Are We The Baddies? (ft. guests Mahershala Ali & Rupert Friend, David Cronenberg, Gerard Johnstone)

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down for a pre-lunch chat about dinosaurs and sandwiches with Jurassic World Rebirth stars, Mahershala Ali and Rupert Friend, [25:28 - 36:36 approx] while Mike Muncer goes deep with the legendary David Cronenberg, as the Canadian director marks the release of one of his most personal films yet, The Shrouds. [1:02:07 - 1:18:07 approx] Oh, and there's an excerpt from our epic spoiler special chat with M3GAN 2.0 director, Gerard Johnstone (the full thing will be available to spoiler special subscribers next week). [1:44:33 - 1:56:03] Either side of that little lot, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Dan Jolin as they celebrate Independence Day by talking about the most evil British movie villains. Plus, they chat about the week's movie news, including The Running Man and Project Hail Mary trailers (this episode was recorded before the sad news broke of Michael Madsen's death), and review The Shrouds, Jurassic World Rebirth, and Heads Of State. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Has the side hustle gone all laid back?
0:03.2	Your plan's gone way off track.
0:07.0	Or are the orders flowing, but it's hard to keep going?
0:10.8	It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting sidetracked.
0:15.5	It's time to crack a Costa.
0:18.8	Side hustle without the struggle.
0:21.8	Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today.
0:26.5	Crack a Costa.
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0:43.4	price. On sale 3rd of July and price matched in most major UK supermarkets until the 3rd of
0:47.4	August, little.cote UK slash back to school while stocks last. On the Empire podcast this week, we talk sex and death with the stars of Jurassic World Rebirth, Rupert Friend and Mahershla Ali,
1:12.3	and dinosaurs galore with the director of the shrouds, the legendary David Cronerberg.
1:17.4	All that, plus usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that thinks it might have just got those two mixed up.
1:24.0	Do you think David Cronerberg has ever seen Jurassic Park?
1:45.1	Something to explore. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt. Welcome to the Empire podcast this week. I'm joined in the pod booth by three, count them three, colleagues of such lethal cunning. James Dyer, a great big fucking nerb, is here. Hello. Greetings, Chris. Greetings to you, James. How are you? I'm okay. Things are good.
1:47.0	Excellent. Excellent. Good stuff. Who are you?
1:48.8	I'm trying to be positive, Helen.
1:50.1	All right.
1:51.7	Helen O'Hara has spoiled her own introduction already.
1:55.8	She's back.
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