A-list actor Johnny Depp may have just donned elaborate face makeup and blue contact lenses for the movie Black Mass in order to convincingly portray Whitey Bulger, but now he’s doing it for comedy. For hilarious website Funny or Die, to be exact.
In the site’s fake “movie of the week,” which was “found” by director Ron Howard at a yard sale, Depp plays current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, out-there hair and all. The movie is supposed to be based on Trump’s 1987 book, The Art of the Deal.
Depp does a nearly exact imitation of Trump in the six-chapter, 50-minute parody. It also features a list of well-known actors, including Michaela Watkins as Ivanka, Jack McBrayer, Patton Oswalt, Andy Richter, and even Room child actor Jacob Tremblay. Even The Fonz (Henry Winkler) is in on the fun; he plays former New York mayor Ed Koch.
Adam McKay, the Funny or Die co-founder and the maker of the film, told the New York Times that “it was a crazy, completely nuts idea that somehow we pulled off.”
The movie doesn’t pull any punches, either. A sample quote: “I want my daughter to grow up to be someone I’d totally have sex with.”
Watch the trailer for the movie, above. You can watch the movie in its entirety at Funny or Die.
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