Sean Penn, Carrie Courogen, and Philip Gefter on The Treat

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes back Oscar winning actor Sean Penn to discuss his latest role in the film Daddio, starring opposite Dakota Johnson. Next, writer Carrie Courogen stops by to talk about her revealing biography of multi-hyphenate Elaine May: Elaine May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius. And for The Treat, writer Philip Gefter reveals a childhood inspiration that helped Gefter create a “magical” home.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.3	It's the treatment.
0:15.2	It's the treatment on location with Sean Penn at his home.
0:18.6	First of all, thanks so much you inviting us here.
0:20.0	Thank you.
0:20.5	Thanks for coming. I think every other conversation I have of all, thanks so much you're inviting us here. Thank you. Thanks for coming.
0:21.7	I think every other conversation
0:23.3	I have with you,
0:24.1	I say to you,
0:25.0	you should be doing more comedy.
0:28.2	Since I've known you,
0:29.2	we've had this conversation,
0:29.8	you go, I wish somebody would give me something.
0:31.8	And Daddy-O, your new project,
0:34.6	is more than that,
0:35.6	but you're playing it like comedy.
0:37.6	You're playing each of the line for its effect, aren't you?
0:40.8	I think those lines just have an effect.
0:43.1	When I first read that screenplay, it had been born as a stage play that Christy Hall had
0:50.5	written.
0:51.8	It just sort of sang, you know, and the kind of approach to the subject at hand,
1:00.0	that human connection that over dinner tables, you know, in our social lives we hear,
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