It's not so much a hat-trick of amazing guests on this week's Empire Podcast, more a hat-treat as our bumper-sized Halloween edition brings you, tucked away at the episode's end (should you wish to skip there immediately), Ben Travis' warm and wonderful chat with Greta Gerwig, director of the year's biggest movie, Barbie, just in time to mark its release on home entertainment. Plus, Alex Godfrey catches up with Matt Johnson, director of the brilliant Blackberry, and Chris Hewitt talks Hammer and breaking into Pinewood Studios (hopefully not with a hammer) with the newly-revived studio's first title star, Eddie Izzard, star of Doctor Jekyll. Then, in the podbooth, Chris is joined by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and John Nugent for a spooktacular episode in which they reveal their greatest horror movie set visit experiences, talk about their ultimate monster mashes, discuss the week's movie news, and review David Fincher's The Killer, Five Nights At Freddy's, Liam Neeson's Retribution, and Cat Person. Enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS! (all approx.)
Eddie Izzard: 28:39.00 - 45:12.00
Matt Johnson: 1:05:28.00 - 1:25:07.00
Greta Gerwig: 1:46:55.00 - 2:04:56.00
Loki Season 2 PreView Special ft. Kevin R. Wright and Dan DeLeeuw
Drunk Women Empire (Live At The London Podcast Festival 2023)
#584 — John Carney, Gareth Edwards, Craig Gillespie
#583 — Mike Birbiglia, Brian Duffield
#582 — Pablo Larraín
#581 (live from the London Podcast Festival) — Celine Song, Daniel Pemberton
#580 — Antoine Fuqua, Ira Sachs
#579 — Harris Dickinson, Nick Lieberman, Juel Taylor
#578 — Alex Winter, Angel Manuel Soto, Phil Lord & Chris Miller
#577 — Gal Gadot & Alia Bhatt, Justin Simien
#576 — Ben Wheatley
#575 — Danny Philippou
#574 — Laura McGann, Christopher Nolan
Previewing FX's The Bear S2: An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
#573 — Simon Pegg & Rebecca Ferguson
#572 — Leah Lewis & Mamoudou Athie; Hayley Atwell
#571 — Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall; Eddie Hamilton
#570 — Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Bryan Cranston
Britt Ekland on The Wicker Man 50th Anniversary: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
#569 — Alice Lowe, Michael Keaton
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