The Life Of Chuck/Charles/Charlie (ft. guests Eva Victor; Olivia Colman & Jay Roach; Sir Ben Kingsley)

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down, on Zoom and in person, with a cavalcade of cracking guests. There's Eva Victor, star/writer/director of the excellent Sorry, Baby, who talks about cats, directing themselves, and people who look like yams. [23:05 - 39:05 approx] Then there's Olivia Colman and Jay Roach, star and director of The Roses, the reimagining of the classic comedy, The War Of The Roses, who talk about baseball, guns, and terrible dinner parties. [59:50 - 1:17:03 approx] And, last but not least, Chris genuflects in the general direction of Sir Ben Kingsley, star of The Thursday Murder Club, as they talk about that movie, Sexy Beast, and Trevor Slattery. [1:42:55 - 1:56:29 approx] Either side of those, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara and, after a fashion, Ben Travis for a fun episode in which they discuss the greatest movie Chucks (and variations thereof), run their eyes over the week's movie news (and yes, the reveal of the Star Wars: Starfighter cast came too late, dagnammit), and review Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing, Macon Blair's The Toxic Avenger, The Roses, and The Thursday Murder Club. Enjoy!

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1:06.0	this week. We have two, count them two ruddy British national treasures and two, count them two, directors who are, I'm sure, beloved in their homelands.
1:14.9	We have Olivia Coleman and Jay Roach, star and director of the Roses, Sir Ben Kingsley, star of the Thursday Murder Club, and Ava Victor, star and director of Sorry Baby.
1:25.6	All that plus usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast.
1:28.7	It isn't so much a national treasure, more a national treasure book of secrets.
1:33.2	Hello, Pod.
1:33.8	I'm Chris Hewitt.
1:34.6	Welcome to the Empire podcast.
1:36.0	This week, I'm joined in the pod booth by just one colleague of such lethal cunning.
1:42.3	James Dyer is still not here. He is more jolly now than man,
1:47.1	twisted and evil. I don't even know where he is. It's like, where's Waldo and he with a bald man?
1:51.8	Twisted and evil, but with a pinocallada in his hand. I don't know. Does he like Pinacolada's?
1:57.3	I don't know. Or getting caught in the rain. Does he like making love at midnight?
1:57.3	I certainly cannot answer that question, nor have I any desire to do so. Anyway, Helen O'Hara is my one colleague of such lethal cunning who is here with me in this studio. Hello, Hells Bells. Hello, hello, hi. How were you? Were you here last week? You were? Okay. I was, yeah. Good small time. For once.
1:59.6	For once. You took one week off.
2:17.9	As I intend to. Very, very, very Hello, hi. How were you? You were here last week, you were. I was, yeah. Good small time. For once. For once.
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