The Full Monty: An Empire & Pilot TV Podcast Special, In Association With Disney+

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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25 years after it became (for quite a spell) the biggest film of all time at the UK box office, The Full Monty is back with an eight-part limited series, streaming now on Disney+. Writer Simon Beaufoy has reassembled the original cast for a show that goes The Full Monty on the current state of the nation, with Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and chums navigating their way through a series of misadventures that shine a spotlight on everything from the education system to the NHS. In this, the latest collaboration between the Empire Film Podcast and the Pilot TV Podcast, Chris Hewitt sits down with Robert Carlyle and fellow cast members Mark Addy (Dave), Lesley Sharp (Jean), and Steve Huison (Lomper) for candid chats about their return to Sheffield, the show's return, and their relief at being able to keep their clothes on this time. Then, in the podbooth, Chris is joined by Kay Ribeiro and James Dyer to talk about their memories of the original film, the phenomenon it became, and their thoughts about the new series. Oh, and Chris has a meltdown about the existence, or lack thereof, of a certain television commercial... Enjoy.

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0:00.0	I believe in miracles since you came along. Good God. You sexy things. James Dyer and
0:23.6	K. Rebaro. Hi. What a way of introducing this podcast. Hello, Pod. I'm Chris Huett and
0:28.2	welcome to the latest Empire and Pilot TV podcast crossover event in association with our
0:35.2	chums at a Disney plus. And this one is in honor of the return of the full Monty or as someone
0:43.1	who lived in York at the time when the movie came out, always heard it full Monty. That's why
0:48.0	that's why I heard it for years and years, years full Monty. Anyway, the full Monty, the phenomenon
0:54.4	of 1997 that was for a long, long time. The biggest British film of all time at the box office
1:01.4	is back, back, back in limited edition form on Disney plus all the original cast are back Robert
1:06.9	Carlisle, Tom Wilkinson, Margati, Leslie Sharp, Steve Husson, Paul Barber, Hugo Spear,
1:15.0	the guy is all here, but this time they're keeping their clothes on. And before we get in to discuss
1:21.5	the show and the 1997 film and all kinds of shenanigans, let's hear from some members of its cast,
1:29.2	shall we because I had the the great pleasure of speaking to Margati, Leslie Sharp and Steve Husson
1:35.4	together. So Dave, Gene and Lomper. And that was yesterday in London. And in this morning,
1:42.0	I leapt on the Zoom very, very early indeed and spoke to Robert Carlisle, AKA Gaz and what a
1:48.7	pleasure both of those were. First of all, you're going to hear from Margati, Leslie Sharp and
1:53.2	Steve Husson, enjoy. Mark Leslie, Steve, welcome to the Empire podcast. Slash pilot podcasts
1:59.6	across the whole thing. I'm not going to get into it. It's very complicated. Anyway, welcome back
2:03.7	to the full Monty. Thank you very much. Is this a surprise to you? What did you first hear about it?
2:10.4	It was a while ago Simon sent an email saying myself and Alberto Pasolini, who was
2:18.8	executive producer on the movie, Simon wrote it, obviously. We're looking at doing a state of the
2:26.4	nation piece and it seemed to us a sensible way of doing it is to do the eyes of characters that
2:34.1	we met quarter of a century ago. Are you interested? Yes. Because it was, you know, you know that
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