#419 — Armando Iannucci, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

In this week's bumper-sized (so much so, in fact, we're wondering if we should have split it into two parts like last week) Empire Podcast, Chris Hewitt chats to Armando Iannucci, the co-writer/director of The Personal History Of David Copperfield about discovering optimism, and how hard it is to write comedy in the middle of a pandemic. And John Nugent talks to Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the latter returns to our screens with gripping plane hijack thriller, 7500. In the remote podbooth, Chris is then joined by James Dyer and Helen O'Hara, as per usual. But the rotating fourth chair this week is occupied by Dave Corkery and Cathy Cullen, the married couple who host one of our favourite podcasts, The Cinemile. Together, this intrepid quintet tackle the Film Fact section, answer questions about graduation speeches and non-trilogy trilogies (it'll make sense when you listen), discuss the planned return of cinemas in the UK, and review 7500, Dating Amber, Resistance, and Radioactive. We can see now why this is bumper-sized. Enjoy, if just for the Irish accents of four-fifths of the team getting increasingly thicker as the pod goes on. Wee buns!

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0:00.0	All the Emperor podcasts this week are Mando Iannucci gives us his personal history
0:18.6	of the personal history of David Copperfield and we lock ourselves in a pod pit with Joseph
0:23.8	Gordon Levitt, star of 7500, plus the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast
0:29.3	of the day.
0:30.3	It might need a shower.
0:32.3	Hmm, no, it's only been a few weeks, a few weeks more, won't hurt.
0:37.8	Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the Emperor podcast which once again this
0:41.0	week has brought to you from glorious COVID-19 related lockdown.
0:45.4	Cinema's may be tentatively making plans to reopen in July more on that later on, but
0:50.0	I am my colleagues of such lethal cunning will be kept apart.
0:53.2	I'd say for the next couple of months at least, but when the day comes when we can all be
0:57.9	in the same room, I promise you right now there's going to be more face rubbing.
1:01.3	Oh, your face is being rubbed Helena Harra.
1:03.6	Anyway, who are those colleagues of such lethal cunning?
1:09.0	New York texture for that.
1:10.8	Anyway, my colleagues of such lethal cunning today are as ever you already heard her geek
1:14.9	queen.
1:16.4	Helena Harra.
1:17.4	Hello, I'm a new aunt again.
1:19.9	Are you?
1:20.9	Well, like Aunt May.
1:21.9	Yeah, no, I'm still me, but I have a new niece as well as an effuent, very excited.
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