#526 — John McTiernan, Amber Midthunder

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

We've got Predator on our minds this week on the Empire Podcast. Which makes a change. Not only do we review Dan Trachtenberg's Prey, his prequel to John McTiernan's 1987 action classic, but Chris Hewitt sits down with that film's star, Amber Midthunder, for a fun interview in which they discuss how Amber, whose parents are an actor and a casting director, wasn't necessarily fated to become an actor, about Prey's commitment to Comanche traditions, going to craft services with a Predator, and using Brazilian jiu jitsu to take out a bunch of feral children. Chris also has a sit-down with the legendary John McTiernan, who came into London last week for The London Action Fest, and while they only talk about Predator a bit, there's plenty of Die Hard and The Hunt For Red October chat to keep you action aficionados happy. Back in the pod booth, Helen O'Hara hosts this week, due to Chris being locked in mortal combat with an alien hunter (or in LA for a set visit; one of the two), and she's joined by James Dyer and Ben Travis to discuss movies which would benefit from gender-flipping their lead from a man to a woman (in the wake of the England Women's team's triumph at the Euros), review Prey, Bullet Train and Luck, and dive deep into the week's movie news, including the Batgirl debacle. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	I'll give her a good guess. This week we have been taken over by predators. Yes, we'll
0:18.1	be saying a prayer with Amber Mithunder, the devout star of predator's sequel, pray.
0:22.9	Wait, have I got that spelling right? Are we praying with her or praying with...
0:27.5	Pray for Amber Mithunder. It may be wrong. This is the long awaited predator
0:31.1	Roed to British and crossover. That's it. And we only have the director of the original
0:35.5	film and also one of the better Christmas movies, John McTernan, during his talk about his
0:40.7	stellar career, as well as the usual movie news, nonsense and reviews on the only movie
0:45.2	podcast that is currently planning a heist of the Warner Brothers Vault. Hello, pod. I'm
0:50.0	Helen O'Harratt and welcome to the Empire podcast. Our beloved leader, the great powerful
0:54.2	Chris, is off on a mysterious voyage this week, but fear not because I'm still joined by
1:00.1	two colleagues of such lethal cunning that they are classified as weapons that you were
1:04.1	not allowed to bring on planes. That's true. First up is our very sweetest serial killer,
1:09.7	Ben, the Corinthian Travis. How you doing? Hello, I'm good. I'm good. I'm going on a flight
1:15.2	next week. So I'm going to have to sort out my weapon situation. Yeah. Well, as a serial
1:19.4	killer, you presumably have no compunction and lying on that question. Do you contain
1:23.4	any of the following and that has your face and you're just like, yep, no, none of those.
1:27.0	I do famously contain me. Well, I can't have no thing that your glasses are not opaque.
1:32.6	Therefore, we can see that you have teeth for eyes. It's true. It's my new look for 2022.
1:38.9	You like that? Yes. I can neither confirm nor deny that both Helen and I have been gorge
1:44.5	ing on Sandman episodes past week, formal on that list to the pilot TV podcast available
1:49.0	on Monday. I was going to say that I was going to do that. I will get to that, Helen,
1:53.6	because you're on the pilot TV podcast this week. So yeah. So you have to. But yes, I was
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