From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

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There's probably no director working who's made films with characters with kind of a

compact with loneliness the way that Mark Forrester has. You look at the films Finding Neverland,

Monsters Ball. He's brought James Bond into that world where Bond has to figure out his own

kind of agreement with loneliness. The new Bond film is Quantum of Salas. First of all, thanks so much

for coming back, Mark.

No, thank you.

I'm glad to be here again.

Loneliness is so much a part of the way and figuring out the kind of agreement you make with loneliness is a big part of the way you shape characters.

And I was wondering if that's something you want to do with Bond.

There was a beginning of that with the last one, Casino

Royale, but it's much more so about that here. Yeah, that's definitely, it was one of the

ideas I wanted to do because I feel like Bond is a very lonely character and a character

who's an incredible amount of pain. And one of the reasons, you know, I chose, for instance, desert as a location in the movie

is because I feel that desert is sort of a symbol of isolation and loneliness as well.

At least in me, it creates this sort of feeling of loneliness.

But also that kind of sense of isolation of not having cue or money penny around,

just bonding this figure who really kind of, and is also recovering, as in the way he was

from a betrayal of the end of Casino Royale, which figures into this too. That sense of isolation

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