On the Empire Podcast this week, we welcome the deep, mellifluous, classically-trained tones of Jeremy Irons. In the space of a month, we’re being treated to three new Irons roles: as Anthony Royal in Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise; as the real-life mathematician G.H. Hardy in The Man Who Knew Infinity; and as Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Unlike certain breakfast shows, he won’t be scandalising the nation by dropping any F-bombs here. (Though, unlike certain breakfast shows, he’d be very welcome to.)
Plus! We ponder which directors have had an unbroken run of five great movies; debate the height of the new Han Solo actor; and in light of the sugar tax news, fret over the price of the fizzy drinks in the machine by the pod booth.
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