On the Empire Podcast this week we invite Steve Carell to our pants party to celebrate

the release of Alexander and the terrible horrible no good, very bad day.

While Fury director David Air trains his guns on the pod booth because he's driving

the tank you see. Plus here's your movie news and nonsense on the only movie podcast

that has no strings on it. Hello pod, I'm Chris here. Welcome to the Empire Podcast

this week. I'm joined by three colleagues of well, fairytales, of lethal cunning to

be honest. First up is our resident film fact-fiend. A man is forgotten more about forgetting

more about film and you'll ever remember about forgetting about film is Ali Plum.

Did you know that Will Smith, his first name is actually Willard? No way. Yep. Holy cow.

Did you know that Tom Cruise's real name is Thomas Cruise Maypooth or the Fourth? Yes.

Yes you did. Good. I was just checking. Just double checking. Next up is a man who I

only just discovered. I've worked with him for years but I only just discovered. Not

only is he an art house guru but he's a World War II fanatic. Of course he is. It was shot

in black and white and there are subtitles everywhere. It's Phil DeSemlian. Oh hello.

Are you trying to force a triumph of the Phil? I thought you were talking about James there

for a minute. When you use the word fanatic in the World War II together immediately

he makes people think about the SS. I want a distance myself from that. But is it

a fanatic of the set of your board? No, you're a PDF. I mean the PDFs. I feel I'm very

shaky ground here making SS jokes this time of the day so we're going to step away from

that. But yeah I know I studied history so I have a sort of an interest I suppose should

we say? What particular area? What are the war? All the explosions. How long do we have?

I mean that's interesting. It was a big event obviously. I don't know if you describe

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