The Life Of Custard (ft. guests Joaquin Phoenix; Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor; Samara Weaving & Karl Glusman)

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

In one of those bumper-sized guest-filled jamborees in which we specialise, this week's Empire Podcast sees John Nugent sit down on Zoom to interview Eddington star, Joaquin Phoenix... or does Joaquin Phoenix interview John Nugent? All will be revealed. [18:52 - 35:59 approx] Elsewhere, Chris Hewitt has a lovely chat about The Life of Chuck with co-stars Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor, in which they try desperately not to give anything away about Mike Flanagan's Stephen King adaptation; [59:45 - 1:18:06 approx] and he also has a chaotic Zoom with the stars of the excellent Eenie Meanie, Samara Weaving and Karl Glusman. [1:45:11 - 1:56:04 approx] Either side of that little lot, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara and Harry Stainer to talk about the movies that bring them joy in times of darkness; discuss the week's movie news, in which they say a sad but fond farewell to the legendary Terence Stamp; and review Eddington, The Life Of Chuck, Eenie Meanie, and Sorry, Baby. Oh, and Harry comes up with a novel use for custard. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	You can't do much in under five minutes.
0:02.3	Boil an egg.
0:03.4	Sure.
0:04.0	Cook a roast dinner?
0:05.2	No chance.
0:06.3	But comparing car insurance prices with mustard.co.uk.
0:09.9	Easy.
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0:13.6	Click mustard.com.
0:15.9	Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:18.6	See website for details.
0:19.7	The website for details.
0:42.6	On the podcast this week, it's guests galore as Tom Hiddleston and Chubitel Edgiofor tell us all about the life of Chuck.
0:49.3	And Wacking Phoenix talks Eddington, which, as it turns out, isn't a biopic of the star of yes, Prime Minister.
1:00.4	And we play a game of chat catch because you can't spell catch without chat, as it turns out, with any, meany stars, Samara Weaving and Carl Glussman.
1:08.1	All that plus usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that is addicted once again to movie quizzes on Sporkel.
1:27.9	Please, please help me. It is a genuine sickness. Hello, Pod. I'm Chris Hewitt. Welcome to the Empire podcast. This week, I'm joined in the pod booth by two colleagues of such lethal cunning. Helen O'Hara is here. Hello, I'm back back Hello, how are you? You're back.
1:29.1	You weren't here last week?
1:29.6	I wasn't.
1:24.0	We replaced you in the aggregate. I heard. With another woman and another bald man. We're all the same. Yes, not to say that, of course, you are a bald man. You are not a bald man. But James is bald man. James Dyer is a bald man. He wasn't here.
1:25.5	He is not here this week.
1:27.2	He wasn't here last week either.
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