Oliver Stone says Trump was a bad (but supremely confident) actor

SAN DIEGO — Director Oliver Stone appeared at Comic-Con Thursday to discuss Snowden, his biopic of Edward Snowden, the infamous National Security Agency document leaker now in exile in Russia.

The real Snowden also appears in the film, though his shoot was "hard," requiring nine takes from many angles, Stone recalls.  ("I'm not an actor," reminded Snowden, who appeared at the sci-fi convention via Google Hangout; Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays him in the film).

The cameo reminded Stone — who directed films about former presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush — of Donald Trump, who that same night accepted the Republican party's nomination for president in Cleveland.

Trump appeared in the 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, but his scene never made it into the final cut of the film. “The difference between Donald and Ed was that —  I swear to God this is true, and I love the man in a weird way —  but after every take (Trump) jumped up and he said, ‘Wasn’t that great?!’ And I said, ‘Honestly, no.’ The confidence is unbelievable.”