Thoughts on Watching "The Apprentice" + A Connection to "A Complete Unknown"
Written by Gabriel Sherman and directed by Ali Abbasi , The Apprentice is, in many ways, a (very) tough watch for someone like me who hates the orange turd with a passion. I opted to check it out because (a) in large part, it's about how the horrific lawyer Roy Cohn (an excellent Jeremy Strong , best known for his work as Kendall Roy in Succession ) molded Trump in his own image and (b) I think Sebastian Stan, who plays the turd, is outstanding. As a side note, if you haven't seen Stan in the exceptionally creepy mini-series Fresh , it's definitely worth checking out. And if you're not familiar with Cohn's anti-democratic work as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950's, you can read about it HERE . I found The Apprentice fascinating, even though it didn't tell me much I didn't already know, and I'm not at all surprised that they had trouble finding American distribution (I saw a screener as a member of Film Independent). The...