In the controversial Trump biopic 'The Apprentice,' Strong takes on the role of notorious political fixer Roy Cohn and somehow finds a way into empathy.
Brutal. Vicious. Crooked. Cruel. So filmmaker Ali Abbasi's new biopic 'The Apprentice' describes its dominant figure, a New York and Washington, D.C., power broker who lies, cheats, charms and browbeats his way into the uppermost ranks of American business and government. No, it's not Donald Trump. It's Roy Cohn.
' Then, as I begin to follow up, he interjects, 'What do you think?' I think it's complicated, if I'm being honest. I think it might be passé of me even to ask about it. At least for cis, white gay men, who have consistently dominated LGBTQ+ representation in film and television, the flagrantly stereotypical performances — the ones that treat the character's sexuality as if it were another layer of hair, makeup or wardrobe — are now few and far between.
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