Fellow Travelers: How Roy Cohn Got That Scar On His Nose — NewsBreak

One of the most notorious characters in Showtime’s Fellow Travelers has an unusual scar on his nose, which is based on a true story. The dramatized depiction of the real-life leader of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee of Investigations features authentic aspects of Cohn’s personality, actions, and overall appearance.

Portrayed by actor Will Brill, Roy Cohn has emerged as one of the most intriguing characters in Fellow Travelersparticularly due to the special privileges he offers to David Schine in helping him dodge the draft despite not having any genuine professional or political reason to do so.

Fellow Travelers episode 3 episode 3 “Hit Me” hinted at Cohn’s unfortunate but true backstory of how Cohn ended up with a sizable scar on his nose for the rest of his life. The episode also reveals how Hawk got a scar on his back while he was fighting in Italy during WWII.

Hawks explained to Tim during a spontaneous weekend getaway that he and a small group of soldiers were pinned down by two enemy Krupp K5 artillery guns, which is how he got his scar. Cohn, on the other hand, received his scar through far less heroic means in comparison to Hawk. As Fellow Traveler episode 3 portrays, Cohn couldn’t reconcile with the scar even decades after he had gotten it.

Roy Cohn’s Mother Made Him Get Rhinoplastic Surgery

Cohn grew up as part of a wealthy family in the Bronx, New York, and had an atypically close relationship with his mother, Dora Marcus. Cohn reportedly lived with his mother as an adult male until she died in 1967, which indicates how influential she was in his decisions, appearance, and just about every aspect of his life. Dora was known to be very conscious of her public image as the wife of Albert C. Cohn, an Assistant District Attorney who eventually became an Appellate Judge of the New York Supreme Court.

Dora was also concerned about the appearance of her only child, Roy Cohn. Having reportedly not liked the look of Roy’s nose as an adolescent, she scheduled her son for a rhinoplasty procedure that went sideways and ended up disfiguring him for life. Even after multiple attempts at rhinoplasty surgery, Cohn was unable to cover up the large scar and would be forced to live with it. Cohn was later discovered to be deeply insecure throughout his life and a closeted homosexual, dying of complications due to AIDS in 1986.

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