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

It's The Treatment.

It's the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. A story said in the Southwest about somebody who's basically

trying to create a narrative that not everybody understands, maybe including even himself.

That could be a story of 1996's Bottle Rocket, but it's also the story of the new film, Asteroid City.

It's director and co-writer and longtime friend of the show. Wes Anderson is here.

Wes, how are you? I'm good. I am a long-time friend of the show. I go all the way back.

Yes, you do to the very beginning. You have made so many stories about people creating narratives,

haven't you? With this movie, I'll tell you what happened was,

Roman Coppola, and I have a few vague ideas for this next thing we want to do, but the number

one thing is we want to write a part for Jason Schwartzman that something he hasn't played

before and that that is going to be the center of this movie.

So the movie kind of grew around making this role for Jason, but part of what we had was wanting

to do something that was both set in the kind of backstage world or backstage story of a 1950s New York stage show

and to do the show itself, to do the play that they're preparing. And we sort of had

things in mind like, you know, one thing we talk about was picnic and bus stop.

And we found ourselves with a sort of Western play on a New York stage.

And the movie grew up, grew from those ingredients.

Interesting because those also sort of very much New York takes on the West, those

pieces that you're talking about.

Yes, yes, completely.

You know, I'm from Texas.

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