Nahnatchka Khan, Grant Singer, and Ben Kingsley on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes director Nahnatchka Khan, whose film Totally Killer is a genre-mashing time machine thriller. Then, director Grant Singer joins to talk about having Benicio del Toro as the star and a co-writer on his feature film debut Reptile. And on The Treat, Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley talks about the patterns he pays attention to in life.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:05.0	It's the Treatment.
0:06.0	It's the Treatment.
0:15.0	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:17.0	I was just saying before we got started when our guest,
0:19.0	Nanjka Khan, was last year. She was just a TV we got started when our guest, the Nachka Khan was last year.
0:28.0	She was just a TV creator, executive producer, and now she's got a feature career ahead of her,
0:30.1	and behind her and ahead of, I should say.
0:31.1	She's in the midst of it.
0:41.1	She's done Always Be My Maybe, and her newest film is totally killer, a title that tells you more than you think in so many ways.
0:42.6	Not just so good to have you back.
0:43.7	Thank you for doing this.
0:45.1	Elvis, it's such a pleasure.
0:46.2	Thank you for having me.
0:50.4	It's just watching this movie, I can see why you gravitate to the script.
0:53.3	It's got a bunch of characters who are all appetite.
0:55.4	It's about people who is trapped in that world between being teenagers and adults, literally in this case, and that one character
1:00.2	for whom common sense is a curse rather than a superpower, it's so much you. But you tell me what
1:08.4	it was about this material that made you want to do it.
1:11.4	I mean, that's it.
1:12.3	You know, it's always for me, you know, the characters, especially like the central sort of storyline.
1:19.7	The character of Jamie, you know, in Totally Killer, who's played by Kiernan and Shipka, to me,
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