David Mamet, David Cronenberg, and Melanie Lynskey on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet — whose newest project is the film adaptation of his own 2023 play Henry Johnson. Then, director David Cronenberg stops by to talk about his latest film The Shrouds. And on The Treat, actress Melanie Lynskey celebrates a director whose collaborative process with actors is legendary.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.5	It's The Treatment.
0:15.2	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.3	You can also do this show at KCRW.com.
0:19.1	I'm lucky that my guest,
0:21.9	one of the greatest playwrights
0:23.6	in the English-speaking world,
0:24.8	who happens to be a fine director of film,
0:27.2	David Mamet's been doing this show
0:28.7	since 1999 when he came in to talk about
0:31.2	the Winslow boy.
0:32.3	Oh, yeah.
0:32.6	We've seen him pretty regularly since then,
0:35.8	not regularly enough, as far as I'm concerned.
0:38.2	He's certainly being celebrated now for yet another staging of his perennial Glenn Gary,
0:43.2	Glenn Ross on Broadway, but we're here to talk about his new film as writer and director.
0:48.5	It's an adaptation of his play. Henry Johnson, first old, David, it's always good to have you here.
0:52.8	It's great to see you again. I was... And I was telling before we got started, the first things I noticed about is just how confident
0:59.1	the filmmaking is in this.
1:01.5	And I was telling you, one of your actors, Chris Powell, who has to carry a lot of emotional
1:07.8	weight in his first scene, we don't see his face. You're actually using the camera to tell the story about how our protagonist is reacting to him. These little cuts, what he playing, we see his sort of vanity. The way he's playing with is his coat and presenting himself to get ready to do this speech. And I just thought it was such a
1:28.3	terrific piece of filmmaking just from the start. Well, thanks. I got real lucky. I met and worked
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