Who’s afraid of Roy Cohn? Not Jeremy Strong

So filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s new biopic “The Apprentice” describes its dominant figure, a New York and Washington, D.C., power broker who lies, cheats, charms and browbeats his way into the uppermost ranks of American business and government. Life is too short.” Strong, left, as Roy Cohn, with Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in “The Apprentice.” The topic at hand isn’t just the life and times of Roy Cohn, of course. Meanwhile, this season alone could conceivably add two more names — Strong and Daniel Craig for “Queer” — to the list of nine straight men who’ve previously done so. I certainly don’t do these things just for my own self-aggrandizement.” “You have to take these things as seriously as you take your own life,” says Strong of diving into the role of Roy Cohn. “I haven’t had to alter my body in that way,” says Strong, who underwent a doctor-supervised “starvation diet” and a regimen of tanning booth visits and biweekly spray tans to match Cohn’s notoriously leathery look.