Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong sit with Entertainment Weekly to discuss the challenges and importance of portraying Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in 'The Apprentice.' In this video, they emphasize the need for empathy and confronting darkness in today's world.
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00:00You can't go into this without, at least in my case,
00:02thinking that everyone and their cousin and their dentist
00:05and their neighbor is going to have an opinion
00:07about this particular person.
00:09But at some point, you just have to not really care about that.
00:14It didn't enter into my mind all that much,
00:17except that I knew that we would be sort of touching
00:22the third rail in making this movie.
00:24But in a way, that's a goal.
00:26The goal is to make work that touches the third rail.
00:30What felt at stake here was important enough,
00:33and the chance to work with Jeremy and Ollie exceeded that.
00:39And so that overpowered everything else for me, I think.
00:42I think we have to nurture empathy,
00:45and that's at stake now more than ever, it feels like.
00:47And the only way to do that is sometimes
00:50to confront it with its opposite.
00:53And we have to be aware of the things in the dark
00:55as much as we are of the things in the light.