Maria Bakalova looked sensational as she took to the red carpet in London on Tuesday for a screening of her latest film.
The actress, 28, looked chic in a green patterned silk dress as she posed ahead of the gala screening of The Apprentice at the BFI London Film Festival.
The Bulgarian star, who rose to fame after her starring role in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, donned a figure hugging dress with a black and white pattern across the skirt.
The elegant dress included an over the shoulder train and the star added a pair of metallic green shoes to her look.
The beauty styled her blonde hair in a slick-back bun with a side fringe and accessorised with a silver necklace and matching statement earrings.
Maria Bakalova looked sensational as she took to the red carpet in London on Tuesday for a screening of her latest film at the BFI London Film Festival
The Bulgarian star, who rose to fame after her starring role in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, donned a figure hugging dress with a black and white pattern across the skirt
The elegant dress included an over the shoulder train and the star added a pair of metallic green shoes to her look
The actress also posed alongside her co-stars Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong and director Ali Abassi who all looked dapper in sleek brown suits.
Sebastian opted for a dark brown pair of trousers and a lighter grey-brown jacket which he wore open over his white shirt.
Jeremy wore a brown velvet blazer and a light brown turtle neck while Ali opted for an all black look.
Maria’s elegant appearance in London comes after she was spotted alongside Anne Hathaway at the New York premiere of the Donald Trump biopic last week.
The film, directed by Ali Abbassi and written by Gabriel Sherman, follows Trump during his career as a real estate baron in the 1970s and 80s.
Sebastian stars as the businessman turned politician while Jeremy Strong portrays his lawyer Roy Cohn and Maria plays Trump’s ex-wife Ivana.
The plot follows a young Donald building his career as a Manhattan real estate mogul alongside his first wife Ivana, played by Maria.
His mentor, the fearsome lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), who was previously Joe McCarthy’s right-hand man during the Red Scare shapes Trump in to the man he is today.
The actress also posed alongside her co-stars Sebastian Stan, (left) Jeremy Strong (centre) and director Ali Abassi (right) who all looked dapper in sleek brown suits
The beauty styled her blonde hair in a slick-back bun with a side fringe and accessorised with a silver necklace and matching statement earrings
The film has received largely positive reviews with The New York Times calling the film ‘gleefully vulgar’.
Reviewer Manohla Dargis wrote: ‘Each actor has clearly made an attentive study of his character’s real-life counterpart, his mannerisms, how he moves and especially his voice.’
She added: ‘The movie encourages you to laugh at his extremes, his vanity and braggadocio, the one thing that the filmmakers don’t prepare you for, even if you should know better, is the magnitude of the American tragedy rapidly unfolding before you.
In another positive review, the Los Angeles Times said Sebastian Stan delivers ‘the performance of his career to date’ and also praised the film’s cinematography for capturing its 1980s setting well.
Reviewer Katie Walsh added: ‘Some may want ‘The Apprentice’ to go further. It does humanize Trump. But it also presents a plainly obvious depiction of how a man can turn into a monster with the right personality, background and guidance. What more could it possibly need to say?’
Movie fansite JoBlo also gave The Apprentice a glowing review and said Jeremy Strong’s performance as Roy Cohn made him the ‘true star’ of the film.
Reviewer Chris Bumbray wrote: ‘Abbasi gives a tremendous sense of pace, with it a lean and mean two hours, and entertaining from start to finish, regardless of where on the political spectrum you may be.’
The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice has received largely positive reviews from critics who have praised it as a ‘gleeful’ and fast-paced story with strong performances
The film, directed by Ali Abbassi and written by Gabriel Sherman, follows Trump during his career as a real estate baron in the 1970s and 80s
Sebastian Stan (left) stars as the businessman turned politician while Jeremy Strong portrays his lawyer Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova (right) plays Trump’s ex-wife Ivana
It comes after the Trump campaign announced it will sue the ‘pretend filmmakers’ behind The Apprentice because it shows the presidential candidate raping his wife Ivana.
It said it was riddled with long debunked lies and belonged in a ‘dumpster fire.’
The movie tells the story of the end of his marriage to Ivana, and at one point it depicts Trump raping his wife and asking: ‘Did I find your g spot?’
In a divorce deposition in 1989 Ivana made an accusation of rape but rescinded this in 2015. She has since died.
‘We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,’ said Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications director.
‘This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.
‘As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.
‘This “film” is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store, it belongs in a dumpster fire.’
Ivana (pictured, left) was married to Donald Trump (pictured, right) from 1977 to 1990
The makers of the film are also reported to be in dispute with one of its financial backers, billionaire Dan Snyder, who is a Trump supporter and former donor to his campaign.
In Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, she stated that Mr Trump raped her. She claimed that Trump pushed her to the floor and pulled out several handfuls of her hair.
Mr Trump denied the allegation and Ivana Trump later said she did not mean it literally, but rather that she had felt violated.
In a 1993 statement, she said, ‘On one occasion during 1989, Mr Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently towards me than he had during our marriage.
‘As a woman I felt violated … I referred to this as a rape, but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.’
