Hello and welcome to a very special Empire podcast. This time around, it's an honor of

much ado about nothing, Joss Whedon's reinterpretation of the classic Shakespeare play for cinema

that he shot in his own house over the course of just 12 days with some of his nearest

and dearest colleagues and friends from both back in the day and right about now.

Who are the people in his troupe are Amy Acker and Alexis Denosov. We had them both in.

You can now listen to the two of them for about 17 and a half minutes chatting away about

their time working with Mr Whedon both on TV and on the film and a whole lot more including

this amazing charade type game which you're going to want to find out more about and maybe

try for yourself. Then after that 17 and a half minutes is up, you've got Mr Whedon himself

for about 20 minutes. He talks about everything from Avengers 2 to Quicksilver to the film itself

and whether he got in contact with the other guy that you may know as a director of much

ado about nothing Sir Kenneth Branagh himself. Anyway, it's all here. You're listening

to a right now. So good for you. So sit back, relax or stand up. It's all up to you and

listen to this special much ado about nothing podcast. Enjoy. We are joined today by Amy Acker

and Alexis Denosov for to talk about much ado about nothing. Hello, hello, how are you?

So this is a film that sprang out of a tradition I guess at Josh Whedon's house of hosting parties

that involve Shakespeare. Yeah, it started back around season 3 of Buffy. I don't want

to say how long ago that is. But Josh noticed there were a few people around that like Shakespeare

and he was passionate about Shakespeare himself and so it's actually something that he had

done as a kid his family would have at his house when he was a kid. So he resurrected

them from his childhood and we would get together very casual on a Sunday. He would dull

out the parts and make some cuts so that we weren't reading all day. And it was just

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