Jeremy Strong Sees Acting As An Escape From Self

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

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Jeremy Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn in The Apprentice. The movie, he says, "explores essentially how Trump was made, and his philosophical moral framework." Strong talks with Terry Gross about playing Cohn and about playing Kendall Roy on HBO's Succession.

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0:00.0	The Indicator is a podcast where Daily Economic News is about what matters to you.
0:04.5	Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation.
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0:17.1	Make America affordable again.
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0:24.0	This is fresh air.
0:25.2	I'm Terry Gross.
0:26.6	Today, we're kicking off our end-of-the-year series, featuring some of the
0:30.3	the 2024 interviews we particularly enjoyed, starting with a great actor.
0:35.5	Like many fans of HBO Succession, I became a big fan of actor Jeremy Strong through his portrayal of the character Kendall Roy, one of the siblings hoping to take control of their father's media empire while the father is growing old and possibly nearing death.
0:51.7	Strong won an Emmy for that performance and a Tony for his recent starring role
0:56.0	on Broadway in Ipsons An Enemy of the People. Now Strong is starring in the film The Apprentice,
1:01.9	which came out in October and is now available to rent for streaming. The Apprentice refers to the young
1:08.4	Donald Trump as he's trying to establish himself in his father's business as a real estate developer.
1:14.1	The person who is mentoring him and how to become successful is Trump's lawyer, the infamous Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.
1:22.3	Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.
1:25.9	Roy Cohn was known for prosecuting and winning the federal government's case
1:29.7	against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
1:35.3	In a controversial decision, they were sentenced to death
1:38.3	and executed in the electric chair in 1953.
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