From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

My guest, James McAvoy, clearly one of the best actors in the world.

Without a doubt. Without too many dotes from myself.

You know, as long as you don't doubt it, that's the important thing.

But let's just take a look at the career. Let's see now.

From Starter for Ten to Wanted, from Welcome to the Punch to Atonement, from Laskin' Scotland to, well, let's see, X-Men first class,

from X-Men Days of Future Pass to Filth.

His career has spanned a lot of ground, not only that, but in almost every instance,

he's worked in material, attracted to material, I think that deals with emotional violence.

Would you say that's true?

Yeah,

I would actually.

You know,

maybe some of them don't,

but I am attracted to,

to dynamic moments in people's lives

and to,

I suppose,

trauma and all that kind of stuff.

Especially the last couple of years,

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