From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest is actor-turn

director, Rebecca Hall. And I think as an actor,

she's had an interesting career just because she's had a few parts that sort of dealt with

secrets and a kind of furtiveness. You think about Professor Morrison, the Wonder Women,

and even the gift. So her directorial debut is an adaptation of the novel passing, which she adapted and directed.

Rebecca, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

I guess the last time we spoke was about a pretty interesting part.

You play Christine Chabachan film film Christine, which is also a film

about somebody really being buffeted by social forces. And I wonder if that's something that

attracts you as a dramatist. I think it is. I think I have a fascination with masks, I suppose, is the

best way to put it.

I mean, someone like Christine Chalberg,

certainly as depicted in the movie,

was someone whose social performance was almost too much for her psyche to accommodate.

Like, she couldn't, she had no capacity to sort of be free.

And I suppose that I've always been interested in the crunch point between the persona that we project to the world and the one that we actually

are, or I suppose a better way of putting that is the people that we think we ought to be

versus the things that we want

and how much freedom we have and how much that performance is in itself the truth and all of

those aspects of or fungible aspects of identity. And I suppose all of it is the is the most sort of acute expression of it is in

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