Top Trump! Maria Bakalova looks sensational in green patterned silk dress at the gala screening of The Apprentice at BFI London Film Festival

Maria Bakalova looked sensational as she hit 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 for the gala screening of The Apprentice at the BFI London Film Festival.

The Bulgarian star, who rose to fame after starring in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequenced Moviefilm, wore a figure-hugging dress with a black and white pattern on 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 into a sleek bun with side bangs and accessorized with a silver necklace and matching statement earrings.

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 dark brown pants and a lighter gray-brown jacket that he wore open over his white shirt.

Jeremy wore a brown velvet blazer and tan turtleneck, while Ali opted for an all-black look.

Maria’s elegant appearance in London comes after she was spotted with 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 1980s.

Sebastian stars as the businessman turned politician, while Jeremy Strong plays his lawyer Roy Cohn and Maria plays Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana.

The plot follows a young Donald as he builds his career as a real estate mogul in Manhattan, along with 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 into the man he is today.

The film received mostly positive reviews, with The New York Times calling the film “cheerfully vulgar.”

Reviewer Manohla Dargis wrote, “Each actor has clearly made a careful study of his character’s real-life counterpart, his mannerisms, how he moves and especially his voice.”

She added: “The film encourages you to laugh at its extremes, its vanity and boastfulness. The one thing the filmmakers don’t prepare you for, even though you should know better, is the magnitude of the American tragedy that quickly unfolds 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 the 1980s setting.

Reviewer Katie Walsh added: “Some may want ‘The Apprentice’ to move on. It makes Trump more human. But it also provides a starkly obvious depiction of how a man can turn into a monster with the right personality, background, and guidance. What else could it say?’

Film fan site JoBlo also gave The Apprentice a favorable review, saying that Jeremy Strong’s performance as Roy Cohn made him the “real star” of the film.

Reviewer Chris Bumbray wrote: ‘Abbasi delivers a tremendous sense of pacing, making it a lean and average two hours, and entertaining from start to finish no matter where you fall on the political spectrum.’

It comes after the Trump campaign announced it would sue the ‘pretending filmmakers’ behind The Apprentice because it shows the presidential candidate raping his wife Ivana.

It said it was full of long-debunked lies and belonged in a “dumpster fire.”

The film tells the story of the end of his marriage to Ivana, and at one point shows Trump raping his wife and asking, “Did I find your g-spot?”

In a 1989 divorce decree, Ivana made an accusation of rape, but withdrew it in 2015. She has now passed away.

“We will file a lawsuit to address the blatantly false claims made by these so-called filmmakers,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s campaign director.

“This garbage is pure fiction that sensationalizes lies that have long been debunked.

“Just like the illegal Biden trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and defeat the candidate of his choice because nothing they have done has worked.

“This ‘movie’ is pure malicious slander, should not see the light of day and does not even deserve a place in the direct-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-close discount film store, it belongs in a dumpster.”

The makers of the film are also said to be in a dispute with one of its financiers, billionaire Dan Snyder, a Trump supporter and former donor to his campaign.

In Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce decree, she stated that Trump had raped her. She claimed Trump pushed her to the ground and pulled out several handfuls of her hair.

Trump denied the accusation and Ivana Trump later said she didn’t mean it literally, but that she felt violated.

In a 1993 statement, she said: “In 1989, Mr. Trump and I had a marital relationship in which he behaved toward me very differently than he did during our marriage.

“As a woman, I felt violated… I called this rape, but I don’t want my words to be interpreted literally or criminally.”