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The Empire Film Podcast

#475 β€” Edgar Wright and Sparks, David Thewlis (Live From Kings Place)

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

This week's (belated, so sorry about that) Empire Podcast is our first live show in aaaaaaaaages, as we headed to Kings Place earlier in the week to record, at long last, our 450th episode, in front of a socially-distanced, diligently-masked but deeply supportive crowd. How long had it been since we were meant to record it? Well, this episode also doubles as our 475th episode, which should give you some idea. (25 weeks, in case it wasn't clear.) But it was absolutely worth the wait, as Edgar Wright, director of new music documentary The Sparks Brothers, popped his live show cherry and brought his chums Sparks along for the ride; while David Thewlis, the actor-turned-author, showed up to talk about his new novel, Shooting Martha. And on either side of that, Chris Hewitt is joined by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer and, for the last time, our soon to be former Editor-In-Chief, Terri White, for a typically raucous live show, featuring movie news chat, reviews of The Suicide Squad, Limbo, The Sparks Brothers, and Jungle Cruise, an extended audience Q&A, a Three Fact Structure for the ages, and an actual ghost. Thanks for everything, Terri. It's been a blast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, here we go my music music please my throne

0:03.6

Oh yeah here we go here we go

0:14.9

Up 3, 1, 2, 3, out of the MPR

0:19.1

I guess this ring will lie with kids but it's not done for a 4 out of the 15 episodes

0:26.6

We're finally on the 4 out of the 75 episodes

0:36.6

We're finally on the 4 out of the 15 episodes

0:42.6

Hello pods, I am Chris Hewitts

0:46.6

Welcome to the 450th slash 4 out of the 75th episode of the MPR podcast

0:53.6

Long story short, we were meant to record this back in February here at King's Place

1:00.6

We were excited, we were up for it, I had even bought new underpants

1:05.6

I'd even had a wash

1:08.6

Not doing that again, but then of course

1:12.6

COVID, got in the way, COVID, that's all COVID

1:18.6

Actually, we're not afraid of COVID, fuck you COVID

1:23.6

Yeah, COVID's got a plus 1 tonight actually

1:26.6

Everything got locked down as a result, King's Place got locked down

1:31.6

Time ticked on relentlessly, but then Freedom Day arrived

1:35.6

All right, Freedom Day, we all got jabbed

1:39.6

One day King's Place called me and said Chris

1:42.6

Do you want to do episode 450 live after all?

1:45.6

And I thought, you know what, if Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez can get a 2 over

1:50.6

Thank God, damn it, we're gonna get a 2 over 2

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