Just shy of a month into Donald Trump’s second presidency, Jeremy Strong is seeing “The Apprentice” in a new light.
In a new cover story with GQ, Strong spoke about how the themes of Ali Abbasi’s Trump origin story — for which he is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Trump mentor Roy Cohn — have taken on increased relevance to him, as he sees Trump’s behavior in office as a natural extension of the lessons that Cohn taught him in the 1980s.