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The Treatment

Taran Killam: Killing Gunther

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Taran Killam discusses his directorial debut Killing Gunther alongside none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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0:00.0

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

0:14.6

Welcome to the treatment.

0:15.5

I'm sitting across from a man who you may know, of course, as Brad Pitt or one of the stars of Moody's points.

0:23.0

Yeah? And also... who you may know, of course, as Brad Pitt or one of the stars of Moody's points. Yeah.

0:23.8

And also, again, I'd like to say,

0:26.1

the closest I will ever get to Hamilton is my guest,

0:28.1

Taryn Killen, was sitting across from me.

0:29.4

He's made his debut as a writer-director with the film Killing Gunther,

0:32.5

which I actually feel, in some ways,

0:34.3

is very close to illegitimuses.

0:36.0

They're both kind of these comedies about abandonment issues.

0:38.5

Yes, yes, absolutely.

0:39.8

No, you've latched on to my...

0:43.0

I boiled it down.

0:44.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:45.0

Where does this come from?

0:46.0

Why are you making fun of people being left behind?

0:47.5

I know.

0:48.5

I don't know, because my family is very tight, very close, mom and dad.

0:52.8

We're together. They're now separated, but we're

0:55.7

together all through my childhood. Yeah, I don't know. It's a great point. I think it's the world

1:01.4

of spies and assassins is a lonely world. So I think maybe I, you know, worked in backwards

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