BANGLE BANG! On the Empire Podcast this week we sing because we're winning an interview

with Taryn Nejerton who's the star of Sing which is out this week and we choose

live, choose a sequel, choose you and McGregor over Pierce Morgan, choose a bunch of unbelievable

Oscar nominations and a train-spotting film on the only movie podcast that will not be bringing

you old truth this week. Hello, pod, I'm Helen O'Hara and welcome to the Empire Podcast.

Chris is away today, he's hanging out with some celebrities on a film set or is he?

This week one reader asked us and I quote,

how do we know for reals that you interview the stars etc. You could be making it all up.

Well and none as you sign yourself, maybe we are really that good at Photoshop and celebrity

voices and makeup jobs for our alleged live guests and libel law but honestly what's the more

likely scenario. This week I'm joined by two colleagues of such lethal cunning in an

intro sentence that will never make sense to me. First up is a man who has never invented an

interview with a celebrity but who were pretty sure exaggerated the enthusiasm with which Jennifer

Garner once hugged him. It's James Dyer. I resent that implication. It was very enthusiastic.

I like to think. Well, QED is an open QED. It was a little awkward, I may have held on for a

little too long, I'm just saying. You could take the chance to apologise to Jennifer Garner,

I'm sorry Jennifer, I didn't mean it. And then we have a man who is desperate to prove that he

exists and escape his existential conundrum and the only way he can do that is by interviewing

celebrities. So if they're also not real, then it's a real problem for John Eugins. Hello.

How are you doing? Oh, yeah, I'm the embodiment of fake news. My alternate truth is that you never

saw the rock and you were never in Hawaii and he never gave you tequila and you made it all up.

James in a post-truth world, we can believe what we want. All right, it's time to make like a white

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