Kenny Dalglish & Asif Kapadia on Kenny Dalglish: An Empire Podcast Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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If you can hear a high-pitched squealing noise in the background of our latest interview special, that's just Chris Hewitt vibrating with excitement. For this podcast puts him in the room with one of his all-time heroes, Liverpool FC icon Kenny Dalglish, who is the eponymous subject of Asif Kapadia's latest documentary, which is out today (October 29) and tomorrow (October 30) in cinemas across the UK, before moving to Prime Video from November 4. In this indepth interview with Dalglish and Kapadia (making a welcome return to the pod), the trio discuss how the documentary came about, Kapadia's aims and creative decisions, Kenny's goals (and goals) and, in the last ten minutes or so, the Hillsborough Disaster, its depiction in the film, and its impact on Dalglish. It's a frank and fascinating chat, and one that we'd recommend even if you're not a Liverpool fan. Enjoy.

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1:10.1	Hello, Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to a very special Empire podcast,
1:12.1	interview special.
1:18.0	Kenny Dalglish is the name of the latest documentary from Asaf Gapadia, the British filmmaker who has become one of the masters of the modern doc with films like Senna, Amy and Diego Maradonna.
1:24.6	And Kenny Dalglish is the name of this movie's subject. If you're unfamiliar, Dalglish
1:30.3	is one of the greatest footballers of all time, quite frankly, a kid from Glasgow who grew up to become an icon for the green and white half of that city, Celtic, and then moved south of the border in 1977 to Liverpool. And there he has stayed to this day carving out a wildly successful career
1:46.0	at Anfield as was a player and then improbably as player manager and then manager.
1:52.2	Not only did he win the previously elusive double of league championship and FA Cup in his first
1:56.5	season as manager of Liverpool in 1986, He scored the goal that won Liverpool
2:00.8	elite title at Chelsea's Ground, Stanford Bridge, real Roy of the Rovers stuff.
2:06.7	If you're a regular listener to the Empire podcast, you will know that I'm a huge Liverpool
2:09.9	fan, as is Capadia, and Kenny Dalglish, or King Kenny, as he is affectionately known,
2:16.4	means a great deal to me. And so I was absolutely
2:21.1	delighted over the moon, you might even say, to get to the invite to talk to him and Asif together
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