Sir Ben Kingsley, Zoe Lister-Jones and Rodney Barnes on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley, whose latest role is as the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí in the film Dalíland. Next, actress and writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones joins to discuss her genre-bending series Slip, now streaming on Roku. And on The Treat, Winning Time writer Rodney Barnes talks about a pair of TV movies (and an adjacent short-lived TV series) which revealed his personal path to Hollywood.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.5	It's The Treatment.
0:15.4	It's the treatment.
0:16.0	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:17.1	Since 1996 when he came here with 12th night, Sir Ben Kingsley has been a guest of this program.
0:22.2	He's been nothing but terrific and generous with his time.
0:25.7	He's always a pleasure to have him here.
0:27.3	His new film with our old friend, director Mary Heron, is Dali Land.
0:31.6	First of all, Sir Ben, thank you so much, you coming back.
0:33.7	I was racking my brains this morning.
0:35.9	It was 12th night.
0:37.3	It was 12th night. Gosh. Delightful to see you.
0:41.0	I have to ask you, though, when you talked a little bit about this with this film,
0:44.3	you played so many characters who, in effect, have been presentational and who are aware of the effects that their affect have on others.
0:52.3	And watching this, I found myself, a thing I mentioned to you,
0:54.8	the house of Staten and Falk.
0:55.8	I just found, I was thinking of so many ways of these characters
0:58.2	who know how they're seen and want to be seen.
1:01.7	Yes.
1:01.9	Now, look, you talk about that a little bit.
1:03.6	Trying to create a portrait of a portrait artist
1:07.0	was a series of boxes I had to get through
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