Jeremy Strong reflects on how Roy Cohn’s dark legacy still influences today's world, and what it’s like to portray that character. In this video, he sits down with Entertainment Weekly and his co-star Sebastian Stan for a behind-the scenes look at the upcoming Donald Trump biopic 'The Apprentice.'
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00:00This is not a political movie, it's a movie about the relationship between these two outsiders who became the ultimate insiders.
00:09Using Roy Cohn's playbook of always attack, deny everything, and never admit defeat.
00:16Roy Cohn was someone who believed that law was an adversarial profession.
00:22He was a pretty aggressive person, and he also believed in what he called owning the surprise.
00:27He's one of the most influential figures in the 20th century.
00:31It turns out his sort of long shadow being cast to where we are today in the darkness today.