Jeremy Strong Insists Filmmakers Weren’t Baiting Trump

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‘The Succession’ actor Jeremy Strong plays Roy Cohn in the new film ‘The Apprentice’ which acts as an origin story for the eventual President of the United States, Donald Trump. Trump has recently spoken out against the filmmakers on his social media site Truth Social.     Jeremy was speaking from the BFI London Film Festival screening, he was joined by his co-stars Sebastian Stan, Maria Bakalova and director Ali Abbasi.  Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Hey, how are you? I thought it said ATN for a second and I thought I was entering into like a alternate universe

00:09So obviously it's kind of inevitable

00:11I feel I've been a few period me that Trump was going to voice his opinion about this film as he has done in the

00:16Last 24 hours. Were you anticipating it? And what was your initial gut reaction to his words?

00:22yeah, you know, I didn't know if he would I I

00:25didn't know if he would and

00:27I thought he might stay outside of the fray, but

00:32You know and I don't think this film was an attempt to bait him

00:37But he did speak out and he used a lot of

00:42Rhetoric that sort of comes straight out of Roy Cohn's playbook. So the Roy Cohn in me was delighted

00:49He attacked us. He denied the veracity of the film and those are things that he learned from Cohn

00:54So in a way it was a tacit endorsement of the film

00:57But I was really troubled as I think we should all be by his use of the phrase human scum

01:03Which is a phrase that's been used by some some pretty terrible dictators in the 20th and 21st century

01:13And I've been hearing you talk a lot about Roy Cohn's influence on America today

01:18You know, whatever he did when he was alive was long-lasting. Do you think the effect that he's had on America is reversible?

01:24I

01:29Don't know I

01:31Wish I could give like a good red carpet answer to that. I

01:35hope so

01:37because

01:38you know in a way he's like the progenitor of

01:41Fake news and of alternative facts and this sort of post truth world that we find ourselves in

01:49It kind of stems from him in a certain way. It's

01:51Thank you for your time

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