Starting In The Middle (with guests Jesse Armstrong, Tim Key, Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan)

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees the podteam — Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer and Alex Godfrey — get to grips with the definition of in media res, as they discuss some of their favourite films that throw you right into the action. Elsewhere, they talk about the week's movie news, pay tribute to Empire's founding editor Barry McIlheney, who has sadly died at the age of 65, and review The Ballad Of Wallis Island, Karate Kid: Legends, Mountainhead, The Ritual, and The Salt Path. And Chris has a whale of a time talking to this week's guests, Mountainhead writer/director (and Succession creator), Jesse Armstrong, [26:34 - 39:29 approx] and Tom Basden, Tim Key and Carey Mulligan, the stars of the delightful new film, The Ballad Of Wallis Island. [1:01:06 - 1:19:38 approx] Oh, and Alex goes full Rory Bremner too, which is... unexpected. Enjoy.

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0:28.0	Barclays.
0:29.8	Here for every goal.
0:31.6	What is it Mediores or Mediores?
0:35.2	It means basically in the middle of the action, in the middle of the thing.
0:39.6	So it tends to be used when you're just dropped into, you know,
0:41.4	oh no, somebody's hanging off the side of a plane.
0:42.3	That was me.
0:44.0	How did I get into that situation?
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0:46.9	That's me.
0:47.9	Chris Hewitt.
0:49.8	How did they get into that situation?
0:52.0	Let's find out, shall we?
1:09.2	Our podcast this week, we rack up the air miles.
1:13.8	First, we go to Mountain Head with that film's writer-director, Jesse Armstrong.
1:18.8	Then, we go to Wallace Island to talk with the Ballad of Wallace Island cast members,
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