Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lulu Wang, and David Levien and Brian Koppelman on The Treat
The Treatment
KCRW
4.8 • 36 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who is up for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Alexander Payne’s 2023 film The Holdovers. Then, director and showrunner Lulu Wang talks about her new Prime Video series Expats, starring Nicole Kidman. And for The Treat, Billions co-creators David Levien and Brian Koppelman talk about a dark 1990 film that changed the way they saw movies.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the Treatment. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm thrilled to welcome my Golden Globe winner, a Tony nominee, who she's a Golden Globe |
| 0:21.6 | winner, of course, for her work in Alexander Payne's holdovers. |
| 0:26.3 | My guest is Devine Joy Randolph. |
| 0:28.8 | I've seen her on Broadway. |
| 0:30.2 | I was interested in seeing what you're going to do with Otomai and Ghost. |
| 0:33.6 | And you just sort of came in and took the stage in this completely unselfconscious way. |
| 0:39.1 | And so when you got inhabited, it was like, wow. |
| 0:42.7 | Because, you know, you've done this. |
| 0:44.4 | You play characters that we've seen before. |
| 0:47.1 | You did Lady Read and Dolomite is my name and then doing a domain ghost. |
| 0:51.5 | I wonder what it was like for you taking on these characters that people think that they know. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm very physical. |
| 0:58.2 | Someone like Martin Lawrence and what he contributed in the canon of the Martin show, |
| 1:03.2 | that kind of full body, full involvement of the space is something that I really connect with |
| 1:10.8 | or another person in comedy that I can |
| 1:12.8 | think of of like a Jack Black, which is what it was something that was really fun for me, |
| 1:17.2 | in particular for high fidelity. In regards to expectations, I will say this. I have a certain |
| 1:24.6 | standard, a mode of proficiency and work ethic in which I derive from |
| 1:32.6 | at all times. And that's me trying to bring the best quality, no matter what the role is, |
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