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The Treatment

Olivia Wilde: Meadowland

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Actress Olivia Wilde stops by to discuss her role as a grief stricken mother in the drama Meadowland.  

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

0:05.6

Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today.

0:09.9

It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics.

0:14.9

When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say,

0:19.1

I really should vote for someone smarter than me.

0:21.7

I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point

0:26.4

podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment. It's The Treatment.

0:46.2

Welcome to The Treatment.

0:50.3

You know, it's always interesting when you see somebody, an actor, with a really expressive face.

0:53.9

Generally, that's the kind of thing we see in comedy, turn to drama.

0:54.9

My guest, Olivia Weil, an actor, a really expressive face, has turned to drama again. She was last here

0:59.4

with the drama. She's here with her new drama, Medellan. First of all, thanks for coming back.

1:03.0

Thank you for having me back.

1:04.7

And first of all, tell the audience with the films about it's directed by its cinematographer Ribe Marano and that's I can sort of see that in the

1:12.4

film making sure yes Reed Morano is a very experienced DP she shot skeleton twins kill your

1:20.0

darlings frozen river little birds she's phenomenal and this is her first gig as a director

1:26.0

and she shot the movie, operated the camera,

1:29.5

and was the DP and directed, which was an incredible experience for us, the actors, because it

1:34.3

created this intimacy. The movie is about this couple, Luke Wilson and myself, whose child

1:39.4

goes mysteriously missing. And rather than focusing on the investigation of that mystery, the movie

1:46.5

cuts to a year later where we see these two parents spinning out of control in very different

1:51.0

ways. So it's more a psychological drama. It's more about that kind of unraveling than any sort

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