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

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's always a pleasure to watch somebody perform whose pleasure in performing radiates from what they do,

be it somebody like Lady Gaga or Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, or my guest, Man Singer

Across for me, Giancarla Esposito, whose pleasure as an actor always comes through in the roles.

We know him recently from his working dystopian stuff, such as Revolution or the maze runner films.

He's also the newest maze runner film, The Death Cure.

But 30 years ago, this year, he exploded on the screen with a little movie called School Days.

Junkalo, thanks for being here.

Pleasure to be here with you.

I've always been struck by that thing in you, though, that I can see your

pleasure in acting come through when you're working. Well, I'm so happy about that because I always

remind myself, at least especially lately, how much I still love it. I've become a director

since in the last five years, but my preference is always to act, and there's something inside of

me that wants to raise the level of consciousness of people,

telling a story, bringing them from one place to another,

and having them arrive there, not knowing how they got there,

but knowing that they witnessed something that happened, something beautiful, something tragic, something expressive, something desirous.

To me, that's what it's about.

Also, too, I've so often noticed in your characters you play, you're talking about directing

as 10 years ago of Gospel Hill, you're a directorial debut, and how watchful you tend to be

as a character. Your characters tend to be pretty wary people, don't that?

They do.

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