The Evolution Of O'Horror (ft. guests Amanda Seyfried & Mona Fastvold)
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down in a London hotel room with Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold, star and director respectively of the audacious new musical biopic, The Testament Of Ann Lee. It's a conversation that takes in everything from wearing T-shirts with your face on it to the trick of choreographing incredibly complex dance numbers, and is a ton of fun. That starts around 42:18 and finishes around 1:02:50. Elsewhere, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara, James Dyer and, for the first time on the regular pod, Evolution Of Horror host Mike Muncer, as they discuss movie news including the BAFTAs and the latest Toy Story 5 trailer, answer questions on what movie-related thing they'd give up for Lent, the movie juries they'd like to be on (or not), and run their critical eye over Scream 7, The Testament Of Ann Lee, Sirat, and The Bluff. Oh, and Chris finally gets round to explaining how, and why, he nearly stepped on Florence Pugh's dress. Enjoy.
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| 1:07.8 | On the Empire podcast this week, Exhelcior. |
| 1:09.5 | Nuff said, true believers. |
| 1:10.5 | That's right. |
| 1:27.6 | We have the star and director of the Testament of Anne Lee, Amanda Seifred and Mona Fastfold. Sounds a bit like Stanley, James. Come on. Yeah, I was following it at a distance, and then I got it. And I was, oh, yes, I should have found it coming. Hey, true believers. Nuffshed, Spider-Man. Yeah. Okay. |
| 1:28.2 | All that plus usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that didn't finish the story |
| 1:32.4 | of how we nearly stepped on Florence Pugh's dress. |
| 1:36.9 | But we're back and we're going to finish the story. |
| 1:41.4 | Any second now. |
| 1:43.6 | Hello, Pod. I'm Chris Hewitt. Welcome to the Empire podcast this week. I'm in the pod booth |
| 1:47.9 | joined by one, two, three colleagues of such lethal cunning. Helen O'Hara Geek Queen, |
| 1:54.3 | hello. Hello, hello. |
| 1:56.0 | Mike Munser, horror evolver. |
| 1:58.6 | Hello. |
| 1:59.7 | Making his debut on the full Empire podcast after lots of appearances on the Sportive Specials. |
| 2:06.2 | I've gone beyond the velvet rope. |
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