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

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm thrilled to have on the show,

an actor-turned-director who I mentioned when I met her at a screening of Battle of the Sexes.

I was a big fan of hers.

She's making her feature directorial debut with the film Plan B.

We're talking to Natalie Morales.

Natalie, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me, Elvis.

I'm a big fan of yours as well.

I've been listening to the show a long time.

What's so much fun about the movie is that it's really in a lot of ways about everybody coming out,

people coming to recognize who and what they are. And I just wonder if that was one of the things you found interesting about it. For sure. You know, it's an R-rated teen comedy like the ones we grew up with. And that's, that was very

exciting for me to make. And I think that's sort of inherent to the teen comedy. It's, it's a point in

your life where you're trying to figure out who you are. And also, maybe if who you've said you

are is still who you are and if who your parents want you to be is who you are

and i find that you know i mean i guess we all find that sort of increasingly interesting

because there's so many movies and so many stories about that time in our lives when we're

trying to figure that out well i think what's interesting about it too is the fact that

these young women who are the stars of the movie think they know themselves as well, and they have to realize that they even don't even know themselves as well if they think they do.

Right. I mean, and they also, you know, they're two best friends, and one of the sources of pride for me in this movie is that the two actresses, Coohoo Verma and Victoria Morales, have such incredible chemistry, which is something I knew we needed and I knew the movie would fall flat if we didn't have that.

Also, it's something that is so crucial is to have that friend, you know, but within friendships, there's often, you know, things you don't

know about each other, even if you're super close. And that's also a really interesting thing to

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