Jeremy Strong / Sebastian Stan / Adrien Brody

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Academy Awards are this Sunday. We hear from the two stars of the film The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. It's about how a young Donald Trump was influenced by the infamous, unscrupulous lawyer Roy Cohn.

Also, we hear from Adrien Brody, who is nominated for his starring role in the film The Brutalist, in which he plays a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who seeks a fresh start in post-WWII America.

John Powers reviews the animated film Flow, which has been nominated for both best animated feature and best international film.

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0:00.0	This message comes from David Tennant does a podcast with, back for season three.
0:04.8	David Tennant returns to sit down with superstar guests like Russell T. Davies, Jamila Jamil, and Stanley Tucci.
0:11.3	New season streaming now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.7	Support for NPR, and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn,
0:19.2	thanking the people who make public radio great every day
0:22.5	and also those who listen.
0:25.2	This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. and Cooley. The Academy Awards are Sunday. Today, we feature
0:31.2	interviews with three nominees. First, actor Jeremy Strong. He's probably best known for his role in the HBO series
0:38.8	Succession, playing the troubled character of Kendall Roy. In the film The Apprentice, Strong is
0:44.8	nominated for his role as the unscrupulous lawyer Roy Cohn, who mentored a young Donald
0:49.8	Trump as he was establishing himself in his father's real estate business. In the 1950s, Cohn was infamous for being the chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate
1:00.0	investigation into suspected communists.
1:03.8	Cohn and McCarthy also were leaders in the anti-gay movement that led to an executive order
1:08.6	banning gay people from serving in government.
1:11.6	But Cohn was a closeted gay man who died of AIDS.
1:15.3	He never came out and insisted that his disease wasn't AIDS but was liver cancer.
1:21.3	Strong's performance personifies what was written about Cohn on his patch on the AIDS Memorial
1:26.2	Quilt, bully, coward, victim.
1:30.2	Terry spoke with Jeremy Strong last October.
1:33.3	Let's begin with a scene from early in the film when Trump and Cohn first meet.
1:38.7	Trump has just gotten accepted to a private dining club in Manhattan.
1:42.8	Cone is seated at a table with several mobsters,
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