Jeremy Strong said in a recent interview with The Times of London that playing Kendall Roy on HBO’s “Succession” for four seasons “fucked me up.” The actor won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role, but he has no interest in returning to the world of “Succession” because he “sometimes lost touch with […]

In May, after I saw and reviewed the how-Donald-Trump-learned-to-be-Donald-Trump biopic “The Apprentice” at the Cannes Film Festival, I had dinner with a group of very sharp-minded film folks, and we all agreed that the movie, if treated with the right marketing savvy, had the potential to make a splash. A few days later, I woke […]

If you’ve seen any publicity for “The Apprentice” — the controversial new biopic about a young Donald Trump’s tutelage under the ruthless Roy Cohn — then you know the party line, hocked in one interview after another by the film’s cast: The movie took seven years to make; nearly didn’t happen three times; narrowly escaped […]

Jeremy Strong recently told the Los Angeles Times that “it’s absolutely valid” to criticize straight actors for playing gay characters, although he also strongly believes that it’s an actor’s job “to render something that is not necessarily your native habitat.” Strong stars as Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn in “The Apprentice.” “Yes, it’s absolutely valid,” […]