Jordan Peele, Chloë Sevigny and for The Treat: the ‘80s R&B song that makes writer Danyel Smith want to dance

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with Academy Award winning screenwriter and acclaimed horror auteur Jordan Peele, who’s here to discuss his latest genre-bending film “Nope.” Then we revisit our recent conversation with actress Chloë Sevigny about her take on “quiet acting.” And for The Treat, we listen back to Danyel Smith’s take on the ‘80s R&B hit “No Parking on the Dance Floor.”

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:05.0	It's the Treatment.
0:11.0	It's the Treatment.
0:15.0	I'm Elvis Mitchell, sitting across from somebody who, in the interregorant since he's last been here,
0:20.0	when he showed he's a world-class filmmaker from the very start,
0:23.0	he's going to win the Academy Award for screenplay for a little movie called Get Out.
0:28.2	He has made three films with deceptively simple declarative titles.
0:33.0	My guest is writer-director, sometimes actor, Jordan Peel.
0:37.2	Good to see you. His most recent film is
0:39.9	Nope, which I actually called Hope when I saw it. Because first of all, all those people in those
0:46.4	posters looking up in the sky made me feel hopeful. And I think kind of in the end, the movie's
0:53.2	kind of about looking for a way to be hopeful or to be optimistic, which in some way, your movies are all about.
0:59.8	That's wild.
1:00.6	I mean, yes, it had to be about hope.
1:03.2	It had to be about joy.
1:05.3	And, you know, when you saw that poster, you might notice that the font was essentially identical to the Obama Hope.
1:14.9	Yeah, the Sheper Ferry Hope. Yes, absolutely.
1:16.9	Chepper Ferry poster. And that was, I think we, and I wrote it in the middle of a very dark time.
1:27.0	You know, I wrote the movie in the beginning, in the middle of 2020,
1:29.9	when we were all trying to figure out what to do and what's next.
1:33.5	And it was a time when it was the opposite of that hope.
1:37.9	It was nope.
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