Tony Gilroy, AI in Filmmaking, and Kerry Washington on the Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis Mitchell chats with Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Tony Gilroy about the second season of the Disney+ epic Andor. Later, Elvis leads a conversation on the future impact of AI in the film industry with Range Media Partners' Peter Micelli, Google’s Neil Parris, and Sean Douglas. And on The Treat, Kerry Washington gives a shout out to the places that ground her.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	It's The Treatment.
0:15.4	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.0	You can also show at KCRW.com.
0:18.1	It's been almost 20 years since Tony Gore's last year for his feature film
0:22.8	directorial debut, Michael Clayton, which of course is an Oscar-nominated film for him. He stayed busy
0:28.2	in the interim, but one of the things I always thought about with him is that he so much makes
0:33.8	films about loyalty and betrayal, the vine that runs through his films.
0:37.9	You can certainly see it in, I think, my favorite Stephen King adaptation of all time,
0:42.0	Dolores Claiborne, and certainly his work in the Star Wars cosmology.
0:46.4	His latest along that line is the series Andor, starring a less than swashbuckling.
0:52.6	Indeed.
0:53.7	Diego Luna as Cassian and,
0:56.3	or first of all, Tony,
0:57.2	is the pleasure to have you back.
0:58.4	And it's a show about a guy
0:59.9	who doesn't get his swagger back
1:01.3	until the end of the second season.
1:03.9	No, that's a roach who turns into a butterfly.
1:07.7	But he gets his swagger back
1:09.0	almost the last shot of the show.
1:10.9	Yeah, because we lead right into Rogue One.
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