Laurence Fishburne, Garrett Bradley, and Alex Borstein on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, we listen to Elvis’ recent conversation with actor Laurence Fishburne from the Freep Film Festival in Detroit last month. Next, a conversation with filmmaker Garrett Bradley, who spoke with Elvis at KCRW in February as part of Frieze Los Angeles. And for The Treat, Emmy-winning actress Alex Borstein talks about a singer who was on repeat while she worked on a screenplay.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.
0:14.3	I'm Elvis Mitchell, live. It's the treatment, that is, two interviews recorded before a live audience.
0:21.5	On April 29th, I was joined at the Freep Film Festival at the Detroit Institute of Arts by my guest,
0:27.0	Emmy and Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee Lawrence Fishburn.
0:30.5	His career exploded by working with Francis Kobler on Apocalypse Now when Fishburn was just a teenager.
0:36.2	And his other collaborators include Kenya Barris, Spike Lee,
0:39.8	John Singleton on his first film, and of course, Pee Wee Herman.
0:43.8	And here we go.
0:45.3	You were one of the few people I know of who survived and came out sane starting off as a child actor.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:52.9	How does that happen?
0:54.9	I think because I had really great people around me.
1:01.7	Like Apocalypse Now, second movie, 14 years old.
1:06.0	But people like, you know, my mom was with me.
1:09.4	People like Martin Sheen and his wife, Janet, were parenting me, you know, my mom was with me. People like Martin Sheen and his wife, Janet, were parenting me.
1:13.6	You know, Francis Coppola and his wife Eleanor were parenting me.
1:18.6	Marlon Brando was parenting me.
1:22.6	Scott Glenn, who was also in the film,
1:24.6	these people treated me like the adolescent that I was, you know.
1:30.5	And my dad also was, he was called over at one point when I was kind of getting, you know,
1:36.1	smelling myself a little bit.
1:37.7	My mom called my dad, and my dad came to the Philippines from New York to rain me in a little
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