From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

Now, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an actor, a modern-day actor who's shown

in the range of my guest today, Don Cheadle.

In the roles that range from Devil and a Blue Dress to the Ocean's films to Hotel

Rwanda, you get a sense of physical being from the characters.

And his newest role in the film, Trader, is an action film that asks questions about

faith.

Don, first of all, thanks again so much for coming back.

My pleasure.

If I can ask you to explain for the audience what traders about

and kind of broad strokes, I know there are things you can't give away.

Right. Well, I guess in broad strokes, it's about a man who we're not sure who he's working for,

but is with a terrorist cell that is trying to

pull off something in the United States. And he's kind of stuck between trying to figure

out what his allegiances are to his country, his government, his religion, the woman he

loves. It's just a character who's kind of going through a real, you know, existential moment, I guess,

at existential crises in his life.

And really a crisis of faith because he's not sure where to place the faith,

not from person to person, but from institution to institution, really?

And what is the best way once you even figure out what, you know, where your allegiances

are and what your faith is, how to go about doing that when they seem to be, you know, in some

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