Ethan Hawke, Nabil Ayers, and for The Treat: an unforgettable lobster dinner

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with actor and director Ethan Hawke to talk about Hawke’s newest project, the HBO Max documentary series “The Last Movie Stars” about actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Next, writer and musician Nabil Ayers joins to discuss his memoir “My Life in the Sunshine.” And on The Treat, LA chef Neal Fraser explains why a lobster dinner showed him food could be more than just fuel.

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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.
0:15.4	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.2	Most of us have just been watching lots of stuff during the Van Temic.
0:20.4	My guest, Ethan Hawke, has been making lots of stuff.
0:22.6	He's been The Grabber in the Black Phone, which you can see now.
0:25.1	He's Arthur Harrow in Moon Knight.
0:26.8	He was King in a Norse.
0:28.4	He was Nikola Tesla for God's X.
0:30.6	He worked with Abel Ferraris squeezed one of those in during the pandemic. and was John Brown in the terrific adaptation of The Good Lord Burr, which he was also show running on because it wasn't enough just acting a bunch of TV.
0:41.6	And now he's directing the terrific docu-series on HBO Max, The Last Movie, Stars.
0:47.2	Ethan, I'd love to talk to you, but I think we're out of time with that introduction.
0:50.3	I'm sorry, take care of yourself.
0:51.6	Okay.
0:54.9	Well, it's so much to talk to you about here, man.
0:56.6	But one of the things is really interesting, and I just was thinking about this is something
1:00.2	that weirdly connects to the black phone and the last movie star, which I was thinking
1:04.2	about voices.
1:05.5	And that performance in black phone, it's almost like he's talking to himself in a weird way. He's so in his own
1:13.2	head. The conversation seems to be just with him. And certainly in the last movie stars, we're aware
1:19.5	the quality of voices so often in this, aren't we? It's so interesting that you say that,
1:24.3	because the Black Phone, that was true for me in my approach to that part.
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