Droopy Is Not A Looney Tune Character (ft. special guest, David Lowery)
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
If we told you that this week's episode of the Empire Podcast featured not one but two people banging on about Taylor Swift, odds are you'd reckon one of them was James Dyer. And you'd be wrong. For those people are Ben Travis and David Lowery, director of the new poptastic psychodrama, Mother Mary. Lowery is this week's guest, and he popped into the podbooth to sit down with Ben to talk all about how Taylor Swift influenced part of his approach to the Anne Hathaway-Michael Coel flick, and much, much more, including an ultra-geeky exchange about Star Wars action figures. [36:32 - 58:21 approx] Either side of that, Helen O'Hara welcomes James Dyer and Amon Warmann into the podbooth as they discuss great movie prison breaks and what makes for a good biopic; the week's movie news (at least, the stuff that broke before the pod was recorded... thanks a bunch, Miami Vice '85 casting news and Clayface trailer!); and review Mother Mary, Charlize Theron-Taron Egerton thriller Apex, and Antoine Fuqua's Michael Jackson biopic, Michael. Enjoy.
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| 0:24.0 | What's on TV? The answer is a lot. There's never been more choice ever what to put on the box with an abundance of great new shows, but you can miss them all if you don't know where to look. And that's where the pilot TV podcast comes in, your essential guide to every show that matters. Each week, we sift through the very best in Prestige TV to help you decide what's worth spending your time on and what isn't. So join me, James Dyer, as well as venerable TV critics, Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro, |
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| 1:12.0 | On the Empire podcast this week, we say a hell merry because David Lowry is joining us to talk about his new fashion meets pop psychodrama, Mother Mary. All this and the usual news, reviews and |
| 1:19.1 | nonsense on the movie podcast that is putting the lime and the coconut and drinking them both together |
| 1:24.1 | because of the Practical Magic 2 trailer. So excited god hello pod i'm helen o'hara |
| 1:30.7 | welcome back to the empire podcast yes your regular host chris hewitt is still cruising through the |
| 1:37.4 | straits of hoomuz as we speak um probably learning how to be a pirate or something useful but |
| 1:43.2 | fear not because I am joined by |
| 1:45.2 | two colleagues of such lethal cunning. First up, we have the Mad Titan himself, the galactic |
| 1:51.5 | menace that is James Dyer. I like it. This is a good leading for me. How are you doing? I'm |
| 1:55.8 | feeling inevitable. Sadly, that's true, yes. |
| 2:06.9 | And finally, a man who has stopped talking about Invincible, a full week after I made the mistake of mentioning it last week. |
| 2:08.3 | It's Amon Warman. How you doing? |
| 2:11.4 | I'm doing okay. I can talk about other things. |
| 2:14.2 | Okay, yep, but no more of that. |
| 2:17.2 | You blamed me last week, and it felt like victim blaming. You did set me up for it, and I knocked it down. I just mentioned the show, and then he went. Yeah, you probably should have seen that coming. Real, in retrospect, yes. But still victim blaming. Yeah, okay. James, have you seen Invincible? Of course I have. It's a thing that looks like a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon. But we're not getting into that right now. How are you both doing? Doing okay. Been doing anything exciting this week? Gods, well, so we should say all three of us are here in the studio. The day we are recording this is a day of tube strikes. |
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