On the Empire Podcast this week, we celebrate the Patriarchy. Wait what?

With Sir Anthony Hopkins and Director Florian Zeller of The Father. We're seeking signs

of intelligence with Nick Muhammad and David Schwimmer and we're bringing you a taster of

John Krasinski talking about a quiet place part two. Plus all the usual movie news and nonsense

only only movie podcasts that wonders how many trailers Andrew Garfield can appear in

in a single week. Hello and welcome to this week's Empire Podcast. I'm Helen O'Hara

and in the absence of our beloved leader, I mean who wrote this? Look, okay, I'm going

off script. Chris is away, he deserves a break, we're very thrilled that he's actually having

one. We actually had to kick him out the door physically but he has gone and in his absence

I'm going to be hosting and you know what that means? I'm so sorry guys, there's only three

of us. There will be no three facts structure. What a shame. What a tragedy. What a pain.

But I had a fact this week. Oh no, I researched for hours and hours and hours. It was going

to be a great one. Oh, what a shame. But never fear. I'm still joined by two colleagues

of such lethal cunning. You have just heard their voices. We are joined by James Dyer,

a man who never got on a bus without taking apart an entire policy of Russian gangsters.

Hello James. Thanks. I didn't spin a while since we've referenced the fact that I look

like an extra from John Wick too. So thanks for that. That's good. This is an extra from

nobody this week and being timely. Oh yes, that is true. I mean, they're much the same

but we'll get on to that later. And we're also joined by Ben Travis who, to my knowledge,

has never beaten up any gangsters on buses. But maybe that's just what he wants me to think.

That's my secret identity. I'm hiding in plain sight. I have never been more scared of

James than when we went to a promotional thing for the Meg. And there was like one of those

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