Jeremy Strong Says ‘We’re Living in a World Where Truth Is Under Assault’ in Cannes Statement

Jeremy Strong, who plays the vicious lawyer Roy Cohn in Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night because of commitments on Broadway. But the “Succession” actor sent a written statement excoriating Trump and Cohn, which Abbasi read at Cannes on Tuesday.

“I deeply wish I could be there with you right now but I am on stage in New York doing Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘An Enemy of the People,’” he said. “‘Enemy of the People’ is a phrase that has been used by Stalin, Mao, Goebbels and, most recently, by Donald Trump, when he denounced the free press and called the ‘fake news media’ — CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and The New York Times — an ‘Enemy of the People.’”