Owen Wilson, Scott Z. Burns, and Abraham Josephine Riesman on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes actor and screenwriter Owen Wilson, who’s starring in the comedy “Paint,” about a laconic public television host with a painting program. Next, writer Scott Z. Burns joins to talk about his ambitious and star-studded AppleTV+ series “Extrapolations,” about the wide-ranging effects of climate change. And for The Treat, writer Abraham Josephine Riesman talks about the dystopian alternative future in her favorite Philip K. Dick novel.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	It's The Treatment.
0:15.5	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.5	My guest, but clearly knows more about broadcasting and recording that I do is Owen Wilson, who I've
0:21.3	known for a while, yet this is the first time he's ever sat down here, so I'm thrilled to have
0:25.5	him here. He plays somebody in his newest film who's adjacent to public radio, a public
0:30.8	broadcasting television star. The film is paint. First of, Owen, thanks so much for doing this.
0:36.5	Thank you. It's about time.
0:40.0	How long do we have to know each other before I get this invitation to sit down?
0:44.4	At least almost 30 years is what it seems to take.
0:47.1	But let me ask you this, because this character who's based on Bob Ross,
0:51.8	one of the things that's interesting about Bob Ross as a person,
0:54.4	he never raised his voice because of his World War II experience.
0:57.7	And there is this interesting sort of group of PBS stars,
1:01.5	Fred Rogers and Bob Ross and Julia Child,
1:05.8	who all came from World War II,
1:07.3	who all had this really awful experience
1:09.2	and decided to basically dial back their lives
1:12.6	and try to be more conversational and inviting to the viewer.
1:17.6	And I wonder for your character, where does the voice come from
1:21.6	and him not raising his voice?
1:23.6	I didn't know that about Bob Ross.
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