Finally bang! On the upper podcast this week it's time for the Reffiner random! As

a neon demon director Nicholas winding Reffan and his star L Fanning drop by for the most

important interview of our lifetime. Plus the usual movie news and nonsense on the

podcast is preparing to say goodbye to one of its own. Hello pod I'm Chris Hewitt and

welcome to the Empire podcast. As ever I'm joined by three colleagues of such

lethal cunning this week Helen Ahara. Howdy. Johnny Pyle. Hello mate. And Dan

Jolen. Greetings. Now you may have noticed I've spared them all a pithy intro and

Helen went to glass for the last week. I mean talk about a fish out of water. I mean

and I can't even make a joke about that because we're flipping the format this

week. We're flipping it a little bit. Right. Questions will come at the end and also

because we're hurting. We're hurting which is why I had to do pithy intro this week

because this is Dan Jolens last podcast as a staffer here at the Empire because

after a decade of glorious service aboard the good ship Empire he's bugging off

in search of pastures new but don't worry we're gonna send Dan off with the

dig the task the dig the D he deserves. Yeah you're leaving man. Yeah that's

actually 12 years. 12 I know I said more than a decade. 12 years. I'm not ashamed.

12 years. I'm glorious here. Yeah. Alright well we'll get into it all Dan later on.

We've got a lot of questions for you from readers. We're gonna stream with people

coming in to give heartfelt testimonials. It'll all be really rather emotional and lovely.

Who's coming in? What? A stream of people. A stream. Star guests. I've arranged big

names. Big. Big A list names. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top. Top.

No one's coming in. Oh okay. No one's coming in. Alright. Johnny's here. Johnny's

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