Hello pod, this is Chris Hewitt and welcome to a very very special Empire Podcast.

We had the great Taren Stamp in the pod booth recently to talk about his magnificent

and storied career from far from the Madding crowd to the collector to of course General

Sold in Superman and Superman too. Now we brought you about 20 minutes of it in the Empire

Podcast. So we decided to bring you the full unexplicated 50 minute version. It is fantastic. Enjoy.

Absolutely. Hello Taren Stamp. How are you? Good morning guys. How's it going?

So far so good. Well, you're a best not to say that. This is the center of the universe, is it?

Absolutely right now. This is Empire where it all happens. This is where it all happens.

So you've just been doing some ADR? Yeah, you know, I had to fly in this morning to do

they we always forget about ADR, you know, and I wasn't annoyed but I always say to the

sound man on the set, look, if it's not perfect, tell me and I do one now, you know. Yeah.

But there's always ADR. So I just completed it and it wasn't too bad because it wasn't like

lip sync or anything. It was like off lines and phone lines and stuff. I didn't get

see any of the movie but of course the director's really happy. Okay. They've sold it to Harvey.

This is a song from Marion. Yep. Okay. And Harvey's very excited about it. I don't know if that's

good or bad. Well, Harvey being excited about a film usually means he'll be walking up the red

carpet at the Oscars at some point next year. That would be nice. That would be a long time with

that drink. It would be if you get nominated next year for example, it would be what 51 years, 50

years? Well, it's 61 I think was my first and only nomination. So that's one. Yeah, that's

52 years. I say 52 years. Yeah. I'm not going to help you later. That was your first role, Billy

Bud. It was. And you were up. That was the year of Lawrence for A.B. It wasn't it. So

yeah. I think you're up against Teddy Savales and Omar Sharif. Yeah. What was that light?

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