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The Empire Film Podcast

#438 β€” Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, Sope Dirisu

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

As luck, or the devilish machinations of our dark lord Beelzebub, would have it, this week's episode of the Empire Podcast is, if you count all our specials and one-offs, our 666th. It's all for you Damien etc. etc. And, as it lands one day before Halloween, it's a suitably spooky ep, as Chris Hewitt has a chat with fast-rising British actor Sope Dirisu, star of the fabulous Netflix horror movie, His House. They also talk about Sope's breakout year, his role in Gangs Of London, his former life as an economist, and Thierry Henry. Our other guests this week are Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, the co-directors of the wonderful Irish animated film, Wolfwalkers, and they talk to Amon Warmann about that, about the state of animation, and about Batman. Well, of course. Then, in the virtual podbooth, Chris is joined by Amon, Helen O'Hara and Beth Webb to answer a ton of your Halloween-themed questions, drop the shortest Three Fact Structure to date, discuss the week's movie news and, in a bumper reviews section, cast a critical eye over His House, The Witches, Relic, Mogul Mowgli, Shirley and Wolfwalkers. Oh, and Helen ruins everything with her potty mouth. Enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Empire Podcast

0:14.1

On the Empire Podcast this week, we should create ourselves inside the walls of Shopei

0:18.4

Dariusu's home and have a chat with the star of his house, and he knew nothing about it,

0:24.8

and things get pretty animated animated.

0:27.8

With two of the finest animators in the world, Wolf Walker's directors Tom Moore and

0:32.3

Ross Stewart.

0:33.3

All that.

0:34.3

Plus, the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast says it's time.

0:39.7

Time.

0:40.7

Time to hear the magic podcast.

0:43.3

Oh yes indeed.

0:44.3

I'm just realizing I'm still eating a strepsil.

0:47.1

Hello, pod, I'm Chris Huett, and welcome to the 666th episode of the Empire Podcast.

0:55.1

I know it says episode 438 on your little podcast device.

0:59.0

And technically speaking that is true, but our podcast hosting service tells us with all

1:04.6

the specials we've done over the years, all the interview specials, all the reviews

1:07.9

of the year, all the general Newtling around that we've done as well.

1:11.2

This episode is actually 666th.

1:16.0

The podcast of the beast, which is apt folks, because it is, as you're listening to this,

1:24.0

probably the day before Halloween.

1:27.2

And you know what that means?

1:28.2

That's true.

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