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.

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 ...

Long before businessman and former President Donald Trump was firing contestants on his NBC reality show, The Apprentice, he was an apprentice himself.. In 1973, a young Trump met Roy Cohn — a ...

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).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gabriel Sherman on “The Apprentice,” his coming-of-age film about Trump. There are “parts of the film that I could imagine Donald Trump liking,” Sherman says.

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 ...

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 ...