You never really know what you’re gonna get with a Jeremy Strong interview. In some, he gets distracted musing over whether “the self is a discrete, fixed thing,” and he spends others shouting out his all-brown,

The "Apprentice" star said he doesn't think "it’s necessary" for gay people to be played by gay actors, but that there should be a level playing field.

Strong appears as disgraced, closeted lawyer and Donald Trump mentor Roy Cohn in the new film. For straight actors, playing queer has often led to plaudits and accolades that elude out actors tackling queer roles.

Jeremy Strong recently told the Los Angeles Times that “it’s absolutely valid” to criticize straight actors for playing gay characters, although he also strongly believes that it’s an actor’s job “to render something that is not necessarily your native habitat.

Succession actor Jeremy Strong has said that criticism of him playing a gay man in the new Donald Trump biopic, The Apprentice is “absolutely valid”. Strong plays Roy Cohn in the film, the attorney who supported Donald Trump in his early days as a young real estate entrepreneur.

Jeremy Strong has chimed in on the long-running discourse around casting straight actors in gay roles. After portraying Donald Trump‘s gay mentor Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, premiering Oct. 11 in theaters,

The Apprentice' star Jeremy Strong thinks it is "valid" to criticise straight actors who take on gay roles.