Joe Russo At The Sands International Film Festival: An Empire Podcast Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Gray Man — the latest movie from Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of little films like Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Endgame and Welcome To Collinwood — is on the cover of this month's Empire magazine (on sale now, folks, in all good, evil and virtual newsagents), and so we can finally bring you the latest Empire Podcast interview special: a one-hour chat between Joe Russo and our very own Chris Hewitt, recorded a few weeks ago in St. Andrews, Scotland. This is not an interview about The Gray Man. Instead, Joe was in Scotland to promote Sands, the first ever St. Andrews International Film Festival, of which he is a supporter and backer. In this in-depth interview, he tells Chris about his connection to St. Andrews and Scotland, and then goes deep on the early career of the Russo brothers, including stories about their first (and still unreleased) movie, Pieces, their big break into the business, their forays into television, and the circuitous journey that eventually landed them at Marvel Studios, where they made four of the biggest movies of all time in quick succession; success which allowed Joe and Anthony to form their own company, Agbo Studios, which is behind the likes of The Gray Man and Everything Everywhere All At Once. It's a fascinating chat with one of the most powerful and important figures in the business. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to another Empire podcast interview special and this
0:20.0	one is a bit special folks and a little bit interviewee too.
0:24.2	So basically I went to St Andrews in Scotland a few weeks ago and I came away with three things.
0:32.1	First a rekindling of my love of golf.
0:36.1	My hotel was right by the old courses in Andrews, the home of golf and well one thing led
0:42.1	another and pretty soon my wife and I are playing a lot of golf at the weekend.
0:47.8	Secondly a deep and abiding love of tonnocks caramel bars which may be the best thing Scotland
0:55.1	has ever given to the world and they gave us Sean Connery, Kenneth Lleish and teenage
0:59.0	fan club so that's a pretty high bar.
1:02.0	Thirdly and perhaps most importantly I came back with an hour long interview with Joe
1:07.6	Russo.
1:08.7	In fairness that's why I was there to attend the inaugural edition of Sands aka the St Andrews
1:15.3	International Film Festival and talked to Joe Russo one half of the Russo brothers of
1:19.9	course the directors of some of the biggest films of all time.
1:24.0	Joe was not just attending the festival but he was supporting it both financially and
1:29.6	with his presence and so in this interview recorded in a hotel room overlooking what felt
1:35.0	like the whole of the town of St Andrews including the incredible golf courses and the
1:40.2	famous and beautiful West Sands beach where charrots of fire was filmed.
1:45.4	We talked about his reasons for back in the festival but we also talked about how he and
1:49.2	his brother Anthony got their starts in Hollywood and we did a deeper dive into their early
1:53.9	career including their films welcome to Colinwood and you me and to pre and their work in TV
1:59.0	on the likes of rest development and community then we had ever done before on any of our numerous
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