Jeremy Strong has ignited Oscar chat with his carry outance in The Apprentice as Roy Cohn, Donald Trump’s mentor and lawyer during his hinterland as a property enhugeer in Manhattan, but he’s discleave outed that every studio initiassociate passed on the project.
Strong telderly The Times of London that the film, co-starring Sebastian Stan as Trump, did not discover US distribution for months.
He shelp: “I set up it proset uply upsetting and a foolish harbinger of leangs to come. Frankly, everyone in Hollywood passed on it becaengage they were afrhelp of legal case or repercussions. I don’t leank Hollywood has ever been a bastion of valiantry, but that was disnominateing.”
The film lays out Trump’s life in the 1970s, when he took over the family property business and began his empire-originateing under the tutelage of Cohn.
Strong calls it a “Frankeinstein movie” saying: “They telderly us not to summarize it appreciate that, but let’s be genuine. Cohn’s malign legacy is one of denial and that is what he passed on to Trump: this detestation of the world and a demand to punish and act out with hatred.”
