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The Empire Film Podcast

The Ballad Of Roger Legend (ft. guests Rachel McAdams & Dylan O'Brien)

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down for a delightfully dotty chat with Send Help stars, Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, who talk about being directed by Sam Raimi with a paper bag over his head, pretending to know how to play golf, and delivering the greatest line reading of all time. There are no spoilers here, but maybe wait until you've seen Send Help before listening. Either side of that, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Amon Warmann as they use Steven Spielberg's elevation to EGOT status to Mount Rushmore the greatest EGOTs of them all. They also bid a sad farewell to Catherine O'Hara and pore over the pictures of Sam Mendes' Beatles in the news section, while a packed reviews section sees them run their collective critical eye over Send Help, Riz Ahmed's Hamlet, My Father's Shadow, The Chronology Of Water, another Dylan O'Brien movie in Twinless, and 100 Nights Of Hero. Oh, and James may have got a new nickname at last. Enjoy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.3

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0:20.5

What's on TV? The answer is a lot. There's never been more choice ever what to put on the box with an abundance of great new shows, but you can miss them all if you don't know where to look. And that's where the pilot TV podcast comes in, your essential guide to every show that matters. Each week, we sift through the very best in prestige TV to help you decide

0:37.7

what's worth spending your time on and what isn't. So join me, James Dyer, as well as venerable

0:42.0

TV critics Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro, and let us help take the stress out of your downtime.

0:47.1

The Pilot TV podcast, because you can't watch everything. We're on our podcast this week.

1:07.0

Somebody send help is the cry of Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien

1:11.0

as they talk to some deranged Sam Ramey-loving lunatic about their new movie,

1:15.9

send help. All that plus usual news and nonsense.

1:18.9

On the movie podcast, it is gutted and blowing the audition for S&L UK.

1:24.0

How hard is it to say, live from London, it's Saturday night?

1:28.9

Turns out, fairy.

2:00.9

Anyway, hello pod. I'm Chris Hewitt. Welcome to the Emperor podcast. This week, I'm joined in the pod with my three, three colleagues of such lethal cunning, all of whom have wonderful nicknames. There is, of course, geek queen, Helen O'Hara. Hello. Hello. How are you? I'm good. S&L UK shot near me recently. Did it? Yeah, I don't know if it's like a title sequence or if they're doing a few pre-planned bits, but they were on Deppford High Street. That's exciting news. So the story goes anyway. Blimey. All right, Helen has her finger on the pulse, as you would expect, of a geek queen.

2:05.1

Who else be joined by?

2:06.0

We're joined by Amon.

2:07.7

Make love not warman.

2:10.7

Hello.

2:13.3

I'm good.

2:14.1

I have never bespoke that nickname on you.

2:18.2

I was wondering what you're going to go with me. My official nickname is Amonimus. That's kind of the monocat. I pursue the nicknames around here, my friend. You don't get to choose your own. I've learned this to my peril. No, that's not how this works. But Amonimus is good, yeah. But yeah, has anyone ever made a play on the Make Love Not War?

2:37.4

No?

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