Stay from London — it is Friday night time! And it is also one other bumper, jam-packed version of the Empire Podcast that we have got in retailer for you this week, expensive listeners. The good Angelina Jolie heads up our trio of fantastic company, as she talks to our very personal musical icon, George Har— we imply, er, John Nugent about taking up the problem of enjoying legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria [20:48 — 34:02 approx.] Then, Chris Hewitt has a captivating chat with Jason Reitman about how, precisely, he recreated the chaos of SNL’s opening night time in Saturday Night time [56:33 — 1:15:42 approx.] And finishing the hat-trick of guesting all-stars, lastly Chris is again once more and sitting down on Zoom with EE Rising Star Award nominee David Jonsson, who joins us for a natter about that, about Rye Lane, in regards to the distinction between a stroll and a strut, and about tackling a really advanced function in Alien: Romulus, which is out now on Disney+ [1:38:23 — 1:56:21 approx.]
In the meantime, again within the podbooth, Chris is joined by Helen O’Hara and James Dyer to share their ideas on the latest West Finish model of The Tempest, which is type of movie associated due to the Sigourney Weaver connection. The staff additionally return to an previous favorite format as this week’s listener query has them placing collectively a Mount Rushmore of SNL stars, which is type of movie associated due to the Saturday Night time connection. Elsewhere, over on the information entrance, the staff deal with double Robert Eggers film bulletins Werwulf and Labyrinth 2, the brand new trailer for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Eddie Murphy’s Blue Falcon, George Nolfi boarding the New Jedi Order Star Wars film, and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot plans. All that, and there is nonetheless time to spare for evaluations of Saturday Night time, Companion, and Mike Leigh’s Exhausting Truths. Get pleasure from.
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