#592 — Jon Batiste & Matthew Heineman, Joaquin Phoenix & Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Lee
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
It's another jam-packed episode of the Empire Podcast this week, folks. First, Chris Hewitt sits down on Zoom with ace composer and musician, Jon Batiste, and Matthew Heineman, about their new documentary, American Symphony; then he battles an uncooperative microphone stand and emerges with an enormously fun interview with Napoleon stars, Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby; and lastly two walking Disney encyclopaedias meet, as our Ben Travis sits down with Jennifer Lee, the writer of this week's Wish and Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. On either side of all of those is a fun episode in which Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara and James Dyer to discuss the actor whose back catalogue they would choose to watch for the rest of their lives; natter about the week's movie news; and review Napoleon, Bradley Cooper's Maestro, George C. Wolfe's Rustin, and Wish. And yes, Chris does know he misquoted Dodgeball. First the Attack of the Clones review, now this: Film Twitter will find his resignation on their desk first thing tomorrow. As for this episode: enjoy.
RUNNING ORDER (all timings approx.)
INTRO/LISTENERS QUESTION: 0:00.00 - 20:13.00
JON BATISTE
MOVIE NEWS: 38:33.00 - 1:01:14.00
JOAQUIN PHOENIX & VANESSA KIRBY
REVIEWS: 1:19:03.00 - 1:43:45.00
JENNIFER LEE & OUTRO
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Empire Podcast this week, we prove that wishes do come true because I wish we had |
| 0:20.4 | Jennifer Lee, the writer of Wish on the podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | Bring! |
| 0:25.6 | I wish we had John Batise, the star and subject of new documentary American symphony |
| 0:31.1 | and his director Matthew Heineman on the podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | Brring! And I wish that we had Wackin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, |
| 0:40.4 | the stars of Ridley Scott Napoleon on the Empire Podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | Bering! Wow, wishes do come true. |
| 0:48.8 | Why a wish is being granted, or I can only assume is a 1970's telephone. |
| 0:53.0 | Bering! |
| 0:54.0 | All that, plus usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that has just one more wish. |
| 1:00.0 | That's see if it comes true. |
| 1:02.0 | No James Diarist. That's see if it comes true. |
| 1:05.5 | No, James Dyer is still here. Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt. |
| 1:07.1 | Welcome to the Empire Podcast. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm in the studio and I'm joined by two colleagues of such lethal cutting |
| 1:11.5 | who have braved both London transport and death to come here. |
| 1:16.0 | Helen O'Hara, our Geek Queen is here despite being I think now legally dead is not right Helen. |
| 1:20.0 | Legally dead yeah. Legally dead. |
| 1:22.0 | I believe I've literally pulled my neck from coughing too much so now I have to turn my entire body to look around like Michael Keaton's Batman. |
| 1:31.0 | Wow, I'm trying to lean into it, I've already got the gravely voice. |
| 1:34.4 | You do, that's a very gravely and I would say sexy, but it, |
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