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The Empire Film Podcast

#573 β€” Simon Pegg & Rebecca Ferguson

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Light the fuse! This week sees the long-long-long-long-awaited release of Mission: Impossible β€” Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie's epic latest addition to the action franchise, and Chris Hewitt chats to two of the IMF's finest, Simon 'Benji Dunn' Pegg and Rebecca 'Ilsa Faust' Ferguson, in a fun interview that touches upon how they coped with the film's incredibly long shoot. Then, with Chris off somewhere editing the first part of our Mission spoiler special chat with Christopher McQuarrie, Helen O'Hara hosts, welcoming James Dyer and Ben Travis into the podbooth to talk about multi-hyphenates, the actors' strike, a whole bunch of trailers, and Taylor Swift tickets. And they review Dead Reckoning Part One, Insidious: The Red Door, Birdbox: Barcelona, The Out-Laws, and more. It's a slam bam thank you ma'am episode. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

On the M-PART Podcast this week, we rubbed the rabbit's foot and what do you know?

0:19.8

Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson stripped off their masks and appeared out of nowhere

0:23.7

to talk mission-colon-impossible-dead-recking-coma-part-one.

0:29.2

All that and more on the M-PART Podcast that would join the Ampterpa in starving writers

0:34.7

and now actors into submission except that even giggling idiots like us realize that

0:39.2

that's a terrible strategy to announce to the world.

0:42.5

Hello, Pod, I'm Helen and I'm covering today from my colleague, Chris Euit, who can't

0:46.4

be here due to not wanting to be.

0:49.4

He for some reason wanted to be with visiting family and friends.

0:52.2

So...

0:53.2

How day.

0:54.2

Bit rude.

0:55.2

Absolutely how day.

0:56.2

I heard he was on strike.

1:00.3

His sag after a credential came through and he is now even now as we speak, being a twat

1:04.4

on a picket line.

1:05.5

That would make sense given his massive role in hostile to.

1:08.7

That's true.

1:09.7

Anyway, fear not because I'm obviously, as you've heard, joined by two colleagues of such

1:14.1

lethal cunning, with me today is a man who knows more about Disney than even Walt's severed

1:18.6

head could dream of.

1:20.2

It's Ben Travis, how you doing?

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