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Jeremy Strong Understands Criticism Of Straight Actors Playing Gay: “It’s Absolutely Valid”

While discussing his role as Donald Trump's gay mentor Roy Cohn in 'The Apprentice', Jeremy Strong chimed in on straight actors playing gay.

“I’m sort of old fashioned, maybe, in the belief that, fundamentally, it’s [about] a person’s artistry, and that great artists, historically, have been able to, as it were, change the stamp of their nature. Written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice charts a young Trump’s ( Sebastian Stan) ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Cohn. Strong added, “What I do feel, whoever plays any part ever, is that you have to take these things as seriously as you take your own life, and it is not a game, and that these people and their struggles and the experiences you’re trying to render are not a plaything.

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