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

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest in the last 10 years or so

has probably started more based on real

life films than anybody else I can think of. We go to Lincoln, Zero Dark 30. Oh, Selma,

Black Mask, the Big Short, Detroit, Molly's game, and his newest film is trial as Chicago

7. Of course, many of us know him best for his role as Emmy winning role as

Kendall Roy on succession. I am talking about my guest today, Mr. Jeremy, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you, Elvis. I'm so happy to be talking to you. A thrill to be talking to you. And I guess I should

start off by asking you about your first meeting with, I guess, with Aaron Sorkin, which would have been on Molly's game, right?

That's right.

I had done the big short with Adam McKay.

And the casting director for that movie, Francine Maisler, the sort of peerless Francine Maisler, was casting Molly's game and sent the script to me.

And at the time, the character's name was reared in green.

And he was a real, the epitome of a certain kind of L.A. hustler, you know, kind of, well, I won't characterize him negatively, but, you know,

Ed Hardy wearing kind of God. So I was staying at a friend's house, and I read Molly's game,

the book, and it talked about how Reardon drives like an asshole. He just drove extremely fast and recklessly and sort of as an

expression of his volatile sort of temperament. So I borrowed a really fast sports car from this friend I

was staying with in Malibu. And I was supposed to meet Aaron outside of the four seasons on Doheny

at a certain time. He was going to meet me in the parking lot.

So I got there ready to go and I sort of revved up and I peeled into the four seasons

as fast as I possibly could, kind of burned rubber and then tossed my keys very

carelessly out of valet without looking and then sort of waited for Aaron having seen that moment.

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