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The Treatment

Jon Hamm, Brett Morgen, and director Gina Prince-Bythewood on the song that’s always on her writing playlist

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with Emmy winning actor Jon Hamm, who is currently starring in the mystery comedy “Confess, Fletch.” Next, director Brett Morgen discusses his latest documentary “Moonage Daydream” about the late David Bowie. And on The Treat, “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood reveals the Lauryn Hill song that’s on repeat when she’s working. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

If like me and you're a fan of Emmy winning actor John Hamm and you happen to see a little show called Madman. You might have had a moment where you saw him early in the show's run where he had to slip out of his paramour

0:27.2

Mitch's apartment, and the police were in the hallways, and he said, well, I've got my disguise.

0:33.1

It was at that moment I thought, this guy could play Fletch.

0:35.9

And so a little while later now, in theaters

0:39.6

and soon on pay-per-view, he'll be playing Fletch in the second of the Fletch books, although the

0:46.1

third of the Fletch movies just confess Fletch. If I've confused people enough, I'll bring in

0:50.1

John Hamm. John, thanks so much you're doing this.

0:53.7

It's my pleasure to be here, sir. It's nice to finally make good on the promise that I

1:00.7

probably made, I don't know, 10 years ago, as we discussed. Oh, at least, but I'm not going to

1:06.0

hold it to you. Thank God. Nobody's recording this. But I did think of that about that moment.

1:13.0

And I don't know if you remember that.

1:14.0

I'm sure it's actually come up with you and other interviews before.

1:16.9

At that moment where Don does that,

1:19.6

I thought, yeah, that's a very fetch kind of a move,

1:21.7

basically sort of playing people's expectations of him

1:24.6

and turning them into something else.

1:26.5

Yes, I agree.

1:28.1

Matthew Weiner on that show, obviously the creator of the show, very, very smart guy,

1:34.5

but also a wildly funny guy and got his start in writing sitcoms, basically.

1:40.5

And so his sense of humor pervaded every frame of our of our show and a show that was

1:49.1

ostensibly very staid and very stoic and very dramatic also had a lot of a lot of humor in it.

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