4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
0:13.3 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can hear the show at KCRW.com. My guest, Sally Hawkins, has had quite a career with Mike Lee alone and just three movies, |
0:22.4 | All or Nothing, Vera Drake, and now the newest, happy and lucky. |
0:25.4 | She's gone from being an integral part of the ensemble to the one the film was built around. |
0:30.6 | Sally, thanks so much for being here. |
0:31.9 | I'm not all. |
0:32.3 | Thank you for inviting me. |
0:33.7 | It's lovely. |
0:34.4 | Oh, it's my pleasure. |
0:35.1 | Is it true that you didn't know what the end of the film was going to be until... |
0:38.3 | No, no. No one did, including Mike, or he was keeping it very secret. But, yeah, I actually, Mike invited me into, I mean, before, after rehearsal, before filming there's sort of a mini hiatus period |
0:57.6 | of Mike's getting all these thoughts together about scenes and where they fit and sort of |
1:02.6 | trying to get a through line of the film together and he invited me in to have a chat and |
1:09.6 | talk things through. |
1:17.3 | And during this period, and he sort of was in this rehearsal room. |
1:21.2 | And I don't know if he'd slept for several days. And he was looking very bleary-eyed and a bit manic. |
1:27.0 | And he had the whole film sort of skeleton structure planned out on the walls |
1:32.8 | in these drawings and notes. |
1:36.7 | It was amazing. |
1:38.1 | It was like seeing the inside of his brain. |
1:39.6 | And then it just stopped. |
1:42.2 | And he said, we still don't know what happens. And that's incredibly exciting. |
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