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Jeremy Strong Defends ‘Humanizing’ ‘Despicable’ Roy Cohn With ‘The Apprentice’ Movie

‘DANGEROUS’

Strong stars as the infamous late lawyer and Trump's best friend in the highly anticipated film “The Apprentice.”

Jeremy Strong on stage at The Tonys
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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...

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