Jeremy Strong describes ‘The Apprentice’ as a love story between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn

May 17, 2024 20:32


‘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
- VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) May 16, 2024
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film, donald trump, succession (hbo), actor / actress, sebastian stan

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theactualworst May 18 2024, 04:05:33 UTC
Ngl I think people are being too hard on Seb for taking this role. There’s nothing wrong with actors taking on roles of shitty people. I agree with the people who were pissed about Pam & Tommy cause I agree but this one doesn’t bother me.

I know people are concerned about the impacts on the election but we’ve long been fucked I that department.

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alwayspolaris May 18 2024, 04:33:32 UTC
I guess this to me is the same as Pam and Tommy and all those Dahmer biopics, etc. - it still feels like it's glamorizing these real life horrible people and their crimes, and at the expense of their victims/their families (who now among other things have to see movie trailers/awards ceremonies about these men and have to dodge interviews/fans). It's just in this case the criminal also happens to be running for office.

If I thought this would actually help expose new information or get justice for people he's hurt I might think differently about it. But it's just an awards grab at the end of the day :/

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lamppost1911 May 18 2024, 05:03:30 UTC
But Pam publicly condemned the show and family members of Damher victims did the same.

I am not defending the movie but until I know the plot/see it, I don’t see anything wrong with trash being exposed. I get what you mean though. Maybe I’m being too optimistic but I’m hoping that this movie shows that.

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alwayspolaris May 18 2024, 12:28:04 UTC
This just came out so we'll have to wait and see specifically how all of his sexual assault and redlining victims from the 70s feel, but also almost an unimaginable number of people have lost someone to covid - for which he crippled the public healthcare system and denied aid - or have been gravely impacted by the abortion bans, or any of his other deadly policies, so a lot of the people speaking out against this movie ARE his victims. And at this point there's not a lot of his crimes we - and his base - don't already know about. He publicly brags about all it and it just makes his fans like him more, which is why I have my doubts this will expose anything new :(

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curdlesnoots May 18 2024, 04:19:15 UTC
I really wonder what he’s like as a scene partner because if it’s always about his internal experience & feeling the moment, is he really listening to the other actors? How can you be supportive of them, or the story?

I don’t know much about acting but I thought the point of staying in character/mood or mindset, and being really prepared, was to help you deliver a realistic performance & be open to opportunities in the scene, in the moment.

Whereas with Strong I do wonder if he takes on those feelings to the point where the other actors are having to essentially work around him. I sometimes felt like that watching Succession, that really he was lucky the other actors were so good because often it was how they responded to him, not the other way around, which made the moment.

Like that scene when he sat on the ground in S3, it was a good choice but it was Sarah & Kieran who sold it. I guess he was trusting them as his scene partners which is a key part of the process, but I do wonder if he took more than he gave.

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frelling_tralk May 18 2024, 13:19:39 UTC
I remember Kieran expressed some frustration once about how he doesn’t find it very helpful as an actor working with Jeremy,

“He puts himself in a bubble….The way Jeremy put it to me is that, like, you get in the ring, you do the scene, and at the end each actor goes to their corner. I’m like, ‘This isn’t a battle. This is a dance.’”

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iznanassi May 18 2024, 14:18:53 UTC
your last sentence probably nails it. it seems like something a good actor would have to work twice as hard to overcome, and a new actor would lose themselves in.

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pinkspade May 18 2024, 17:10:45 UTC
idk- i agree with you that he does sound very wrapped up in his internal experience but it seems like that experience generates a lot that is offered to his acting partners? like what you mentioned about him sitting on the ground- that's giving sarah & kieran something react to and play off of, it's not just him on an emotional journey

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violet_crumble9 May 18 2024, 04:24:56 UTC
hell world hell world

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tetrazzinichikn May 18 2024, 04:28:44 UTC
Not one single non-MAGA person should watch this. Not one.

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