Pamela Adlon, Ned Benson, and Brian Helgeland on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis sits down with actress and director Pamela Adlon to discuss her feature directorial debut, Babes. The buzzy comedy (out now) stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau as longtime friends navigating life and parenthood. Next, director Ned Benson talks about his new sci-fi romance film, The Greatest Hits. And for The Treat, director Brian Helgeland discusses a favorite film that’s all about sticking it to the man.

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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.
0:14.9	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.4	I guess we can say my guest, Pamela Edelins, Warren Arring Fertigues, as an animated character, and as a live action movie in Sergeant Bilko, we're also in Pepperant.
0:24.0	We know her voice. We know her as an actor. We're certainly from that incredible season run of Better Things, know her as a writer, director and actor.
0:32.6	And we now know her as a feature film director for the film Babes. First of all, thank you so much for being here.
0:39.3	I'm honored.
0:40.3	I'm starstruck.
0:41.7	Again, you're low threshold for stardom, given who.
0:44.7	No, it was about Phil.
0:45.9	Of course it was.
0:46.6	See, there you go.
0:47.2	Now I feel better.
0:48.4	What I like so much about this movie is that, first of all, your star is Alana Glazer and
0:53.6	Michelle Bouture, so great to Ned.
0:55.4	But it's also about extremes and about ego and about the way women treat each other.
1:03.2	The ending reminded me so much of the ending of better things when everybody's seeing,
1:08.2	always looking on the right side of life to the camera.
1:10.4	Yeah.
1:10.9	And you're most...
1:12.3	You really watched better things.
1:14.3	You think I would make this up?
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