The Treatment

The late director Rob Reiner’s prolific talents spanned medium and genre. Reiner started out as an actor on Norman Lear’s classic sitcom All In the Family. He then made the transition to behind the camera with ease, directing comedic gems including This is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, and The Princess Bride. He proved equally adept at drama with Stand by Me and Misery. For The Trea...

Elvis talks with Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell whose latest work is on full display in Wicked: For Good. Tazewell talks about working with Cynthia Erivo in the Wicked films; the story behind Bernardo's suit in the Stephen Spielberg directed remake of West Side Story, and he talks about bringing the personal into ...

Actor Greg Kinnear has starred in dozens of roles on film and TV from his breakout role in 1995’s Sabrina, to his Oscar nominated role in As Good as It Gets alongside Jack Nicholson, but he actually got his start in broadcasting. Kinnear hosted E!’s Talk Soup and the late-night talk show Later with Greg Kinnear. For his Treat, Kinn...

This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with actor, producer and all-around Hollywood powerhouse Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock.” Johnson stars in the new Benny Safdie film The Smashing Machine alongside Emily Blunt where he portrays real life MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson talks about going deep for the role, performing the role of "The ...

Director Joshua Rofé’s unforgettable HBO documentary series The Mortician, about an unethical family-run funeral home, left its mark on audiences. For his treat, Rofé pays tribute to the underrated 1977 William Friedkin film, Sorcerer. Rofé recalls his first time watching it in a theater and breaks down why it’...

 Director Matt Shakman helmed one of the summer’s biggest hits — Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. But his earliest film inspiration was the 1949 Carol Reed noir The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. Shakman cites the film’s post-war setting, storytelling, and great performances as having had a lasting impact on him. Plus, he reveals a surprisi...

Elvis chats with actor, comedian, and musician Fred Armisen about his fun new album 100 Sound Effects. 

From fake applause to champagne glass breaking, this album is stacked. Elvis and Fred talk about the absurd specificity of each track, which sound was surprisingly hard to capture, the evolution of sound effect albums, and their shared love of drumming. 

 

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 Although he’s been retired from the NFL for more than a decade, director and actor Nnamdi Asomugha still gets inspired by a team coming together under difficult circumstances. For his treat, he credits the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers about paratroopers in World War II  with keeping him going while recuperating from a foot...

Director Nia DaCosta’s new film Hedda is a daring adaptation of the 1891 Henrik Ibsen play Hedda Gabler. DaCosta talks with Elvis about not treating the original text too seriously, using physical spaces to define characters, and what Hedda surprisingly has in common with DaCosta's previous films The Marvels and Candyman.

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Emmy award winning actor Jeremy Strong about his new film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Strong plays Springsteen's producer and manager Jon Landau in the film about the making of the 1982 album Nebraska. Then, Elvis speaks with photographer Chris Fenimore, who is also the creator of the inf...

At 82-years-old, Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese’s excitement for creating moving images is as palpable as ever. This quality shines throughout actor/filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s new Apple TV+ documentary Mr. Scorsese and she’s here to tell us all about her process, including the key to getting her subject to open up on camera. Plus, writer Brad Inglesby (Task, Mare of Eastto...

This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with director Luca Guadagnino, whose latest film is After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Adebiri. Then, actor and director Colin Hanks stops by to talk about his new documentary John Candy: I Like Me. And on the Treat, Andor creator Tony Gilroy honors his family.

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with famed restaurateur Drew Nieporent, whose new memoir I'm Not Trying to Be Difficult details his rise from humble beginnings to starting restaurants including Nobu and The Tribeca Grill. Then, actor and director Nnamdi Asomugha stops by to talk about his directorial debut The Knife and the now shelved Apple TV+ series The Savant. And on the Treat, actor a...

This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Oscar winning actor Cillian Murphy about his new Netflix film Steve, in which he plays the titular role of a struggling teacher working with kids at a reform school. Then, writer Tim Deegan stops by to talk about his new book Saving Rocky Horror: From Orphan to Icon. And on The Treat, Oscar nominat...

This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with writer, director, and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn about season two of the HBO Max series Peacemaker and this summer’s hit Superman. Then, filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura stops to talk about Third Act, his very personal new documentary about his late father, director Robert A. Nakamura.  And on The Treat, Bono meditates on the idea of surrender...