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The Treatment

Diablo Cody

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From the blogosphere to an Oscar (Juno) to Showtime. It’s quite a career for screenwriter Diablo Cody. Her series, The United States of Tara, looks at multiple personalities. She just might know something about that.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:14.1

Welcome to The Treatment.

0:15.3

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:16.0

You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

0:18.4

Let's see.

0:19.1

Entertainment Weekly columnist, blogger, autobiographer, Oscar winner.

0:23.7

What hasn't Diablo Cody done? Well, besides this show, she hadn't done cable, but now she's

0:27.9

got a new series on Showtime, the United States of Tara. Diablo, thanks so much for doing this.

0:31.8

Thank you. Thank you for having me. Oh, my pleasure. As I was watching the show, I found myself

0:36.6

thinking about a line from Candy Girl when you talk about vulnerability.

0:41.4

And it just sort of stuck to me, just watching the show, just about those moments transition for Tara, who has multiple personality disorder.

0:50.5

Those seem like incredibly exciting like, vulnerable like Achilles heels moments to me.

0:54.0

Those moments where we see her going,

0:56.4

just the shift starting to happen or her coming out of it.

0:59.0

Yeah. Donie Collette is also, she's so skilled at portraying

1:02.4

those moments of vulnerability.

1:04.5

There is a common theme in my work, and I think it's interesting that you brought

1:08.4

up Candy Girl because it's not something people talk about that much. Why? Because I mean it's a slim memoir about stripping.

1:18.4

You sold me? I'll go read it again.

1:22.6

You know, it's kind of a beach read even though, you know, I'm proud of it. But, yeah, I'm always interested in women and the different sort of persona.

1:33.1

The guises they take on.

1:34.1

Yeah, the guys is that they take on.

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