From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, my guest, actor and comedian, and now author Kevin Poll Pollack is here with us. You may know him

from movies from Miami Rhapsody to what was the thing called again? Oh yes, the usual suspects,

his own show, Kevin Pollock's chat show. He's worked with directors from first-timers like,

or early in the career directors like David Frankel and Brian Singer to later in their career

directors like Rob Reiner and David Singer to later in their career directors like

Rob Reiner and David Frankl. His book is how I slept my way to the middle. Thank you so much

for being here, Kevin. Thank you. What an honor I've been listening for so many years. I've been

listening to your show. Your chat show is since the start. I'm a big fan of yours. One of the things I have to

ask you about is one of my favorite things you ever did was a stop with a kicking.

You took on Jeff Speakman, which when nobody was doing that.

Because he really was the most absurdly kind of positioned action star in history.

You can explain that that bit for the audience.

Yeah.

You know, they try to invent action stars, the studios being they in this context, which they succeed at every now and then,

certainly in the case of Jason Statham, who was a wonderful actor in the Guy Ritchie movies,

but not an action star by any stretch of the imagination. And the studio said, no, he's the next Bruce Willis.

And somebody said, why? Because he's losing his hair. I don't know.

And so you also do Jason Statham. And now he's the next Bruce Willis. And somebody said, why? Because he's losing his hair. I don't know. And also you do, Jason Stath.

And now he's an action hero, who I, he's my current favorite verbal meme.

Well, I like to mess with.

Well, he says six words faster than any human on the planet.

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