentarian Alex Parkinson writes and directs the fictionalization of his 2019 feature.