#472 — William Shatner

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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OK, full disclosure. If you saw the name 'William Shatner' in the episode title and thought, 'yes! I bet the Empire Podcast asked him loads of questions about Star Trek and Columbo and Airplane! II: The Sequel and Boston Legal and generally being awesome!', then we should tell you that while that was the plan, sometimes plans can go awry. So yes, William Shatner is this week's guest on the Empire Podcast. And yes, Chris Hewitt had a lovely time talking to a living legend. And yes, they even talk about films every now and again, including Shatner's latest, Senior Moment. But by and large, it's a rollercoaster ride of an interview that mainly focuses on the various injuries that Shatner has suffered in his life, and his appetite for derring-do and excitement, even at the age of 90. We had a blast. We hope you will too, and forgive the lack of Trekkery. Elsewhere in this episode, with Helen O'Hara popping in briefly from her swanky one-room Cannes Film Festival sweatbox, James Dyer and Ben Travis join Chris for film-related fun. They talk about the week's movie news, they discuss which movie sets they regret not being able to visit thanks to Covid, and they review Black Widow and the first two parts of Netflix's horror trilogy, Fear Street. And they also talk about the football for a bit which, given James' antipathy towards the beautiful game, goes about as well as you might expect. Enjoy. It's coming home. Podcast's coming home.

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0:00.0	Diedly, diddly, diddly, diddly, diddly, bang, bang, bang.
0:14.2	On the Empire podcast this week, Pod is the final frontier.
0:19.2	As we talk to the legendary Captain James Tiberius Kirk himself, the incredible William
0:26.3	Shatner and don't mention Star Trek once. Plus, the usual news and nonsense on the movie
0:32.9	podcast, it is alarmed to hear that it's coming home. God damn you Pennywise, we thought
0:39.6	you were dead, we thought you were dead! Dead lights, Chris, dead lights.
0:45.0	Whose blusers club lived up their name?
0:46.8	Hmm, they are the shit. It is coming home. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to
0:51.7	the Empire podcast. Set some men, Helen Ettercan, Paul Festevaldecan, Dumille Fanté Un,
0:59.0	Alain et le Païc, Ojord Vi.
1:02.4	Oh, you're Germans really coming along this week.
1:04.0	Thank you, thank you, thank you. So no hell in this week, no hell in this week folks,
1:08.4	and we also had a last minute injury in the warm-up, which means there is no revolving
1:14.4	fourth chair this week. Yeah. So, you know what that means?
1:18.7	No three thanks rupture, you know what it also means?
1:22.2	Lad's night? Oh yes, it's just me and the bloody lad's necking pale ails and griffy
1:30.1	t-eam for 90 minutes. Yeah, it is.
1:36.0	Oh, yeah.
1:37.1	Yeah.
1:38.7	Oh, yeah.
1:39.7	Yeah, that's good.
1:40.7	It's too lad's.
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