Terry this is FRESH air.
I'm Terry Gross.
My guest, Sebastian Stan is nominated for an Oscar for his starring role as Donald Trump in the film the Apprentice.
It begins in 1973, when Trump is 27,
still working for his father's real estate development company and trying to make a name for himself.
The company is being sued for discriminating against black people in its rental units.
Trump convinces his father to hire Roy Cohn as their attorney.
Cohen was infamous for being the chief counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy's Senate investigation into suspected communists.
Cohen becomes Trump's mentor, teaching him how to admit nothing and deny everything,
go on the attack and intimidate through the threat of lawsuits or through actually filing lawsuits.
Cohn is played by Jeremy Strong, who's also nominated for an Oscar.
Last month, Stan won a Golden Globe for his starring role in A Different man,
as a man who's disfigured by a genetic condition that has grown fleshy, too.
The tumors disappear after taking a new drug and he emerges quite attractive,
but remains alienated and withdrawn from other people.
In the film I Tonya Sebastian Stan played Tonya Harding's boyfriend who plots to disable her ice skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan.
In the miniseries Pam and Tommy.
He played Tommy Lee, Motley Crue's drummer and Pamela Anderson's husband.
A lot of Stan's fans know him from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Bucky Barnes,
a recurring character in the Captain America films.