#601 — Blitz Bazawule, Paul Giamatti & Alexander Payne, Andrew Scott & Paul Mescal

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

After last week's triumphant live show to mark episode 600, the Empire Podcast team — Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Amon Warmann — return to the safety of the podbooth this week to kick off the road to 700... but we're not exactly skimping on the guests. First, Blitz Bazawule, director of The Colour Purple, tells Helen all about how he tackled the big-screen version of the musical based on the Alice Walker book. Then, Chris has an audience with The Holdovers director Alexander Payne, and his Oscar-nominated star, Paul Giamatti, and they wind up talking about horror films. And finally, Alex Godfrey sits down with All Of Us Strangers stars, Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, for a reflective chat about Andrew Haigh's wonderful new film. Either side of all of those, the podteam right some Oscars wrongs in the Listeners' Question section (although they wish it to be known that they are planning no heists), discuss more Oscars stuff in the wake of this week's nominations announcement, the revelation of the book that will form Reacher season 3, and more in a bumper News section, and then review All Of Us Strangers, The Colour Purple, and Jackdaw. Enjoy. (Timestamps to come... maybe! Sorry it's late!)

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0:00.0	The Empire, On the Empire Podcast, this week we have a veritable Blitz of amazing all-star guests, including
0:20.5	Blitz Bazawoulay, the Director of the Color Purple,
0:24.0	Plus, we say to the stars of all of us strangers Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal,
0:29.4	all of us friends?
0:31.4	And we're joined by Alexander Payne director of the holdovers and his Oscar
0:36.8	nominated star Paul Giamari. Very exciting.
0:43.0	All that plus usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that also was overlooked at this year's
0:48.8	Oscars and you don't hear Hillary Clinton banging on about that, do you?
0:53.0	Disgraceful, quite frankly, disgraceful.
0:56.0	Anyway, Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt.
0:58.0	Welcome to the Empire Podcast.
0:59.0	We're back in the studio.
1:01.0	Hooray!
1:02.0	We're back in the studio. No, wait.
1:03.0	Is that a hooray thing?
1:04.0	I don't know.
1:05.0	Yeah. I apologize.
1:06.0	For episode six hundred and one after the frankly triumphant evening that was episode 600 on Saturday night at King's Place London
1:16.7	when Tom Hiddleston was there and May and McKenna Bruce was there and Ray Winston was there
1:21.7	Oh it was so good it was so good.
1:24.0	And you can listen to that, by the way, if you want, as a podcast,
1:28.0	or you can still see it, I believe, for a couple more days on the King's Place K player. You can see it in its unedited form by going along and buying yourself a streaming pass. I can thoroughly recommend it not least because the podcast version is in order makes a little bit more sense
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