Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong peel back the layers on Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn. See all the photos of the duo from EW's 'The Apprentice' cover shoot.
Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong peel back the layers on Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, in the year's most controversial biopic.. The duo go toe-to-toe in visionary director Ali Abbasi’s punk-rock biopic, which charts Trump’s rise in the ‘80s from wannabe mogul to global icon — all thanks to his mentor, Roy Cohn . , Abbasi, and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman open up about the challenges they faced, Trump’s legal threats, and releasing the incendiary movie just weeks before the U.S.
"Jeremy is an unusual actor. Even the other actors think Jeremy is unusual, and they're all weird," he jokes. "I think the unusual thing about Jeremy is he can be very intellectual and very intuitive at the same time."Both actors disappeared into their roles for the duration of the shoot. Asked what they learned about each other during the production, Strong quips, "Nothing at all.
"I studied them as best as I could for as long as I could, so I could have them in my arsenal to pull from in the moment when we were shooting because Ali wanted a very free-flowing, spontaneous documentary style take on this, which required a lot of improvisation, which meant that Jeremy and I had to be extremely well read."For Strong, finding his way into Cohn meant starting at the beginning.
Still, Strong adds, "That stuff is all, in a way, cosmetic. The real thing you grapple with is trying to understand where they’re coming from and trying to inhabit their struggle, and fight their fight. You have to check your judgments at the door and be interrogated simply on a humanistic level. With this, it was peering into the heart of darkness.
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