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

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. If you have an unusual favorite film by a favorite director, be something like the ninth configuration or Castle Keep, it's the odds are pretty good that my guest, Scott Wilson, was in that film.

He's also in the number of interesting first-time films by first-time filmmakers, such as Monster or The Way of the Gun, or Shiloh.

Of course, many of us know it says,

the most cunning man on one leg ever to walk through the post-apocalyptic South on the Walking Dead.

And 50 years ago, he made quite a splash starring in two films that really changed movies in that year in 1967.

Those films were in the heat of the night.

And, of course, in Cold Blood, I'm sitting across from my friend Scott Wilson.

I'm thrilled to have here.

Thank you so much.

It's great to be here.

You know, it's interesting because so often I think of you as kind of like the calming

breath in these movies in these films such as, well, we can go back to in cold blood where the chemistry between you and Robert Blake was very much about you're being, I don't know how to say the calmer of the two serial killers, but, you know, so often you bring balance to. And I wonder when you kind of found that you had that capacity for bringing balance to

something.

Yeah, I put everything on the writer.

I believe the writers come up with your character and you play between the lines.

You do the dialogue, but you're playing between the lines.

And the lines tell you what is between the lines in a way.

Really?

You think that?

Because I'm just thinking about, you know, so many great things you've done.

I think about justified.

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