The Interviews (ft. Jack Reynor; Seamus McLean Ross & Samuel Bottomley; Kat Coiro & Will Packer)
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's another jam-packed edition of The Interviews this week, folks. First, Chris Hewitt talks fillums, scary and otherwise, with the wonderful Jack Reynor, star of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. [1:35 - 18:44 approx] Then he has a chaotic, recorded-on-iPhone-because-reasons, chat with Seamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley, the stars of James McAvoy's California Schemin' [20:48 - 37:01 approx]; and finally there's a fun chat between Chris and Kat Coiro and Will Packer, director and producer respectively of the frothy rom-com You, Me & Tuscany.[37:59 - 52:47 approx] Enjoy.
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| 1:09.7 | Hello, Paul, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to the latest episode of the interviews, |
| 1:11.7 | the Empire podcast, spin-off, |
| 1:15.8 | which rounds up the cream of our chats with Filmedim's finest. |
| 1:21.4 | Lee Cronin's The Mummy, that is its official name in a very John Carpenter-style flex, |
| 1:26.6 | is the first film from the Irish horror director since he revitalized the Evil Dead franchise with Evil Dead Rise a couple of |
| 1:29.1 | years ago, and now he's hoping to do the same for The Mummy. This isn't the fun, frothy, Fraser and Fice-led |
| 1:36.1 | adventure we've come to associate with the mummy over the past few decades, but a return to the |
| 1:41.7 | character's horror roots. Universal monsters, hammer horror, |
| 1:46.4 | all that jazz, as a family are reunited with their long-lost daughter, Katie, only to find |
| 1:53.4 | that Katie may not be all she seems. And so the scene is set for the kind of gnarly, gory scares that seemed destined to cover bandages in blood. |
| 2:06.0 | Irish actor Jack Rayner stars as the mummy's daddy, Charlie, and I popped on to Zoom just last week to have a gnatter about splatter with him. |
| 2:14.7 | We also talked about working with Natalie Grace, who plays the returned |
| 2:18.1 | to Katie, buried under layers of makeup, Rainer's love of genre, and much, much more. You never |
| 2:25.1 | guess what? Enjoy. Jack, welcome to the Emperor podcast. How are you? Thank you. It's great to be here. |
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