A year after Succession ended, Jeremy Strong has found the perfect follow-up in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice. Strong and Sebastian Stan lead The Apprentice cast as Roy Cohn and Donald Trump, portraying the well-known real-life figures in the 1970s and ’80s, examining a historically defining mentorship. Cohn, a prosecutor known for flushing out communists in the United States government and having them served with the death penalty, passes on his “winner’s mentality” to a young Donald Trump, teaching him how to be ruthless in the world of business and politics.
