The Not-So-Difficult Second Movie (ft. guests Guy Pearce and Benedict Wong)

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Helen O'Hara slip into the host's chair in Chris Hewitt's absence, and use her endless reservoir of patience to corral James Dyer, Alex Godfrey and Ben Travis in a discussion of the best second movies by notable directors (and yes, we know that we didn't mention [INSERT BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS CHOICE HERE]). That was inspired by the arrival of Weapons, the second film from Zach Cregger, and in the reviews section our quartet lose their minds over that, and also look at Freakier Friday, My Oxford Year, and The Pick-Up. Oh, and they talk about trailers, trailer, and more trailers in the movie news section. Guest-wise, Chris pops up on Zoom to have a lovely natter with Guy Pearce, who shows off his musical prowess, reveals the one accent that eludes him, and talks about brilliant new Australian prison drama, Charles Williams' Inside (which is out on Monday, August 11, on digital platforms); [20:12 - 37:51 approx] and Ben has a lovely spoiler-free chat with Weapons star, and the MCU's secret weapon, Benedict Wong. [1:02:05 - 1:17:58 approx] Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Has the side hustle gone all laid back? Your plan's gone way off track. Or are the orders
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0:14.1	sidetracked. It's time to crack a Costa. Side hustle without the struggle.
0:21.8	Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today.
0:26.5	Crack a Costa.
0:29.7	You can't do much in under five minutes.
0:32.4	Boil an egg.
0:33.5	Sure.
0:34.1	Cook a roast dinner?
0:35.2	No chance.
0:36.4	But comparing car insurance prices with mustard.co.uk?
0:40.0	Easy. See what you could save in just a few minutes.
0:43.7	Click mustard.com.org.
0:46.0	Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:48.7	See website for details. On the Empire podcast this week, we go inside with Guy Pearce,
1:08.7	who's talking about his prison drama, Inside.
1:11.8	And Benedict Wong is going to totally disarm us with all his chat about Zach Craigor's weapons.
1:17.8	Because disarm weapons?
1:19.3	It's good. I like it.
1:20.6	All that and more on the movie podcast that is so excited to see Spider-Man filming in Glasgow in the last couple of weeks. I really hope this
1:29.1	paves the way for a much swarier, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, with a far greater propensity
1:34.3	to head but his foes. Hello, everybody. I'm Helen O'Hara. I am covering this week while Chris is away.
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