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

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

My guest has made, I think, a career out of keeping secrets and about holding things into herself that becomes part of the performance.

You think about her terrific work in, if these walls could talk, or in the Scarlet Letter, where Hester Pritt has her keep a lot to herself.

She's playing a character who has to keep everything to herself in the substance,

which competed at the Cannes Film Festival, and she is now an Academy Award nominee for the best

actors. I'm, of course, talking to the legendary Demi Moore. I'd like to talk to you, but we're out of

time with the introduction, so drive safely. I can't thank you know for doing this. But you've done this. You've played so many characters who've had to keep so much to themselves.

And this is a, what's a remarkable about this performance as Elizabeth?

Is that a lot of it's silent.

Yeah.

It was a very kind of interesting exploration that I think at first read because the script was very detailed. So I felt the

fullness of it and it didn't really completely hit me how little dialogue and more importantly

that I didn't have the benefit, very little benefit of feeding off another actor and how different

that was going to be. And so really, it kind of shifted my preparation of really knowing that if I

wanted this to be alive in every moment, that my prep work really needed to be as detailed as the

visual exploration was in the script.

And by that, I mean that my connection, my references, because I was going to be in dialogue with myself in silence.

And so it was a very interesting experience and also just that level of intimacy that we have when we're alone with ourselves, looking in a mirror, when nobody else is looking, the thoughts we have, the places we go.

But it was, it made it such a, like a captivating idea to kind of pour myself into challenging for sure.

I cannot imagine that it wasn't, but there's so much, I mean, there's a sort of an eating

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