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The Treatment

Gina Prince-Bythewood: "The Old Guard"

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood found a project that fit into many of the themes she's explored in her films going back to her debut, 2000's "Love & Basketball" in, of all places, the pages of an action-adventure graphic novel. She talks about how her upcoming Netflix feature, "The Old Guard", connected many of the dots for her on "The Treatment".

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0:00.0

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

0:14.6

Welcome to the home edition of the treatment.

0:16.3

In another episode, I'm Elvis Mitchell, talking to my guest from her home somewhere out there in the world.

0:22.2

She was last here for the series Shots Fire, but of course, you know her from 20 years ago.

0:27.4

She made her feature film debut with the film Love and Basketball.

0:31.6

This new piece of hers, which debuts on Netflix this week, the old art, the adaptation of the Greg Rucker, forgive me, graphic novel, actually feels like in a lot of ways like a companion piece to that.

0:42.6

And I'll ask you about them.

0:43.6

My guess, of course, is Gina Prince, Gina, so good to have you back.

0:47.3

Great to be back.

0:48.2

I do think, though, interesting because one of the things I think kind of connects these two things in a way is that they're both about

0:54.5

women owning their physicality in a way that's not sexualized at all, but about relationship

1:00.6

between women and professionalism.

1:03.1

And I'm sure that's something you brought to it because that's not something specifically

1:06.6

that's in the comic.

1:07.9

Yeah, 100%.

1:09.3

I love the fact that Monica is in some ways tied to these characters,

1:16.4

Andy and Ile in the old guard, and that, you know, so much of Monica was, and honestly, because

1:23.4

she was so much of me, this fight to be able to be myself, to not be thought of as

1:29.7

different or that there was something wrong with me because I love sports, because I love

1:33.9

the physicality, because I love to be ambitious and aggressive and go after things. I wanted,

1:41.5

that's all Monica. And now, you know, 20 years later, we have Andy and

1:45.8

Nile, these two women who are warriors innately, but it's celebrated in this respect. So I almost

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