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

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm sitting across from a man you may know from the coop or street sweepers or whatever else you know him from

now you know him as a major filmmaker with his directing debut feature debut the film is sorry to

bother you my guest of course is boots riley thanks for being here boots hey thank you for having me

my pleasure to have you and this is the point you get to tell people the movies about it's an

absurdist dark comedy with magical realism and science fiction,

inspired by the world of telemarketing.

It's called Sorry to Bove you.

That's pretty much it.

Lekees Stanfield plays Cassius Green, who's a black telemarketer,

with self-esteem issues and existential angst,

who discovers a magical way to make

his voice sound like it's overdubbed by a white actor who's played by David Cross.

Hilarity ensues.

Yes, it does.

One of the things that I mentioned to you when you had your lack of not too long ago is that

what you do in your music and

what's happening here is there's a density to your work and it seemed to catch you off guard

when I said that. Yeah, I mean, there is and you know, yeah, it will is something that I've been

told to not do in all of my work.

You know, like, you know, there's a sense that when you put a lot of stuff in,

it's just because you don't know what to do and you're just, like,

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