Hello pod, I'm Chris Heward, welcome to a very special edition of the Empire podcast dedicated

to Crimson Peak and an interview with its director, the fantastic Mexican filmmaker,

Guillermo del Toro, who came into London recently to talk about Crimson Peak and he sat down

with me for a good old chunk of time we talked about that film and a great many other things

indeed it's a very funny and enlightening interview I hope you enjoy. We're delighted to be joined

on the Empire podcast by the great Guillermo del Toro. How are you sir? Excellent, excellent,

good to see you. Same here man. We were just talking a second ago about the brilliant Crimson Peak.

You saying it's one of your three favorite films? Yeah, of yours. Yeah, I mean my favorite is

depending on the week. The order is devils backbone, pans armor and then this one and they are

kind of related to each other in very strange ways and they are in equally strange ways very

personal very sort of autobiographical in which way is this one autobiographical? Well many many many

of them are hidden thank God and they haven't discovered the corpses in my basement but for example

little silly things the opening, a parishion with the girl that happened to my mother that's a story

she used to tell us when we were kids that the night after the funeral of her grandmother her grandmother

came and sat on her bed and she heard the bed springs creaking and she could smell her perfume and

hear the fabric of her dress and she touched her in the shoulder. We were obviously very impressed by

that tale. I mean I think the movie talks about what I think about love which is I think it's a very

imperfect proposition and it should be you know it's what makes us human and so forth. I love the

portrait of the mother in the wall which makes me crack up every time. It's actually very similar to

my grandmother with whom I grew up and her cameo the little cameo jewel that you wore. It's the

real cameo from my grandmother that Lucille wares and that was worn by Marissa Paredes in Devil's Bagwong

and that was worn by my mother in super-ate short idea that was worn by an actress in a 16-way

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