When Jeremy Strong signed on to play Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witchfinder general Roy Cohn in The Apprentice—a man who maintained a full-body tan year-round, collected ornamental frogs, and taught Donald Trump everything he knows about attacking, denying, and lying—he never imagined that Trump would be reelected. This wasn’t really the point; the film wasn’t supposed to be a political polemic. To him, it was a Frankenstein story: a character study about the making of a monster. That we are talking in the corner booth of a closed cocktail bar in London’s Covent Garden just weeks after the monster was inaugurated for the second time is not something Strong expected to happen. But the world got weirder while he waited.
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