#598 — Joel Edgerton, JA Bayona
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year! With just two shows until 600, The Empire podcast crashes back into your feeds this week. Well, two thirds of it does because Chris is on holiday, leaving Helen and James to hold down the fort. And by that we mean have a cosy fireside discussion about all the fantasy books they devoured over Christmas, along with assorted stories of New Year's Eve shenanigans.
But none of that matters because we have the one and only JA Bayona on this week's show, the director stopping by to talk about his brilliant (and very likely to be Oscar-winning) film, Society Of The Snow. Plus Joel Edgerton joins us to explain what happens when the cast is crew in The Boys In The Boat.
Plus Helen and James pull their reviewing caps on and watch Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, Blumhouse's haunted swimming pool feature Night Swim, and kinder transport drama One Life.
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| 0:00.0 | on the Empire podcast this week we enjoy a no snow with J. A Bayona, |
| 0:18.8 | director of Society of the Snow and get into a boat full of boys with Joel Edgerton. |
| 0:24.6 | Steady. Star of the Boys in the Boat. |
| 0:27.2 | All this and more on the movie podcast that is still writing the wrong year on every |
| 0:31.5 | form available probably continue to do so for at least |
| 0:34.5 | several weeks to come. Hello pod I'm Helen O'Hara and happy new year the eagle-eared |
| 0:40.8 | among you may have noticed that I am not Chris Hewitt, who I'm afraid is having something called a desperately needed break. |
| 0:47.5 | Leave me alone, you hyenas haven't I done enough? |
| 0:50.5 | But fear not, because I am still joined by one colleague of such lethal cunning. |
| 0:55.0 | It's the grumpiest man in TV or film unless maybe he's turned over a brand new leaf for 2024. |
| 1:02.0 | Am I in a 24 state of mind? |
| 1:05.0 | I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, wow, James Steyer. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, I'm not updating my calendars, I'm staying there forever. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:13.2 | Is this going to be an exciting brand new year? Do I have any resolutions? |
| 1:17.2 | Possibly and well no, you know we'll see. My gym is trying to force me to have a resolution. They've brought in something called an accountability program. |
| 1:27.6 | Jesus. And they're going to be like keeping track of our exercise and trying to push us to do more and they've asked for some of my vital statistics. |
| 1:34.7 | I may give them a small figure of an asterisk character, but that's a really obscure joke. |
| 1:40.6 | I apologize. |
| 1:41.6 | Thank you, thank you. But yeah that's kind of terrifying. I mean I know it's good for me. I know I should embrace it, but also I don't want to. |
| 1:50.0 | Is it like a cat size situation? Do you remember that anthology Stephen King thing from the 80s |
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