Daniel Mays
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873 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jun
Daniel Mays’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'd never seen anything like it.
I'd never been in that sea of people like that.
And sort of scratching my head thinking, all of these people have congregated in this one stadium for this one person.
Then he came out and was just, like, breathtaking.
Do you still remember it now?
Oh, my God.
It was... Yeah, it was like...
The world stopped for me, you know, but it wasn't, it was, it was the music, but it was, um, it was the dance.
It was the way that he moved.
So that became my like party piece.
That was like, I locked myself in the, in my room and I got the hat and the glove and, and just perfected all the moves.
So every school disco I went to, if Billie Jean came on or something like the way you make me feel, it was like all the kids used to go.
daddy daddy and they still form a circle I don't have the hat no no let's move the table out of the way I still do it at weddings you know what I mean surely we can see a little surely we can see a little bit no no I've got trouble with my hamstrings lately you know really but yeah so that was like that was where it all started that led to sort of stage score and then
uh, on to Rada when I just wanted to be a serious actor sort of, but yeah.
No, I got, I mean, I've got, you know, um, around about 16, 17.
And, um, then I started just getting into like independent American movies.
And I was watching people like De Niro and Pacino and Gene Hackman and all that.
Like, and you suddenly go,
Hackman.
You just sort of go, uh, I recognize very early on that, you know, a dancer's life, a dancer's shelf life, for instance, is a bit like a footballer.
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