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Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I forced myself on my guest, Justin Bartha.

In 2010, saw him in a restaurant and had to tell him how great I thought he was and lent me a tenor, which he was doing at that point.

That same year, he had a movie played at the Sundance Film Festival, Holy Rollers, in which he gives a really turrically funny and scarily intense performance.

You, of course, to see him in the interim, in the Hangover Films.

His newest film as actor is White Girl.

First of all, thanks so much you're doing this Elvis thank you so I mean it's I haven't seen you in a long time and I have wanted to see you

and this is an honor so thank you for having you think I'm joking I'm not joking I really

he's a low threshold for for honor ladies and gentlemen but I'm gonna ask you how you got

involved in this guy I guess this is certainly one of the most provocative titles of a movie in the last 20 years.

I, you know, I got sent the script.

In the usual way that projects come to me, another actor fell out.

And so they're like, who can we get in a short period of time?

So the agent sent me the script, and I read it and it was, you know, the title is provocative,

but the whole entire script is it's pretty provocative in a personal way, and it was so original.

I hadn't really read anything that personal and that provocative in a long time.

So once I met with the director,

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