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The Treatment

Ciara Bravo: “Cherry”

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Actress Ciara Bravo on discovering her characters’ secrets.

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0:00.0

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

0:14.7

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. In the explosive new adaptation of the novel Cherry, which is now a new film by the Russo Brothers,

0:23.8

we get a chance to see the impact at one of its talented stars makes, who's done quite a few interesting things lately.

0:30.6

And I think as an actor, what's so interesting about Sarah Bravo is that she is able to take the way people regard her and turn that into performance.

0:39.2

If we look at To the Bone with a long, long, dumb road or cherry, you can see she understands the way people look at her characters and is able to use that as an actor.

0:48.4

So first of all, thank you so much for doing the show.

0:50.8

Thank you so much for having me. I think that's one of the most thoughtful

0:54.5

comments I've ever received. I think one of the things that's really interesting to me about you as an

0:59.7

actor is that, is that you have an understanding of the way people pay attention to the characters

1:03.9

you play and how they deal with that kind of regard. I mean, because I just think about how Tracy

1:09.8

into the bone was just trying to disappear in front of people. Yeah, completely. I mean, because I just think about how Tracy into the bone was just trying to disappear in front of people.

1:13.1

Yeah, completely.

1:14.3

I mean, I think that's an important part to playing any character,

1:17.5

but because I think that's almost how I, for a while, not so much anymore,

1:23.5

but operated in my own world to an extent.

1:27.3

I think being in this business, it's like,

1:28.9

okay, how do people perceive me and how can I, how does that make me want to operate? How does,

1:34.3

you know, how can I use that to my, the best of my abilities? Maybe that has something to do

1:39.7

with it. I'm not sure. I was wondering where that came from. That was something just growing up, the way you observed people and the way they kind of moved in terms of the way people looked at them and reacted to them, or if that's from some training for you?

1:53.3

Because it feels like as much a kind of an instinctive thing as anything else.

1:58.3

Yeah.

1:58.7

I mean, I would certainly consider, of course, I've worked in countless

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