Regina Hall: ‘Master’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes back actress Regina Hall who’s currently starring in Mariama Diallo’s “Master,” a horror film about the first Black master of an elite fictional New England university. Hall’s other films include “Support the Girls” and “Girls Trip.” Hall is also co-hosting the 2022 Academy Awards on March 27 along with Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer. Hall tells The Treatment she was struck by how many people have said they see themselves in one of the characters in “Master.” She says her mother passed away during filming, which gave her portrayal a sadness and gravity that came from her grief. And she says her upcoming co-hosting gig is both exciting and terrifying.

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0:00.0	I'm Elvis Mitchell, and it's that time of year again.
0:04.0	High stakes competition, underdogs coming from nowhere to surprise everyone.
0:08.7	Yes, it's March Madness, but not just for college basketball.
0:13.6	It's Oscars time, and KCRW has lots to check out, from interviews with this year's contenders
0:20.0	to stories on how the film industry is changing.
0:23.6	Again and again and again, just like college basketball.
0:27.6	Check out KCRW.com slash Oscars before the big game.
0:32.7	I mean night.
0:34.2	And now, here's the treatment.
0:37.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.
0:50.9	Welcome to the treatment, the home edition. I'm speaking to the busiest person in show business right now.
0:55.8	Regina Hall, who's taking time with her busy schedule, talk to us about her new film, Master.
1:01.2	Welcome back, Regina. Good to talk to you.
1:03.3	Thank you. Thank you for having me.
1:05.6	It's always good to have you around. And I have to say about this movie, I mean, you know, it's basically a horror
1:11.7	movie about microaggressions. If you took the supernatural part of the movie out, it's still
1:16.8	pretty scary stuff, isn't it? I mean, yeah. I mean, I think definitely, you know, Mary, I'm
1:21.8	picking the genre, the horror genre, and using the academic world as a backdrop to kind of, you know, have this social commentary on, you know, things that many of us have experienced.
1:37.3	And I just thought the way she did it was so clever, showing different realities of it through the different storylines between Jasmine and
1:45.2	her storyline is this young bright-eyed freshman and Gail.
1:49.5	Everything feels hopeful.
1:50.8	I mean, she's the first black master, whatever that means.
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