Hello pod Chris here and welcome to this very special edition of the Empire Podcast.

Denzel Washington, the Oscar nominator, star of flight and its director, the great Robert

Samaegas, popped into London recently ahead of this Friday's release.

And Nick the Simlin and I jumped at the chance to sit down with him for almost an hour

and ask him everything we can think of from the difficulties of making one of the best

playing crash sequences in years to the shared love of the Beatles.

They were frank, funny and very engaging on those topics and much much more, so sit back,

relax, stow away your tray table and prepare for 40 minutes of cracking movie chat from

two Oscar winning titans.

We're delighted to be joined in the pod booth by the star of flight, Mr. Denzel Washington,

the Oscar nominator star of flight of course and the director of flight, Mr.

Robert Samaegas.

Welcome, gentlemen.

Thank you.

So I want to start right back at the beginning with flight for you guys.

When and how did the script come to you, Bob, I presume it came to you through Steve

Starkey and Jack Rappkey who had worked with John Gaitons on Real Steel.

Yeah, it did come through, it came to me through those guys, but I don't know exactly how

it got to them.

I don't know if it was John or his agent, I don't know what it was.

I don't know.

And when you read it, you know, you were going to be reading, did you know you were looking

...