From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. At this year's Sundance Film Festival,

I interviewed the principles of Love

Brooklyn, the romantic comedy. I spoke to Nicole Bihari, DeWanda Wise, Rory Wood Jr., and Andre Holland,

who also co-produced. First of all, Andre got this thing made, and a mutual friend of ours

kicked this thing in the gear, giving him a film,

making career the same way he did for me. Let's talk about how Steven Soderberg got on this. Yeah, man. Thank you for your kind of words, man. I appreciate you. And thank you for having us here. It means so much. And you know, you mean so much to the community, man. And just thank you for the support. Yeah, you know, Stephen and I, our relationship started back on the Nick. And, uh,

you know, from i our relationship started back on the nick and uh you know from day one he was not only a

wonderful director but was also just really open and generous and you know i had a lot of questions

about filmmaking and about producing and he was very like hey man come on let me let me tell you

what i know and not many people will do that you know

there's a lot of gatekeeping and a lot of people who don't want to share information but he wasn't

like that so uh we finished the nick together while we were on the nick i had this idea about a

basketball movie and so i pitched him that and he you know was willing to listen we developed that

movie ended up making it was called high flying bird you know with You know, with this movie, oh, thanks, man. And then with this one, this script came along five, almost six years ago, Elvis. And, you know, we pitched it around town and tried to get people to give us some money to do it and support us. And I don't think people saw the vision for it that I saw, that Rachel, Rachel our director saw that this cast saw and I

you know met Stephen at brandy library one night and we were talking about it and uh he said tell me

the story I told him he said who's involved I told him he said let me read it sent it to him

the next day he called he said all right start tomorrow and you know put some money up. My company put some money up and together.

We managed to get it financed and off we went.

But it's a really interesting movie because it's a movie about people who are kind of who they are when we meet them.

They just have to understand who they are themselves, which I think so often movies force change on us.

And these are people who kind of know who they are,

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