Paint actor Owen Wilson on the beauty of embracing failure

Actor and screenwriter Owen Wilson can be relied upon for easy charm in films like The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Wedding Crashers. His latest project, Paint, features another low-key charmer, Carl Nargle, an artist who has achieved a certain kind of fame hosting his public television show.

Wilson tells The Treatment that Nargle, whose style and musical tastes appear to be trapped in the late ‘70s, found success being who he was and so never felt the need to change. He discusses the pain and the comedy of his character facing failure, and why he sees beauty in Neil Young’s embrace of his less successful work.

Steven Yeun finds rage and bitterness in Beef

Actor Steven Yeun avoids repeating himself by testing new roles. After a breakthrough acting performance on The Walking Dead series, he branched out into a wide range of films including the brooding Korean-language film Burning, he starred in Jordan Peele’s 2022 UFO thriller, Nope, and now he’s back on TV with Beef.

Yeun discusses his fears in taking a role in the 2020 Oscar-winning drama film Minari, why he and his Beef co-star broke out in hives after production wrapped, and how Netflix’s offer for the series was too good to turn down.

Little Richard, not Elvis, created modern-day rock and roll

Before Elvis, The Beatles, and David Bowie, there was Little Richard. Music historians consider him to be the architect who developed the sound and attitude of rock and roll, especially with hits like “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall Sally,” and “Lucile.” He was also one of the first openly queer entertainers on the radio, defined by his flamboyant clothing and makeup.

But despite that enormous legacy, his contributions went largely ignored for much of his career, and he didn’t make much money off of those seminal recordings. It’s all the focus of a new documentary called Little Richard: I Am Everything. Directed by Lisa Cortés, the film examines the musician’s life and rock music’s origins — each rooted in the Black, queer American experience.

Through surfing, these women built self-worth and community

As a Black woman, Gabriella Angotti-Jones was rare in the world of US surfers, which has been mostly dominated by white men. She grew up in Capistrano Beach in Orange County and got her first surfboard when she was nine years old. She talks about that and many other moments in I Just Wanna Surf, a book mainly of photos — of her friends in and out of the water — and short reflections on her life.