Jeff Daniels, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and Ava DuVernay on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with Emmy winning actor Jeff Daniels to discuss his latest project, the Netflix series adaptation Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. Next, Heeramandi director Sanjay Leela Bhansali joins to talk about his Netflix series and his robust career in Indian cinema. And for The Treat, Oscar nominated director Ava DuVernay talks about the 1993 film she always watches before beginning a new project.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	It's The Treatment.
0:15.2	It's The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. After so many times talking to him from across the country,
0:19.2	we finally persuaded Jeff Daniels to come join us here in the studio.
0:23.7	His newest project for Netflix is an adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1988,
0:28.1	A Man in Full, by David E. Kelly.
0:31.2	So good to have you back here, Jeff.
0:32.4	Thanks so much.
0:33.1	Glad to be here.
0:34.1	And you're playing a character known as Kepham in the book Charlie Croker.
0:41.2	Yes, I was unfamiliar with the book when Regina King and David Kelly came to me and then read it
0:48.7	immediately and went, oh boy, oh boy, this is fun. This is going to be fun. He's a larger-than-life character,
0:57.3	a real estate tycoon in Atlanta. Based on, I later found out, two or three people in Atlanta.
1:05.4	I always thought it was Donald Trump, but it wasn't Donald Trump. It was, and I think that's part of
1:09.0	what makes this relevant today, because David kind of
1:12.5	updated it to now.
1:14.5	But it's a guy, it's a real estate tycoon who uses other people's money, the banks,
1:20.9	to build another building.
1:24.1	And at the same time, kind of siphoning it.
1:26.9	You know, I get a $100 million loan from a certain bank
1:29.7	and then spend $20 million on a plane
1:31.7	and another $8 million on a quail plantation.
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