#422 — James McAvoy

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Sandman, bring us a dream! James McAvoy is the guest on this week's latest lockdown episode of the Empire Podcast, having a good old natter with Chris Hewitt about McAvoy's latest project, the Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's legendary comic book series, The Sandman, in which McAvoy plays Morpheus, lord of dreams. They also chat about McAvoy's geekdom, his Stephen King experience on It Chapter 2, his recent FIFA game with Liam Payne for Soccer Aid, and his starring role in cheap-as-chips lockdown Instagram show, the very funny Space Force. Then, in the virtual podbooth, Chris is joined by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer and, in the fourth chair this week, Ben Travis for an episode that brings you all kinds of mind-blowing film facts, discussion of the week's movie news, including the sad passing of the great Ennio Morricone, reviews of The Old Guard, Greyhound, and Finding The Way Back, and possibly the most self-indulgent listener's question bit in the pod's history. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	All the Emperor Podcasts this week is a case of enter Sandman as we talked to James
0:19.2	McAfoy aka Morpheus in a new audio series version of the Sandman Plus, the usual news
0:26.3	in nonsense on the movie podcast to can't wait genuinely cannot wait to hear James
0:31.3	Dyer's version of toss a coin to your Witcher on his freshly purchased guitar. Maybe we
0:37.1	ask nicely he might do it this episode. Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and believe me,
0:41.7	that is the only time I'm ever going to be excited to hear James Dyer tossing. Welcome
0:46.6	to the Empire Podcast. This week I am joined by three colleagues of such lethal cunning.
0:52.4	I've already mentioned him 14 times. If James Dyer is here, which is nice, I guess. Hello.
0:57.4	How are you? I'm good. I'm good. My guitar playing is coming along, but I'm having difficulty
1:01.5	maintaining a consistent strumming rhythm, which I understand is an issue that affects
1:06.7	gentleman's mind. It's going to say so. It's like, you finished that sentence. Well,
1:11.8	Chris, you see, I'm having problems maintaining a consistent. I'm going to stop you, James.
1:16.7	If you don't mind, how is a guitar playing coming? So are you, you know, how many chords
1:22.2	do you learn now? Where are you? I know six chords and three slightly suspect riffs,
1:27.9	and I'm working on strumming rhythms and whatnot. I'm enjoying it, actually. I've never
1:32.3	played the guitar. This is new. I don't play any instruments, apart from the Didgerie
1:35.9	Doe, and I do that badly. It's more of a Didgerie, don't. But yeah, I'm enjoying it. It's
1:41.6	good. I'm rocking out. So I suspect I shall be gigging within the month.
1:45.7	Where? And to whom is? Exactly. Maybe to squirrels.
1:51.6	Maybe where I live. I think that's a squirrel's. Shut the fuck up.
1:57.9	We're also joined, of course, by our geek queen, Helen O'Hara. How are you?
2:01.2	I'm very well. Thank you. I am. Yeah. You know, just keep an on, keep an on. Not taking up any
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