Ali Abbasi's movie, which premiered at Cannes and is set for an October theatrical release, follows the rise of a young Trump (Sebastian Stan) under mentor Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).

Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” the tale of how a young Donald Trump fell into the orbit and under the spell of the venal lawyer Roy Cohn in the 1970s, struggled to ...

There’s a scene late in “The Apprentice,” the new film directed by Ali Abbasi about the relationship between Donald J. Trump and his attorney and mentor Roy Cohn, that’s akin to Dr ...

Stan and Strong are nominated for Oscars for The Apprentice. Stan plays the president early in his career, while Strong plays Trump mentor Roy Cohn. Originally broadcast Feb. 2025, and Dec. 2024.

In 1973 Roy Cohn met Donald J. Trump at a nightclub in New York City. Trump told Cohn that he and his father had been sued by the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division for ...

And Cohn’s fading health due to AIDS turns him into one of the many people Trump uses and discards on his climb to the top. While far from humble when he meets Cohn, Trump is still developing ...

Needless to say, Cohn was a very, very complicated man. Perhaps that’s why his story’s been explored, time and again, in popular media, from theater to film and television.

On September 10, the creators unveiled the trailer, which features Cohn teaching Trump his three success mantras. The trailer opens with Trump (Sebastian Stan) arriving to meet lawyer Roy Cohn ...

Peter King, who would go on to serve as a member of New York’s congressional delegation, was there as a young lawyer in Mr. Cohn’s firm. “It was effective, low-key,” he told me last week ...

You don’t need to understand President Trump to understand his strategy. You only need to understand Roy Cohn, the legal architect of McCarthyism and later the personal attorney and mentor to ...

As Donald Trump, his father and their company faced a race discrimination suit in the early 1970s, McCarthy-era lawyer Roy Cohn taught Trump what would become an enduring lesson. Watch an excerpt ...