Jeremy Strong Defends ‘Humanizing’ ‘Despicable’ Roy Cohn With ‘The Apprentice’ Movie
Jeremy Strong is defending his new movie, the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, and his role in it as Trump right-hand Roy Cohn, saying Tuesday that “It’s not a pro-Trump movie or an anti-Trump movie.”
Despite describing Cohn as a “very, very vicious, despicable person,” a “demonic Peter Pan,” and “one of the worst humans of the 20th century” during his sit down with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Tuesday, Strong insisted that “it’s a dangerous idea that you could portray someone as ‘too human.’”
Amid outrage over his depiction in the film, Trump and his supporters tried—and failed—to block the movie and have now resolved to pursue their lawsuit against the filmmakers. In spite of his efforts, the movie received the green light to hit theaters in October, ahead of the November election. Depending on who you ask, news of its release might seem like a win for anti-Trumpers, but some Trump detractors are just as displeased about its October release, arguing that it “humanizes” Trump and Cohn, Colbert said.