Laurence Fishburne: 20th Anniversary of 'Boyz 'n the Hood'

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In 1991, Laurence Fishburne starred as the hard-nosed Furious Styles in Boyz 'n the Hood. The film was acclaimed for it's compelling portrayal of life in South Central LA..

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.
0:14.6	Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.
0:18.2	Emmy and Tony winner Lawrence Fishburn just received his fifth Emmy nomination for his work in
0:22.9	Thurgood, the TV version of the one-man show on Thurgood Marshall. This is also the 20th anniversary
0:28.7	of the film Boys in the Hood. Mr. Fishburne has generously consented to join me again. It's always
0:33.4	good that for a friend on the show in this 15th year of the show. Thanks for going back. You're welcome. How you doing, Elvis?
0:37.6	Well, how are you?
0:38.4	I'm good, man.
0:39.0	Always good to see you.
0:39.7	You too.
0:40.3	Tell me about your reaction when you heard that you got the nomination for the show, for
0:46.3	Thurgood.
0:46.8	The Emmy nomination is a surprise.
0:49.8	I was nominated for the Tony in 2008 when I performed it here on Broadway for Best Actor in a show.
0:57.6	An actor named Mark Rylance won that year.
1:01.0	Patrick Stewart was also nominated that year for his portrayal of Macbeth.
1:07.8	And people have said that Patrick Stewart and I canceled each other out.
1:13.8	Clash of the Titans, Thor and Oden going toe to toe.
1:17.3	And hence Mark Rylance won the Tony that year.
1:20.7	And it's subsequently gone on to win some other ones.
1:24.1	But yeah, I was very pleasantly surprised by the Emmy nomination that just came through.
1:29.3	Let me ask you that because so much of the stuff you've done on television has been of a historical bend.
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