Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on Becoming Roy Cohn and Donald Trump

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan stopped by the Vogue office to tell us all about the making of one of 2024’s most controversial films, The Apprentice, which portrays the mentor/protoge relationship between the powerhouse lawyer Ray Cohn, played by Strong, and Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan. Strong and Stan share why they felt it was important to make the film, the lengths they went to to embody the characters, and what they are hoping audiences take from the film as we head into the presidential election.

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0:00.0	This is The Run Through. I'm Chloe Mal.
0:07.7	And I'm Choma Nardi.
0:09.1	And I got to see Choma in the flash last week.
0:12.9	It made me realize how sad I am the rest of the time when she's not here.
0:17.0	Me too. It was so fun to meet everybody on the team, too, to meet all of our wonderful new producers.
0:24.5	So, yeah.
0:25.0	Yeah, Choma came for a very short visit, but I feel like you got a lot done.
0:29.6	I've got a lot in.
0:30.7	It was our beloved Jesse Heyman's wedding, which was so much fun on Saturday.
0:36.1	So much fun.
0:37.1	At Cafe China. It was dim sum and then Saturday. So much fun. At Cafe China.
0:38.4	It was dim sum and then some.
0:40.3	She wore a fabulous Bevza dress.
0:44.6	Bevza, a designer we've had on a Svetlana who've had on the show.
0:48.2	And Shoma was the fitting stylist.
0:50.7	I was in Paris.
0:52.9	Yeah.
0:53.4	It was so glamorous. And it was great to see Svetlana at work. And it was a dress that just had Jesse's personality. It was very simple, but had a twist of personality. And there was a matching coat. And it was just, it was perfect. It was easy and lovely and just super chic. I know. I kind of want to do a story on like a wedding coat because Jesse's dress was strapless and had a like a form fitting bodice and then a fuller skirt.
1:21.7	But then Bev's a scent sort of as a surprise like a taffeta cream trench coat. And it was so first wives club and fabulous.
1:31.4	I loved it. And I'm like, should everyone be wearing a wedding trench? I don't know.
1:35.9	I know. For a fall wedding, it seems like an essential.
1:38.9	Fun fact, the bodice of the dress, a kind of very fitted bodice of the dress, was based on a Gunny Sacks dress that I gave Jesse.
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