The lead actors in a new film about Donald Trump’s early business days on why the former US president’s reaction to it is a kind of validation
‘Trump called us human scum this morning’: Apprentice stars Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on being in the line of fire
Have your say on honouring Irish women: Are there any Irish streets, buildings, places or structures that should be named, or renamed, after women?The 2 Johnnies – what you get if you feed Ant and Dec a Tayto sandwich after midnight – are taunting us now I suggest that you couldn’t make up these two men. A screenwriter, if starting from scratch, would allow them a sliver more shade. Right? Strong points me towards the heroes of John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy.
The success of Succession turned Strong from one of the business’s best-kept secrets into a source of endless fascination. Born into a working-class Boston family, he idolised the method greats as a kid. He won a scholarship to Yale to study drama but ended up switching to English. Strong continued to act and spent spells at the
In the first decade of the century he moved from small if increasingly prestigious theatre companies to roles off Broadway. In 2008 he made his Broadway debut in a revival of A Man for All Seasons. You can see him on screen as a CIA analyst in. But Succession changed everything.
It hardly needs to be said that Roy Cohn, the man if not the character, does exist apart from Jeremy Strong. There is the Trump yelling on our telly and Stan’s uncannily impersonated version on the big screen. The two men must have gained some understanding of how the heck this grifting real-estate mogul rose to become the most powerful man in the world . Almost nobody thought it could happen until it actually happened.
That seems a sensible view. Yet, in the current discourse, dramas about malign forces are, even before a frame has been screened, often bitterly frowned upon. Think of the online fury that erupted at news thatended up being greatly praised. Even now there are liberal critics objecting to the mere idea of a Trump film.played Hitler and Nixon, but he also played CS Lewis. He also played Picasso,” Strong says. “And Hannibal Lecter. It’s an art form. It’s storytelling.
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