Hello and welcome to another very special Empire interview podcast this time in honor of

Elysium, which is Neil Blomkamp's latest sci-fi action movie, following up from District

9, where in the future a man named Max, Matt Damon gets some severe radiation poisoning

and in order to, well, avoid death, has to go up to the flying space doughnuts known as

Elysium, where the elitist, super rich, super powerful live, as represented by Jodie Foster,

who was their defence secretary. On her side, stopping Max from getting up to the

super space station where everyone can be healed, is Chalto Coppley, who plays an undercover

operative down on earth, and he is a piece of work. Both Chalto Coppley and Neil Blomkamp

joined us for the special interview podcast, where we spoke about such things as Vickers

of Andamurva, and him trying to get into Charlize Theron's house, as seen on Funny or Die,

as well as the Halo movie, both of their gaming setups generally, South Africans in films,

as well as what it feels like to be one of the most powerful Africans in the world, according

to some pole somewhere. Anyway, they're both on great form, very funny and very geeky,

and you won't want to miss out on this one. So sit back, enjoy. Both myself, Ali Plum,

and my colleague Nick DeSemilin were on interviewing duties this time around, and be sure to come

back on Friday for your regular dose of Empire podcast goodness. Enjoy. So yeah, I was blown

away just by how much South African-ness. It wasn't this film, because you think it's

set in LA, it's set in space, but there's a lot of saffron here. It was. It was cooler

we got to do. It wasn't, because you hadn't really intended him originally to be South African

necessarily, Kruger, and the character that I play. He was just a mercenary. Yeah, he was

just like, he was quite English almost the way that you, in the very first draft that

I read. Yeah, or Australian. Yeah. But it was, it was, it's true. It was, it was only when

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