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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.

Music and KCOW.com. It's the Treatment. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome the director of tonight's film Tom Hooper.

And you're blushing a little bit right now.

Thank you for that response.

One of the things I'd said in the introduction, I just mentioned you backstage,

that this feels to me, this film, like the concluding part of a trilogy between King's Speech and the Miserab and this.

And you had an interesting reaction to that when I said that.

Yeah, I mean, you're the first person who's made that observation.

No, I meant that in a good way.

Thank you, Tom.

I mean, there is something interesting that at the center of all three movies, the films speak about the transformative possibility of being loved.

For Jean Valjean, it's that scene with the priest when Valjean is to his amazement,

the priest lies on his behalf and forgives him.

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