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The Empire Film Podcast

#415 β€” Jason Isaacs, Kumail Nanjiani

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

This week's slab of locked down, self-isolated, quarantined Empire Podcast sees the team β€” Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer β€” joined in the revolving fourth chair by one of our favourite people, the amazing anecdote machine that is Jason Isaacs. Jason joins the gang to talk about his new movie, Scoob!, life under lockdown as an actor, and reel off an array of incredible stories about his career. He also joins in with the new weekly film fact section, answers listener questions, and discusses movie news with the team, including Luca Guadagnino's remake of Scarface, and the confirmation that Zack Snyder's Justice League cut is finally going to see the light of day. Elsewhere, on the show, Chris, Helen and James review The Lovebirds, The Half Of It, and All Day And A Night, Chris lists a bunch of cinemas that need your support, and he has a fun natter with The Lovebirds star, Kumail Nanjiani, in which they talk about working out and eating lots of pies. Mmm... pies. Enjoy.

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0:00.0

BANGLE BANG! On the Emperor Podcast this week, we say hello to Camel Nanjiani, Star

0:19.2

of the Lovebirds and we're joined by a new member of the team, it's only Jason Bloody

0:25.1

Isaacs, all that and usual news and nonsense. On the movie podcast, it says you have not lived

0:31.2

until you've talked a major film director through using a pair of headphones, it's really

0:35.6

quite simple, it should be really quite simple. Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome

0:40.0

to this week's Empire Podcast brought to you once again, yes I'm afraid, on lockdown,

0:45.0

it's one of the hottest days of the year so far and I've got my window shut because I'm

0:48.4

being all professional, melty and professional. And speaking of melty and professional, here

0:53.8

really are, it's Helena Harrah and James Dyer. Hello guys, which one's which? Oh, I'm

1:01.2

messy, he's professional, no white, I think James is melty, Helen's professional, that's

1:06.6

how it works. And this week continuing our semi-regular lockdown tradition, we have thrown

1:12.5

open the revolving fourth chair on the show, it doesn't literally revolve, that would be weird,

1:17.9

he's someone who doesn't make his living like us, sneering at people who make art, no,

1:23.0

no, no, he makes art, he's one of our favorite actors returning for another dose of pod

1:29.3

goodness, please welcome the star of event horizon and some other stuff that I'm sure is also

1:36.0

very good, which is chase lines. Well, hello there, I'm just curious now, given how many

1:43.4

millions of these podcasts you've done, do you see yourself more as a broadcaster who moonlights

1:48.5

as a journalist, or are you a journalist who's still getting a new fangle? I ask the questions

1:54.4

here, Isaac, so much. I'm not going to picture you, that people can't see one too, you've got

1:59.3

a big phone mic there with a pop guard, you've got the headphones on, you've got that whole

2:03.6

kind of, you know, Robin Williams' intro, I'm thinking, good, good stuff. It's your writing

2:08.6

suffering by comparison, is the question. I think I speak for us all when I say yes.

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