Dan Levy, Andrew Haigh, and Leslie Odom, Jr. on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with Emmy-winning writer, director, and actor Dan Levy, whose follow up to the much loved comedy series Schitt’s Creek is the Netflix film Good Grief. Levy wrote, directed and stars in the film. Next, director Andrew Haigh joins to talk about his latest film, the high-concept drama All of Us Strangers. And on The Treat, Tony winning actor Leslie Odom, Jr. talks about a rapper he’d like to see on Broadway.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.3	It's The Treatment.
0:15.3	It's the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's been a while since my guest was last year.
0:18.6	It was the second season of Schist Creek,
0:21.6	which was only carried on pop TV here in the States.
0:24.2	But since that show,
0:25.8	Daniel Levy has gone on to make quite a career for himself
0:28.3	and had quite a career before that.
0:30.6	His newest project for Netflix,
0:32.5	which he wrote, directed, and stars in,
0:34.4	and I'm guessing picked all the music,
0:36.2	is the film Good Grief, Dan.
0:38.2	Thanks so much for being here.
0:39.5	I'm so happy to be back. How are you?
0:41.7	I'm happy to be talking to you. And it's so funny because I think about the beginning of Schitt's Creek where they're sitting on that sofa and that portraits being taken away from them.
0:50.9	And both these projects start with a home being pulled away from a protagonist.
0:55.5	Interesting that. I wonder what that says. That's something I have to take to a therapist.
1:01.6	I don't know what that is. You've just cracked open a whole portal of self-discovery.
1:07.8	Okay. I'll take that. That sounds very like a compliment. But I think it's fascinating
1:13.1	because these have both been two projects that, in their way, have dealt with grief and
1:17.7	enormous loss. And one is played for comedy. And the other is played for, I think,
1:22.7	comic melodrome. I think it's fascinating. These are two areas that you've returned to as a writer.
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