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I'm Terry Gross.
Today we're kicking off our End of the Year series featuring some of the 2024 interviews we particularly enjoyed, starting with a great actor.
Like many fans of HBO succession, I became a big fan of actor Jeremy Strong through his portrayal of the character Kendall Roy, one of the siblings hoping to take control of their father's media empire while the father is growing old and possibly nearing death.
Strong won an Emmy for that performance and a Tony for his recent starring role on Broadway in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.
Now Strong is starring in the film the Apprentice, which came out in October and is now available to rent for streaming.
The Apprentice refers to the young Donald Trump as he's trying to establish himself in his father's business as a real estate developer.
The person who is mentoring him in how to become successful is Trump's lawyer, the infamous Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.
Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.
Roy Cohn was known for prosecuting and winning the federal government's case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
In a controversial decision, they were sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair in 1953.
In 1954, during the communist witch hunt period, Cohn was the chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigations into the communist influence in the U.S.
cohn and McCarthy were also leaders in the anti gay movement that led to an executive order banning gay people from serving in government.
But Cohn was a closeted gay man who died of aids.
He never came out and insisted that his disease wasn't aids, it was liver cancer.