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    The Treatment

    Benicio Del Toro: Sicario

    Actor Benicio Del Toro joins Elvis Mitchell to discuss his film Sicario.

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    By Elvis Mitchell • Nov 25, 2015 • 29m Listen

    Actor Benicio Del Toro has played characters big and small in films like Traffic, The Way of the Gun and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Today, he discusses the process of adapting to his character in Sicario and reflects on how his time as a young actor training with Stella Adler in Los Angeles formed his acting technique.

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      Elvis Mitchell

      host of KCRW’s The Treatment

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      Blake Veit

      Producer, 'The Treatment'

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      Benicio Del Toro

      Award-winning actor

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