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Thank you. Santa Monica and KCRW.com. It's The Treatment. Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. If you've seen films from Fear and Loathing

Las Vegas to Che, to one of my favorite films, The Way of the Gun, to his newest film, Sicario, to a recent film I had a chance to talk to him about, Escobar, Paradise, Lost.

You would look at Benicio del Toro. For me, and there's always something of the Gothic in the performances. There's something of that sort of politeness, veiling a sense of menace so often in the films.

The Academy Award winning actor is sitting across me. Benicio, thanks for being here.

Thanks, Elvis.

And there is, to me, a sense of the Gothic.

Yeah, what is that? What is it gothic?

You know that sort of sense of, like, almost those old universal, like, horror movies?

Oh, okay, okay okay okay you know there's always that sort of sense of something being sort of kept a secret being kept okay like uh you mean like the mummy yeah or the wolfman

or the wolfman yes yes yes yes yeah hey those are the my my introduction to movies where those

horror movies they used to come on Super 8, and my cousins were

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