#485 — Rebecca Hall

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

How do you get Rebecca Hall on the Empire Podcast? Practice! Yes folks, in the week that the London Film Festival throws opens its doors to the world, Chris Hewitt has a natter with Rebecca Hall, the writer-director of the compelling drama, Passing, which is playing at the Festival. They talk about the personal connection Rebecca felt to the story, which is about an African-American woman passing herself off as white in 1920s America, and what she inherited as a director from her father, the legendary Sir Peter Hall, and much more besides. Elsewhere, Chris is joined in the actual podbooth this week by Helen O'Hara and James Dyer for an episode in which they discuss the best movies set in deserts (brace yourself for Dunesplaining), talk about the week's movie news, review No Sudden Move, Infinite, and John And The Hole, come up with a brand new name for one of the deadliest snakes in the world, and prove that Helen does NOT trample on jokes. So there! Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Oh yeah, Rob Podcast is weak, think of your favorite halls. Royal Albert, obviously,
0:19.7	kids in there, of course, and also Rebecca Hall, who is here this week to talk about her
0:25.5	directorial debut passing, plus the usual news in nonsense on the movie podcast. It is right
0:31.4	as rain and raring to go after contracting near death. And now we're back, back, back in the
0:37.3	pod studio within contagion distance. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Hello, pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome
0:46.7	to the Empire Podcast, which if everything goes according to plan, may we'll be the last
0:50.7	Empire Podcast because we're back in the booth. We're back in the booth this week and I tell
0:53.8	you I'm not infectious. My sense of humor, maybe. And my jolly, but me when it comes to films,
1:00.4	I'm always certainly is. Am I right? Hello. Hello. It's weird being back here with you. So we had
1:07.1	this we we're together and then we were apart and now we're together again. It's like
1:11.6	a real show. It's like a show. It's all over again. It is, isn't it? Yeah. I'll Kylie,
1:16.0	Kylie's leaving. She is leaving us. Yeah. She's leaving us. She's leaving.
1:19.8	She's leaving. We're in Australia, Helen. Have you know? I have not. No, I just saw she was singing
1:23.2	with Ollie Alexander. So I was slightly and clearly as a result of that, she's not moving
1:27.2	to Australia. Yeah. Sorry, Molly. I don't believe him. He's responsible, but yeah. I mean,
1:32.4	they do have more sunshine than you know, everything they're trying to kill you. Except some of the sheep.
1:37.4	Landsnakes in the world. All 10. All 10. Wow. All 10 of the deadliest landsnakes in the world.
1:44.4	And I cannot stress that enough. They're deadliest land snakes in the world because these
1:47.8	snakes will fuck up as well. Also fucking deadly. Yeah. And they're not like that far away.
1:51.5	The sea snakes, are they? No, they're not. Some of them are actually now because the seas are
1:55.1	getting warmer for some reason. I don't have any really been paying attention. And so some of them
1:58.6	have been popping up in New Zealand, which of course has gone down badly because New Zealand,
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