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

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. We've all come to know actor Jeff Daniels as a flap or a Lloyd, but in the

past decade or so, we've come to know him for playing men with Gravitas, some of them real-life

figures, such as his turn as FBI director James Comey and the Showtime miniseries, the Comey Rule.

Fellow Michiganan Jeff Daniels, welcome to the show.

Good to talk to you, Elvis.

I find myself thinking, like, in watching the Comey Rule, or I was even thinking about

the Looming Tower, when you play characters who I think for you are kind of uncharacteristically

quieter than what you're seeing you do, what's that like for you?

Because Comey is somebody who sits in wait a lot, isn't it?

He listened a lot, and he was a good listener, and he probably is a hell of a poker player,

because those guys have to have that kind of deadpan kind of no tell at all.

And certainly that was what came away, working in researching to get to get him up. And so it really became about a portrayal of thinking your way through it. I mean,

you always say that. Actors always say that. But in this case, it really was

true because even back in October 2016, when the Hillary email case was reopened, I remember thinking

something like, what is he thinking? And this shows you what he was thinking. And I learned a lot

researching and how he really was between a rock

and a hard place and had to choose what he felt was right, what was true, what was he was supposed

to do, politics aside. And that thinking your way through getting to those big decisions in the movie was all I was doing.

That's all.

I hung every day.

I just hung my coat on think your way through the scene.

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