Roger Stone, longtime associate of both Donald Trump and Roy M. Cohn, admitted that Jeremy Strong's portrayal of Cohn was "uncanny in its accuracy."
Daniel M. Snyder invested in this film because he mistakenly believed it would portray Donald Trump in a positive light.
Director Ali Abbasi said Netflix turned the film down "Because they have millions of MAGA subscribers in the U.S., which is by far their biggest market. On a business level, I totally understand that. If you're in the toilet paper business, you don't want to alienate half the ass-wiping public. You want to sell toilet paper to everyone."
Various dated visual textures were used to give the movie a more authentic feeling, making it look almost like a documentary. The crew used 16mm film to shoot the scenes from the 1970s, and a filter mimicking the look of a VHS video for scenes from the 1980s.
The producers launched a Kickstarter campaign to get this movie released in U.S. theaters after big distributors backed off from fear of legal action from Donald Trump.
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