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The Treatment

Mariska Hargitay gets personal with ‘My Mom Jayne’

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis Mitchell speaks with Emmy winning actress Mariska Hargitay about her record-breaking run as Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and her new (and very personal) HBO documentary My Mom Jayne. Then, screenwriter Scott Z Burns stops by to talk about his new Audible Podcast series What Could Go Wrong? And on The Treat, Freaky Tales co-director Ryan Fleck hails a film that’s a warm slice of Big Apple life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.0

It's the Treatment.

0:15.4

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:16.6

You watch the show Law & Order SVU.

0:19.2

The Lee character, Olivia Benson, I think she's a character who finally is about forgiveness.

0:23.9

Learn to forgive herself for the awkwardness of her parentage.

0:27.9

There's an incredible documentary that interestingly ties thematically to that show.

0:32.7

It's director, very accomplished director, and also an accomplished actor is the star of that show,

0:40.0

the longest running show in Primetime. We have to say this, that prime time is disappearing by

0:44.9

guests, of course, is actor and director. Mariska Hargate. First of all, thanks so much for being here.

0:49.5

Oh, it's a pleasure. But the show, I mean, this film is about forgiveness. It is. It's about

0:54.1

forgiving your mother. It's about forgiving your mother.

0:55.5

It's about forgiving yourself.

0:57.5

It's biblical in its way.

0:59.5

I mean, it's really a religious experience to me.

1:02.1

Thank you.

1:02.6

What a beautiful thing to say.

1:04.5

I felt like that, too.

1:05.9

I think that, you know, forgiveness is the only way that we can evolve and, quite frankly, move forward in this life.

1:15.8

Because if we get tripped up, triggered, it is like causes arrested development and we cannot thrive and live in a, community and we certainly can't live in love

1:31.7

which is the only way out right so it's been um an incredibly freeing cathartic experience for me

1:41.9

to make this film i guess what's interesting about this film to me, too, Mariska,

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