#611 — Jordan Peele, Rufus Sewell & Philip Martin, Nell Tiger Free & Bill Nighy

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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This week's Empire Podcast has more guests than the Overlook Hotel, all chatting to Chris Hewitt about their new movies. First, producer Jordan Peele tells Chris why he was so taken by Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man, that he came on board to help it get a theatrical release. Plus, they also talk why Peele is no longer acting. [15:40 - 30:56 approx] Then, Rufus Sewell — who plays Prince Andrew in Scoop, a film based on the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis — and director Philip Martin talk about the task of playing one of the most famous men on the planet. [44:28 - 59:38 approx] And finally, while The First Omen — the prequel to The Omen, which shall henceforth be known as The Second Omen — is a terrifying tour de force, Chris' interview with its stars, Nell Tiger Free and Bill Nighy, is anything but as they talk about being dressed by the Vatican, being hit by lightning, and decapitations. [1:19:23 - 1:37:04 approx] Either side of all of those, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara and, making a rare appearance on the podcast, Empire contributor Neil Alcock, who talks about his new Alfred Hitchcock book, Hitchology, which is out now. The trio also discuss which British sitcom stars should have made it on the big screen, tackle the week's movie news (in which Neil is Galactusplained to by Chris), and review The First Omen, Monkey Man, and Scoop. It's all for you, Empire Podcast listeners! Enjoy.

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0:00.0	The Empire Podcast On the end of our podcast this week we have another hat trick of sensational guests, well five guests actually, but who's counting?
0:21.0	We have Jordan Peel, producer of Dev Patel's thumping action movie, Monkey Man.
0:27.0	Then there's Rufus Sewell and Philip Martin, star and director of Scoop. And finally, Domino's,
0:35.0	It's Bill Nai and Nell Tiger Free,
0:38.0	Stars of the First Omen,
0:40.0	which is not to be confused with the First Omen, which is now the second omen, but is still technically
0:46.7	the first omen, which makes the first omen actually the fourth omen or fifth omen depending on your stance on the
0:54.0	omen four oh okay and the remake so technically is it the fifth omen or the
1:00.1	sixth oh no one knows no one knows anyway all that plus usual news and nonsense on the movie
1:05.0	podcast, his mother was a jackal. Ah, it's a lovely woman. I didn't know that about you.
1:10.1	Yeah, lovely, lovely woman. Always had, always a time and a cup of tea for everybody.
1:15.2	But savage people now and again, but you know, hey ho, it is what it is.
1:27.0	Hello, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the Emperor Podcast. We are fresh from our triumphant tour we had a ton of fun we had a wonderful final show last Thursday night in Salford didn't
1:31.4	we Geek Queen Helen O'Hara.
1:34.0	It's me, yes, it was lovely.
1:36.8	It was great to go up to Manchester slash Salford.
1:39.3	And in fact, both.
1:40.5	We genuinely went and visited both.
1:42.3	We did. We did.
1:43.4	I had a lovely time and I saw some friends who live up there and the audiences were again delightful.
1:48.3	I have to say, I don't know where the rest of you are hiding, but the people who have come
1:51.8	out to see us have all been completely wonderful.
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