The Treat: Joel Edgerton
The Treatment
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4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Actor and director Joel Edgerton often plays characters who question traditional notions of masculinity. His most recent role was as a soft-spoken logger at the turn of the 20th century in the film Train Dreams. The film is nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. For his treat, Edgerton celebrates the Welsh musician Ren, who talks openly about his mental health struggles in his music.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Treat. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Actor Joel Edgerton stars in the Netflix film Train Dreams, which got his start at last year's Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to be an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, and Song. So, for The Treat, Edgerton offers his enthusiasms about a musician he admires enough |
| 0:23.2 | to want to collaborate with one day. I am Joel Edgerton and this is the trait. I'm still here |
| 0:31.3 | in this bed that I crawled in. I hope that I'm someone else in the morning |
| 0:43.3 | I'm getting along in years and I feel like for years I'd lost touch with music and what was going on |
| 0:50.3 | and recently I started getting on to this artist who, again, I'm probably a bit late to the table, but his name is Wren. |
| 1:00.0 | But so it goes, let it be. |
| 1:07.6 | In the gallows, the balance on my toes so I can breathe. |
| 1:13.6 | You know, he's influenced by reggae and rap. |
| 1:18.6 | He's a consummate musician. |
| 1:21.6 | He can sing like crazy. |
| 1:23.6 | He's Welsh, I think. |
| 1:25.6 | And what's most fascinating about him is his ability to look |
| 1:31.3 | inside himself and be open about his own mental health issues, his own health issues in the past. |
| 1:39.7 | And to use that as inspiration, I think is very inspiring to anyone out there |
| 1:45.7 | because I think there's still a world, no matter how open we get about mental health stuff, |
| 1:50.5 | where people feel unwilling, unable, and don't have the tools to express themselves about it. |
| 2:16.0 | Yeah. Talk Outlines is a great song And oh the Money Game series |
| 2:18.5 | Particularly Money Game Part 3 |
| 2:21.0 | And it's his analysis of capitalism through those stories |
| 2:25.6 | Let me tell you a story about a boy named Jimmy |
| 2:29.7 | One years old and his first words |
| 2:31.8 | Well mine mine give me |
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