Stan as a young Donald Trump and Strong as his mentor Roy Cohn are absolutely gripping in director Ali Abbasi's less-than-flattering cinematic portrait.

“The Apprentice,” directed by the Iranian-Danish filmmaker Abbasi and scripted by Gabriel Sherman, puts the Cohn-Trump relationship at its center, and in doing so, gives Strong and Stan two of the best roles of their careers. Strong calls Cohn “probably the single most fascinating person I’ve ever studied and interrogated and attempted to inhabit.”