Hello and welcome to another very special Empire podcast. Our guest today in the special

interview podcast is the one and only Danny Boyle, director of France and of course the

man who brought us the Queen jumping out of a helicopter during the Olympic opening ceremony

and of course a hello lot more. We touch on his whole career over the course of his interview

so look forward to tip bits like which country in the world had a lifeless ordinary on its

number one spot in the box office for three whole weeks. Hint, it's not the Netherlands

and why now is the time for Danny to make his train spotting sequel, porno, after all the

easy years interviewing the great man what Ollie Richards and Nick DeSammelon enjoy. Thank you

very much for coming in Danny Boyle pleasure we are here to talk about trance and all the many

many things you've worked on in your career. One of the interesting things I think about trance is

that you started it such a long time ago. This was before you even started work on the Olympic

opening ceremony wasn't it? Yeah we've been working on it for a while actually and originally

so much so originally we were the plan was to shoot it in Manhattan. I've always wanted to

make a film in New York I think most film directors want to try and have a crack at the city and we

were going to have an English girl play the part of the hypnotherapist because we always wanted

her Elizabeth Lam we always wanted her to feel like she was from outside the city where the the

noir city the crime is taking place but then we got the Olympic Games and we decided to switch it

because it can kind of happen in any city really any major city where crime and anonymity is available

and a daily occurrence and so we moved it to London and we then shifted the part of Elizabeth Lam

to an American and that's how we got Rosario Dawson for it and what you get is that you get a kind

of Californian kind of therapy told you know that idea of we cure we taught we cure you know we

can everything's available therapy is available to everyone it's a good thing it's a benign thing

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