Jeremy Strong describes ‘The Apprentice’ as a love story between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn
‘The Apprentice,’ starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, and Maria Bakalova, dramatizes the sinister bond between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn.
“I think of it as a love story, really,” Strong tells VF. https://t.co/iUDsRjA1Yw
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The Apprentice is about the he relationship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn as depicted by Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong.
“I’d go home by myself to the hotel room, and the real-world ramifications of the things that I was espousing and inculcating in Donald Trump really, really shook me,” Strong says. “It was a disturbing, upsetting place to be-that heart of darkness.”
“This movie at its core has a Midnight Cowboy arc to it,” Strong continues. “I think of it as a love story, really. It’s a chaste love story between a teacher and a pupil-these two men from the boroughs who aspired to Fifth Avenue.” He later considers Cohn within another metaphor: “He’s like a heart-of-darkness heart donor-and the heart got transplanted to Donald Trump.”
Strong describes Cohn with “I found myself moved by the arc of the character when he got sick. Someone who has lived in denial of so much, suddenly facing the end, and the searing regret and primal pain of that for someone who’s done so much damage. I don’t think he particularly felt much remorse, but he was a person.”