Julie Taymor: ‘The Glorias’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis Mitchell welcomes Tony-winning director of theater and film Julie Taymor to discuss her newest feature ‘The Glorias.’ The film tells the story of the iconic activist Gloria Steinem in her early years, as four actresses portray her at different stages of her life. Taymor previously directed films including ‘Titus,’ ‘Frida,’ and ‘Across The Universe’ and won a Tony Award for ‘The Lion King.’ Mitchell and Taymor discuss the enduring relevance of her films that chart the stories of political movements and how she uses the fantastical elements of her film to express the emotion of the story and relationships.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition, everybody.
0:16.7	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:17.4	It's always good to have old friends come back and do the show.
0:20.4	And in 1999,
0:21.5	I had the good fortune of talking to Julie Tameur, who's film adaptation of Titus. It says,
0:27.6	relevant today as it was 21 years ago, her new film, which will be, I'm sure, is relevant in 21 years,
0:33.0	unfortunately, it is now is the Gloria's. My guest is Julie Tame Moore. Julie, thanks so much for being here and doing the show again.
0:40.0	I know. I know. Well, you know, there was a great hope back in 1999 when we did it that as we ushered in a new millennium, we would have less violence and guess what?
0:51.7	Guess what? Human beings don't change, do they?
0:54.7	With all the information, all the knowledge, all the openness,
0:58.3	they seem to not listen to their greater angels or whatever they're called, nicer or better.
1:04.2	It's worth that people don't tend to associate race with it because I think people don't
1:07.9	think that deeply or that much about Shakespeare that people
1:12.0	were shocked by it, remember, and people were kind of off put by it back then. And it's kind of
1:17.6	amazing now how it really stood the test of time. I watched it again preparing for this. And first
1:22.0	all, Harry is so terrific in it. But it's just, you should be, you should put that out there
1:26.8	because it's one of the greatest performances.
1:29.1	And Anthony Hopkins noted it.
1:30.5	He thought Harry was astounding, as I did.
1:33.3	Yes.
1:34.1	Well, we're talking about it now.
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