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I saw her face change. I saw her see where I'd pulled my hair out.

Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks.

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

Welcome to the treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell. I guess it's 24 years ago that strictly ballroom sort of blew up.

Don't say that, Elvis.

Don't say that. Okay, but I don't say it's

going to be even quieter than it normally isn't a show. But in the interim, since then,

he has done, let's see now, Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Australia, the Great Gatsby.

He's now come to television or to streaming devices near you with this series The Get Down.

First of all, it's always a pleasure to have you. Thanks much you're doing this. Great, this is great to be here.

And I guess I think I've always been struck by for you is that

there's always a generational schism in your work.

I mean, there's all, and the parents almost always represent the past.

Yes.

I mean, they can't see four. They almost always represent the past. I mean, thinking back to the parents, Paul McCutio's parents, the opening section of Strictly Ballroom.

They look like they're from 30 years earlier, like they haven't changed in 30 years.

I wonder for you where that comes to the idea of generational things being the tensions.

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