Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal On Hamnet; James Vanderbilt on Nuremberg — An Empire Podcast Interview Special
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Don't worry, folks — the Empire Podteam may be engaged elsewhere today (Friday, January 9), preparing to do the live show at Kings Place, London, that marks our 700th episode. But we'd never let you down, and let a Friday go without a dose of Empire Podcast goodness. Which brings us to this interview special, in which Helen O'Hara sits down on Zoom with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the stars of Chloe Zhao's emotionally devastating drama, Hamnet (in cinemas from today), about the tragedy that befell William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes; and then, as James Vanderbilt's WWII (well, post-WWII) drama, Nuremberg, hits Sky Cinema, we have a chat between Vanderbilt and Chris Hewitt about the former's determination to make the movie, and much, much more. Episode 700 will be in your feeds by the end of the weekend, but we hope this tides you over until then. Enjoy.
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| 1:09.7 | Hello, Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to an Empire podcast, interview special with a difference. It's Friday, |
| 1:12.5 | January 9th, folks, and usually Friday is New Empire Podcast Day. Hooray! But this particular Friday |
| 1:20.3 | is the day when we record the new Empire podcast live at Kings Place London to mark 700 episodes of the show. Blimey. And with that being recorded |
| 1:33.8 | tonight, that means it won't be up until Saturday at the earliest. And so to tide you over until |
| 1:39.9 | then, here are two interviews we did earlier. Today, Jan 9th, as well as marking our 14th anniversary |
| 1:47.1 | as an award-winning podcast, sees the release of Chloe Schawe's Hamnet, a stunning drama that is |
| 1:53.5 | set to be one of the Oscar frontrunners this year. Adapted from the book by Maggie O'Farrell, |
| 1:58.9 | it tells a tale of the marriage between William Shakespeare, |
| 2:01.6 | yes, that William Shakespeare, played by Paul Meskell, and his wife, Agnes, played by Jesse Buckley, |
| 2:07.6 | and what happens to them emotionally, spiritually, artistically, when they are met with unimaginable |
| 2:14.6 | tragedy. Buckley and Meskell, two of Ireland's finest exports are extraordinary |
| 2:21.0 | in this movie and so we jumped at a chance to pair them with another of Ireland's finest exports |
| 2:27.0 | our very own Helen O'Hara just before Christmas. Paul and Jesse were on Zoom for this. They were in Ireland, |
| 2:34.1 | I believe actually, and this |
| 2:35.8 | is a multifaceted chat in which our intrepid trio dig into art, emotion, Shakespeare, |
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