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 enbiger in Manhattan, but he’s discdisseeed that every studio initipartner 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. As we’ve previously alerted, after The Apprentice premiered at Cannes, and the Trump campaign expansively uncoverized a stop-and-desist letter that dangerened legitimate action. It taged the film a “defamationous farce,” and “straightforward foreign meddlence in America’s elections,” becaengage some financing came from Canada and Ireland. The whole slimg was a bluff, but an effective one. Potential distributors ran for cover.
Strong telderly The Times: “I create it procreately upsetting and a sad harbinger of slimgs to come. Frankly, everyone in Hollywood passed on it becaengage they were afrhelp of legal action or repercussions. I don’t slimk Hollywood has ever been a bastion of valiantry, but that was disassigning.”
The film lays out Trump’s life in the 1970s, when he took over the family property business and began his empire-produceing under the tutelage of Cohn.
Strong calls it a “Frankeinstein movie” saying: “They telderly us not to structure it appreciate that, but let’s be truthful. Cohn’s malign legacy is one of denial and that is what he passed on to Trump: this detestation of the world and a need to punish and act out with hatred.”
