The Empire Movie Podcast #637 ft. Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips, Kelsey Mann

Love that Joker? In that case, you have come to the appropriate place, of us, as this week’s Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt, our very personal Clown Prince of Crime, dig deep into Joker: Folie À Deux (and pronounce the title roughly ten alternative ways) with its star, Joaquin Phoenix [18:50 – 41:01 approx]. After which, doubling down on the Joker chat we discuss to the music-driven film’s director, Todd Phillips, about taking massive swings along with his DC supervillain sequel [1:02:14 – 1:23:07 approx].

With Helen O’Hara having made herself scarce so she will be able to watch the unique Joker (her favorite movie of all time) a couple of dozen occasions in preparation for the sequel, Chris is joined within the podbooth by his primary man, Bo — sorry, James Dyer — and quantity two man (regular now!), Alex Godfrey, for one more enjoyable episode. Collectively, the intrepid pod squad attempt in earnest to debate horrible movies made by nice administrators, solely to get hung up on one horrible movie specifically (Trace: It stars Stan Collymore, capturing in a really totally different method than soccer followers will probably be accustomed to); talk about the week’s film information, together with the return of Daniel Day-Lewis to appearing, and a bunch of unhappy farewells (and sure, we’ll talk about the lack of the nice Kris Kristofferson on subsequent week’s present); and evaluate the aforementioned Joker sequel, in addition to Sebastian Stan psychological thriller A Totally different Man. And in case you hear all that and nonetheless end up craving extra, then we deliver you a sneak peek at our Inside Out 2 spoiler particular, now that the movie has arrived on Disney+, as our resident Disniversity scholar Ben Travis talks to Kelsey Mann, director of the 12 months’s largest film [1:42:24 – 1:58:17 approx]. As ever, please do get pleasure from.

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