From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.

It's the treatment.

Finally, sitting before me mere inches away, I have sitting nearby the playwright and

provocateur Jeremy O'Harris, actor I should say as well.

He is here with Pete O's there here to talk about this incredible film they've done, Yerubska,

which takes place in Poland.

First of all, Jeremy, thanks so much for being here.

But the movie reminds me so much about your theater work, where it's about the way sexual

appetites affect the way people live their lives. And I want to ask you a little bit about that, because you guys also wrote the film together, too, with one of your stars, well, two of your stars wrote the film with you. But the way these appetites affect people is really kind of central to your work. Well, I think that, like, it's central to life, right?

I mean, we're all here because people have, like, carnal desires, right?

Like, and so I think that it becomes a part of the texture of how we talk about the lives

we're living.

And I think what was so great about meeting Pete at the moment when I met him is that, like,

our lives were both starting to like,

like sort of like be surrounded by the same questions, right? Like we're both like young men

of a certain age, right? Like we're still young, but we're like, but we're also like coming on

to that space in middle age where most of the people in our lives are having kids and getting

married or getting divorced.

And I think that, like, talking to Pete of when we started making the doc for the Slave Play doc,

about just, like, the changes in my life, the changes in his life.

And then as he invited me to be in our first collaborative film together,

the tribute being bitten by a tick, we kept seeing

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