The Revenant Director Alejandro Chi in Eritsu and one of his stars Donald Gleason entered

the pod booth and an exit pursued by Bear. Plus we discuss the Oscar nominations, Creed,

much, much more on the movie podcast that normally would put a joke in a

disbid but quite frankly, David Bowie and Alan Rickman are dead and I don't much feel like it.

Hello pod, I'm Chris Huid, welcome to the 194th Empire podcast just six more to go into our

200th episode to keep your ears peeled for some very special news about that. I'm sure you can

figure out what that means. But yes, we recorded this in Thursday afternoon, just after the Oscar

nominations came out. But more importantly, I think just after news reached this all,

lately, great Alan Rickman, who is very special to us at Empire, as I'm sure regular listens

to the podcast will know, has died at the age of 69. This comes in the same week of course at the

great legendary David Bowie died also at the age of 69. If this is your first Empire podcast,

this is not the regular format, but I'm going to change it up a bit for a long time listeners.

Normally we have a question of the week sending for someone via Twitter. I'm not going to do that.

Instead, we're going to talk about Alan Rickman and David Bowie. They're a great career.

There's a great lives on what they mean to us. And then we're going to get on with the regular

podcast. But here today to join me to talk about David Bowie, Alan Rickman, the Oscars,

and all sorts of other stuff. Our art house guru, Phil Desemnon, hello.

Hi Chris. Our Jurassic World expert and indeed star, Nick Desemnon.

Greetings, hello. At a Golden Globes guru, our award season specialist, Emma Throer. How are you?

I'm good. Hi Chris. I'm good. I'm good. I could be better. I'll be honest.

That's that's that's start with Alan Rickman. I think this one and David Bowie, this is this is

knocked us all for six. Rickman in particular, I think because it feels so fresh and unexpected.

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