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The Treatment

Noah Hawley, Emma Seligman and Sofia Coppola on The Treat

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with storyteller Noah Hawley, whose series Fargo is now in its fifth installment on FX and Hulu. Then, we re-visit Elvis’ conversation with Bottoms director Emma Seligman. And on The Treat, Priscilla director Sofia Coppola talks about the book that inspired her latest film.

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.

0:15.2

It's the treatment in person with Noah Hawley, finally after two visits over many and very different Zoom lines.

0:21.7

He's here for, let me share, I got this right, the new edition of Fargo.

0:27.1

They aren't seasons.

0:28.6

They're year.

0:29.5

I think they also use the words installment or, yes, it's this preferential language control system is new to me as well.

0:40.6

This season, as well as many others, include so many elements have come to think with you.

0:46.8

The combat between faith and fate, as in so many corner brothers' things that you've probably been influenced by,

0:55.8

there is a Gallum figure.

0:58.5

Yes, very much.

1:02.2

I mean, you can take us back to almost the origins of the gallant figures. But it's also kind of a reset.

1:05.1

The text is almost back to sort of the same territory as the original Fargo film with an auto dealership and people fighting

1:13.8

for business supremacy. Talk about what the origins of this season for you.

1:18.5

It's a bit of a game of telephone this season. It's as if someone said to me, write a story

1:24.4

about a man who kidnaps his wife. He sends two guys to kidnap his wife.

1:29.3

And Joel and Ethan wrote a similar movie in which Bill Macy had his own wife kidnapped.

1:34.4

I wrote a story in which Juno Temple, who plays Dot, is kidnapped by her ex-husband,

1:41.1

or the husband that she ran away from played by John Hamm.

1:45.0

But we built a set that was much like the set from the movie,

1:50.0

and two guys in masks came together.

1:54.0

And it does that thing that I always like to play with in Fargo,

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