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
The Ranking: Nicolas Cage (The Empire 500 Live Show)
#514 — Ke Huy Quan, Scott Thompson & Bruce McCulloch
Joe Russo At The Sands International Film Festival: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
#513 — Elizabeth Olsen
#512 — Laura Carmichael & Tuppence Middleton, Julian Fellowes
#511 — Eddie Marsan
#510 — Colin Firth & Matthew Macfadyen, Alexander Skarsgård
#509 — Daniel Radcliffe
#508 — Matt Smith, Ruth Wilson
Moon Knight Interview Special ft. Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy and Mohamed Diab
#507 — Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Andrew Dominik, Renate Reinsve
The Great Unwatched — An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With JustWatch
#506 — Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Simon Farnaby
The Three Fact Structure (Live At Episode 500)
#505 — Sandra Oh and Rosalie Chiang, Sean Baker
A Deep Dive Into The Dropout: An Empire Podcast + Pilot TV Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+
#504 — David Koepp, Paul Dano
Questlove On Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — An Empire Podcast Interview Special
Kenneth Branagh On Belfast — An Empire Podcast Interview Special
#503 — Joe Wright, Paul Thomas Anderson, Dave Grohl
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