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Mar 2025
1h 45m

Millie Bobby Brown & Chris Pratt, Michae...

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Welcome to episode 659 (yes, we're keeping count) of The Empire Podcast, folks. And it's a belter, as Chris Hewitt sits down on Zoom with The Electric State's Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt to talk about their favourite Russo brother, accents, and which one will attend the parade if/when Liverpool win this year's Premier League title. [23:34 -37:14 approx] Chris also has a fun chat about lie detectors, Benihana, and dinner parties from hell with Black Bag stars Michael Fassbender and Marisa Abela. [59:08 - 1:17:44 approx] And then he's joined in the podbooth by Helen O'Hara and James Dyer for a fun episode in which they answer questions from the Empire Podcast subreddit, dwell on numbers (specifically, four and 12), discuss the week's movie news, including Sadie Sink joining the cast of the latest Spider-Man movie, and review Black Bag, The Electric State, Last Breath, In The Lost Lands, and Opus. Oh, and they talk about Portals, for a change. Enjoy.

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