Adrian Lester
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494 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Adrian Lester’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And my wife is sat beside me, Lolita is sat beside me while I'm on the phone with Peter and I reassure him, I said, if I can't be on stage, I'll be in the audience.
And I just said, it just came to me, I said, look, you are arguably the most famous, in the English language, the most famous theater director there is.
You are about to direct the most famous play that there is.
The scrutiny that you're gonna be under is palpable.
And I think no one really thinks about that.
They're going to be looking at you going, right, how are you going to tackle this beast of a play?
So you have to get the right person.
You have to be comfortable with the right actor.
And I said, look, if I can't be on stage, I'll be in the audience because whatever you do, it's going to be wonderful.
And he thanked me and we spoke and thanked and so on and said goodbye and hung up.
And I remember my wife said, he's going to call back.
Immediately she just went, he's going to call back.
He's going to give you that part.
And then he called back and offered me the part.
Yeah.
Two days later, he called back and said, right, no more mucking around.
I want you to do it.
But on an extraordinary story.
It's it.
Yeah.
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