Like many in this country, the day after the 2016 election, filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer was shocked to learn that Donald Trump had won the presidency. And that day, he decided to make a film about Roy Cohn, a lawyer best known as Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army-McCarthy hearings.
Many know about Cohn’s influence on politics, but less know of his unusual upbringing and how he served as a mentor to those like Roger Stone and Donald Trump. So with that in mind, Tyrnauer set out to make his documentary, “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”
“I thought all that year that Trump would not be President and Roy Cohn would be a footnote in history,” Tyrnauer told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered last January.