Maureen: Bharoocha: ‘The Prank’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes director Maureen Bharoocha whose newest film is “The Prank,” starring Rita Moreno. Bharoocha is also the director of “Golden Arm,” an arm wrestling comedy. Bharoocha tells The Treatment she wanted to transcend movie genres with “The Prank” and not just stay in the comedy or thriller category. She says part of the fun of featuring the legendary Moreno in the film was having the actress play a strict teacher, a character she never played before. And Bharoocha says her characters may have been inspired by her stubborn and strong grandmothers.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	Welcome to the Treatment, the Home Edition.
0:16.7	I'm Elvis Mitchell, and my guest could be called the director with a golden arm,
0:20.7	but this is that only because she did a feature called The Golden Arm. Her newest film as director is... I'm Elvis Mitchell, and my guest could be called the director with a golden arm, but it's
0:21.0	only because she did a feature call The Golden Arm.
0:23.4	Her newest film as director is The Prank.
0:26.0	Marina Baruch is my guest.
0:27.2	I can't thank you for doing the show.
0:29.0	And how are you?
0:30.8	Oh, my gosh.
0:31.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:32.5	I am such a fan, so this means a lot.
0:35.4	It's so interesting, the difference between the two films,
0:38.4	there's something really interestingly kind of formal about the prank once it moves into the school,
0:43.4	isn't it? I love genre. So I kind of loved the idea of playing in a different genre,
0:48.3	kind of still keeping in that comedy world, but playing with different tropes within
0:52.5	thrills and comedy.
0:57.7	Well, let me ask you for people who haven't seen The Prank yet.
0:58.9	It's a terrific film, by the way.
1:01.3	You can describe for our audience what the movie's about.
1:04.4	So the prank is about Ben and his best friend Tanner,
1:07.1	who decided to play a prank on their teacher, Mrs. Wheeler,
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