This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down with two wonderful guests — first, we strap Chris Pratt to a chair (metaphorically speaking, that is) and ask him about his new thriller, Mercy, in which he does battle with an A.I. judge played by Rebecca Ferguson; [25:50 — 40:14 approx] and then Claire Foy, star of this week’s moving drama, H Is For Hawk, drops by the office to talk about working with goshawks and Brendan Gleeson. [1:13:07 — 1:32:55 approx.] Both are delights, we’re sure you’ll agree.
Either side of those, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O’Hara, James Dyer and, briefly, Beth Webb for a fun episode in which they reveal their specialist subject on Mastermind, discuss great movie doctors, review No Other Choice, Saipan, Mercy, The History Of Sound, and H Is For Hawk, and go all-in on Oscar nominations discussion in a bumper-sized movie news section. It’s all here, apart from the bits we cut out. Enjoy!
And if all of the above isn’t quite enough Empire Podcast for you, then there’s plenty more where that came from. You can listen to this week’s episode (which, if you’re counting, is #702) on the pod app of your choice. There, you’ll also find the first episode of a new Empire Pod regular, The Interviews, which kicks off with a pair of ace interviews — firstly with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun on workplace satire No Other Choice, and then with Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke on football biopic Saipan. You lucky, lucky lot!
