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🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes the incredibly busy actor Rob Lowe — currently starring in season two of the Netflix comedy Unstable, soon to be returning to 9-1-1: Lone Star and The Floor (both on Fox). Then, Saturday Night Live alum Dan Aykroyd joins to discuss his new Audible project Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude. And on The Treat, Emmy nominee Lionel Boyce talks about a filmmaker whose characters are driven by self-determination.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:13.0 | It's The Treatment. |
0:15.3 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
0:16.4 | We just talked about what Rob Lo has going on right now. |
0:19.1 | We'd be out of time. |
0:20.2 | He's hosting a game show. |
0:22.3 | He's starring in two TV shows. One of which we're here to talk about, unstable on Netflix. |
0:27.5 | He's also a best-selling author. Stories I only tell my friends. I think of him as an actor primarily |
0:33.7 | as somebody who has a gift for ridiculing narcissism. And it goes back to me in his |
0:40.7 | performance in Youngblood, where he was ridiculing the guy as he was playing. And first of all, |
0:45.8 | it's a thrill to have you here. Thank you. Thank you. It's great. I love anytime I get to spend |
0:50.4 | any time with you, Elvis. First of all, I think you do the basic kind of the first American version of a Ripley character in bad influence. |
0:56.2 | Thank you. |
0:57.0 | Up until that point, that kind of character would have been played as somebody who, like, enjoyed being evil. |
1:01.6 | Instead, you play with somebody who sort of was interested in other people, but only because he wanted to be seen by other people. |
1:07.4 | Right. |
1:07.9 | And that even kind of depends to unstable. |
1:11.7 | Somebody who's interested in other people, we should say you play an Elon Musk, Steve Jobs |
1:17.0 | sort of mash up whose son comes to work with them, adult son comes to work with |
1:22.3 | in his tech company. |
1:23.4 | But he wants to be seeing, he wants to help other people as long as they're looking at him. |
1:28.3 | That's right. |
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