Jeremy Stronghas weighed in on the long-running discourse around casting straight actors in gay roles.

Yes, its absolutely valid, he told theLos Angeles Times.

Thats your job as an actor.

Jeremy Strong poses on a red carpet.

Jeremy StrongValerie Terranova/FilmMagic

The task, in a way, is to render something that is not necessarily your native habitat.

The movie also starsMartin Donovanas Fred Trump Sr., andMaria Bakalovaas Ivana Trump.

Although he denied his diagnosis, Cohn died of AIDS-related complications in 1986.

Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in The Apprentice movie

Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump inThe Apprentice.Briarcliff

I certainly dont do these things just for my own self-aggrandizement.

But the letter appears to have been fruitless as the titlewent on to screenatTelluride Film Festivalin August.