The Interviews (ft. James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, Sally Field & Lewis Pullman)
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It's a legend-laden episode of The Interviews this week, folks, as Chris Hewitt sits down in person with James Cameron to talk about his new, unexpected venture as co-director of eye popping 3D concert movie, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard And Soft — The Tour Live In 3D, and then the great Guillermo del Toro, with the Mexican director coming to town to receive the BFI Fellowship and launch a season of his films at the BFI Southbank. That is an excerpt from a longer del Toro interview which will be up on its own next week, but this should whet your whistle as they talk about del Toro's British cultural connections, his approach to writing, his penchant for collecting, and more. Finally, Sally Field and Lewis Pullman, the stars of new Netflix movie Remarkably Bright Creatures, Zoom in for a spirited chat with Chris. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Your next holiday starts here with Virgin Atlantic holidays. |
| 0:04.1 | This is your sign. |
| 0:05.3 | To step off your pear into the bluest of blue water in the Maldives. |
| 0:09.9 | Or eat a bagel the size of your face in New York. |
| 0:13.5 | Or dive into a sonote and explore ancient worlds in Mexico. |
| 0:18.2 | The only thing standing between you and this? |
| 0:20.8 | Booking it. |
| 0:21.7 | Book in store over the phone or online at Virgin Atlantic holidays. |
| 0:25.3 | Select routes. |
| 0:26.1 | For T's and Cs, visit Virgin Atlantic.com. |
| 0:28.2 | Until protected. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to another episode of The Interviews, the |
| 0:48.7 | spin-off show The Chronicles Cracking Chats with the cream of the cinematic crop. And this week, we're inundated with legends. |
| 0:57.8 | First up, is the most successful director of all time. |
| 1:00.6 | No, not Brian Levant, the director of Problem Child 2 and Jingle All Away. |
| 1:05.1 | It's James Cameron, director of all three Avatar movies, of course, |
| 1:08.7 | plus Titanic, True Lies, Terminator 1 and 2, |
| 1:12.9 | Aliens, our current cover movie, and The Abyss. Not a bad little lot, that. He's directed |
| 1:18.6 | also some documentaries in this time, but he's never ventured as far outside his comfort zone |
| 1:23.8 | as he has with his latest movie, Billy Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft, The Tour, |
| 1:29.5 | live in 3D, which is a concert movie, and you'll never guess who the subject is. |
| 1:35.6 | In fact, Billy Elish isn't just the subject, but the film's co-director, and it is a mesmerizing |
| 1:41.6 | audiovisual depiction of her gigs at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester last year, |
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