This week’s Empire Podcast — coming just seven days before Halloween — is an all treats, no tricks kind of affair as we welcome a whole heap of stellar guests onto the show. First up, Helen O’Hara has a lovely chat with Hedda director Nia DaCosta; then Chris Hewitt talks to Jeremy Strong, star of Scott Cooper’s The Boss biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere; and last but by no means least, Chris is back at it again, having a joyous natter about the end of the world with Rebecca Ferguson and Kathryn Bigelow, star and director respectively of Netflix nuke thriller A House Of Dynamite.
Back in the podbooth, Chris struggles with the enunciation of one word in particular (you’ll have to listen to find out which). Incredibly, it’s not ‘Howl-o-ween’, which is just one of the many things discussed by Chris and his three colleagues of such lethal cunning, Helen O’Hara, James Dyer, and Ben Travis. Together, the gang get their teeth into movies in which a main character is ill, talk about the shock revelation that Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh had developed a literal Solo movie for Kylo Ren, and review Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind. Enjoy!
You can listen to this week’s episode (which, if you’re counting, is #690) on the pod app of your choice.
