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Culkin aside, Strong isnt even the guaranteed runner-up in his category.
Guy Pearce might secretly be the best thing about Brady CorbetsThe Brutalist.
(Watch Borisov in Juho Kuosmanensmasterful 2021 dramaCompartment No.
6to see what he can do with a bigger role.)
Overall, the film has gotten a mixed reception, and Strongs character is pretty detestable.
It shows how Cohn instilled his facts-be-damned, dignity-is-overrated, win-at-all-costs philosophy into the impressionable, nascent real-estate mogul.
The film also portrays how an ascendant Trump cast Cohn off once the attorney came down with AIDS.
As Cohn, Strong goes big in a way very few actors are able to do convincingly nowadays.
Instead, Strong crosses a broad impression of the real Cohn with an almost surreal animalistic intensity.
Strong turns the subtext of the character into the text of the performance.
This is like no human weve ever met and therein lies his fascination, and Strongs creativity.
Its a dangerous gamble.
One could easily be accused of overacting, of doing too much.
to the thundering skies.
Watching him, we experience both comic and tragic anticipation.
We dont know what hell do or say next, so were riveted.
To do that, Jeremy Strong has to cast a spell over us.
To be fair, the picture itself doesnt really work, but its not because of Strongs performance.
Left to his own devices, the Donald of this movie is not a particularly interesting monster.
(Culkinmight be one of these, but so are people like Tom Cruise or Timothee Chalamet.)
Some actors revel in the precision of their performances.
(The young Daniel Day-Lewis was one, as was Laurence Olivier.)
(Think Marlon Brando or Philip Seymour Hoffman.)
He wont win that Oscar, but immortality is within reach.
