Taraji P. Henson, Ava DuVernay, and Greg Daniels on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes actress Taraji P. Henson, a recent SAG Award nominee in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple. Next, Origin director Ava DuVernay talks about adapting the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. And on the Treat, Upload creator Greg Daniels talks about that rare source of comedy inspiration: books.

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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.
0:15.2	I could sit here and list all the awards and nominations my guest, Troghy Behanza
0:19.0	its hat, but then we'd be out of time,
0:21.2	and she has much better places to be. So let's just get going and start by talking about her
0:24.8	newest project, which is the musical version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which is a
0:30.5	film in 1985. But in this film, you get to say my favorite line from the book, I think it
0:35.1	pisses God off. You walk past a fee with a color purple and you don't notice it.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:39.9	That to me is the book that you get to say it as Shug Avery.
0:44.3	So it made my heart stop.
0:45.5	I have to tell you that because this is my favorite line from the book, too.
0:48.4	Wow.
0:49.4	That's amazing.
0:50.7	This has been around for so long.
0:52.7	I call it like our Shakespeare.
0:54.6	It's our, it's a cornerstone in culture in America.
0:58.5	It really is.
0:59.7	We now have the color of purple multiverse because there's the play, the book, the movie, the original.
1:05.7	And now we have the musical version of the screenplay.
1:09.6	I remember seeing the movie. I remember saying the movie.
1:12.3	I remember reading the book.
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