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Woody Allen has never been one to sugarcoat his opinions, but his latest revelation about Donald Trump still caught people off guard. In a recent sit-down on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, Allen looked back on Donald Trump’s brief cameo in his 1998 film Celebrity and delivered a review no one quite expected. Calling Trump “a pleasure to work with” and even “a very good actor,” Allen praised the president’s ease in front of the camera and his showbiz instincts.
Talking about his experience working with Trump, the director states,
“I’m one of the few people who can say he directed Trump. I directed Trump in [‘Celebrity’]. He was a pleasure to work with and a very good actor. He was very polite, hit his mark, did everything correctly and had a real flair for show business. I could direct him now. If he would let me direct him now that he’s president, I think I could do wonders.”
Allen then went on to add that this opinion of his is strictly based on their work together and that he does not necessarily support Trump's politics, as he continued,
“I disagree with many, almost all, not all, but almost all of his politics, of his policies. I can only judge what I know from directing him in film. And he was pleasant to work, and very professional, very polite to everyone. Very, you know, as I say, I would like to direct him now as president and let me make the decisions. But that’s not gonna happen.”
Donald Trump's filmography is quite impressive
Donald Trump’s filmography reads less like an actor’s resume and more like a time capsule of the 90s and early 2000s pop culture chaos. It all kicks off in 1989 with Ghosts Can’t Do It, where Trump makes his first on-screen appearance as himself.
In 1992, he basically hijacked Christmas cinema with Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Macaulay Culkin asks someone for directions, and Trump, strutting through the Plaza Hotel he owned at the time, points the way. That three-second cameo became a meme factory decades later, while also opening quite a few conversations.
By 1994, he was rubbing elbows with kids in The Little Rascals, showing up as Waldo’s dad. Then came a cluster of appearances: Across the Sea of Time in 1995, Eddie in 1996, and The Associate in 1996, all cameo candy for eagle-eyed audiences.
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1998 gave us 54, where he popped up as a VIP patron, and Woody Allen’s Celebrity. The 2000s sealed the deal: Trump struts through Zoolander in 2001, then crashes Sandra Bullock’s rom-com Two Weeks Notice in 2002, delivering another classic “I’m just here to be me” moment.
Something that's common in all of these roles of his is that he mostly stayed loyal to playing just himself. Looking back now, these appearances read less like random cameos and more like rehearsals for the biggest role he’d ever take on: Donald Trump, president.
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