Best Of: Jeremy Strong / Will & Harper's Roadtrip Across America

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🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jeremy Strong played Kendall Roy on HBO's Succession. He's now starring in The Apprentice, as Donald Trump's unscrupulous lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn. Strong says the film examines the playbook Cohn passed on to Trump: "Always attack, deny everything and never admit defeat."

Also, Will Ferrrell and his friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele, talk about the road trip they took after Harper came out as a trans woman. Their trip is the subject of the new Netflix documentary, Will & Harper.

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0:30.0	Today after Jeremy Strong, he played Kendall Roy on HBO's succession.
0:35.5	He's now starring in The Apprentice as Donald Trump's unscrupulous lawyer and mentor Roy
0:40.7	Cohn.
0:41.9	Strong says the film examines the playbook, Cohn passed on to Trump.
0:45.5	Always attack, deny everything, and never admit defeat.
0:50.7	Also, Will Farrell and his friend and former S. N. defeat. explaining she was coming out as a trans woman.
1:03.0	In the last 10 years, I've been trying to understand what's going on.
1:07.0	I tried to get rid of it over and over again throughout my life.
1:10.0	And now I'm giving up the fight.
1:12.0	Their road trip is the subject of the and now I'm giving up the fight.
1:18.0	Their road trip is the subject of the new Netflix documentary, Will and Harper.
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