All the Empire Podcasts this week we talk to Lem Selves from herself, the star and

writer Claire Dunn and the director Philodeloid, plus we hear from Candyman's director woman,

Nia de Costa, all that and the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that has

dressed up for the occasion in a skin-type leotard, nothing to do with Abery forming,

we're just in that kind of mood. Hello pod, I'm Chris Ewitt and welcome to the Empire Podcast

this week with a live show taking place at King's Place on Saturday. As part of the London

podcast festival we're changing things up a bit around here, by the way tickets for that are

still available, we can promise you film chat, spot prizes, cracking special guests, giggling idiots

and much rudeness if that is your bag. Go to King's Place.co.uk to snap up your seat or seats

or a streaming pass. We would love to see you there. So for that show we have decided to put

Helen and James on ice permanently. I'm not allowed to kill them, they've made that quite

clear to me, stupid laws. And now we're going to keep them fresh for Saturday and so they're not

in the virtual pod booth this week but we have found two people of equal intelligence,

equal hand sim this and arguably superior moral fiber to fill their shoes, Edmund himself,

newly minted Empire editor, Nick DeSemilian. Hello, hello from it's been ages. I'm very happy to be

back. There was a small, a small, a small petition from people demanding a return to the podcast.

Yeah, that took me a while to put together as well. Yeah, you know, listening to what once they

hit a hundred thousand signatures, they had to be discussed in parliament. Yours hit

like six signatures, but six, I got six, six, six. Yeah, I appreciate one of them was from your cat,

Wingsie. Wingsie put in a few votes. Oh, Wingsie. She's just like a paw print right there.

Who knows what the hell she was up to. Wingsie named of course after Harry Winks.

And Harry Winks is Nick apparently a football man. I should I should probably explain that

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