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Jeremy Strong Calls ‘The Apprentice’ “Frankenstein Movie”; Calls Hollywood Response “Disappointing”


The Succession star plays Trump's lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn.

Jeremy Strong has ignited Oscar chat with his performance in The Apprentice as Roy Cohn, Donald Trump ’s mentor and lawyer during his hinterland as a property developer in Manhattan, but he’s revealed that every studio initially passed on the project. The film lays out Trump’s life in the 1970s, when he took over the family property business and began his empire-building under the tutelage of Cohn. Cohn’s malign legacy is one of denial and that is what he passed on to Trump: this detestation of the world and a need to punish and act out with hatred.”

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