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The Treatment

Nicole Beharie: ‘Miss Juneteenth’

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actress Nicole Beharie on the compromises for access and agency.

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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. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest, actor Nicole Bihari,

0:19.1

first caught my attention in American Violet, but she's going to do work with our friend Steve McQueen and shame and made a big splash as far as I'm concerned in Sleepy Hollow.

0:29.2

Her newest project for which she's a recent Spirit Award nominee is Miss Juneteenth.

0:34.1

Nicole, thanks so much for being here.

0:35.7

Thank you for having me.

0:37.5

Yeah. I love the show as well. It's cool. Nicole, thanks so much for being here. Thank you for having me. Yeah.

0:38.2

I love the show as well.

0:40.1

It's cool.

0:40.9

Oh, you're the one.

0:41.7

See, I've always wanted to meet you.

0:42.7

Thank you.

0:43.1

My goodness.

0:46.0

Let me ask you this, because one of the things I think is really interesting about

0:48.8

Mrs. Juneteenth, I wonder if it was one of the things you liked about it is that it's basically a bunch of little mysteries where we think we know people and as more time goes past in the script, we realize we

0:58.6

don't know them at all. Like, for example, we think we know her mom. It turns out we don't. We see

1:03.8

these people and as the story goes on, we get to know more and more about them. So it's like these

1:07.8

little mysteries being worked out. You know what? I love that perspective. I have never thought of it that way, like at all.

1:14.8

The sort of what the presentational version of the person is and then going a little bit deeper,

1:19.7

a few steps, you know, closer or seeing what's sort of behind the curtain. You're right.

1:24.8

There is an aspect of that. I think maybe that's something I'm

1:28.3

attracted to in like everything that I do. I always want to know, like, what's really going on in there,

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