Daniel Mays

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873 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

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Great Company with Jamie Laing · DANIEL MAYS: I've Worked with Hollywood’s Biggest Stars But I Still Sometimes Feel Like an Imposter · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

And I've always been drawn to those type of actors, like the Daniel Day-Lewis's and the, you know,

Denzel Washington's and Gary Oldman's where they're so, their characterizations are so in depth and so varied that they, they're so good at it.

They've just become lead actors.

Well, it's always a toss up for me between the two of those or like, what's my favorite De Niro movie?

Yeah.

Sit down and watch Raging Bull because...

um it's an extraordinary film anyway but when you consider the sort of level of commitment that he's sort of poured into that characterization it's extraordinary because um you know he got super fit he's like a middleweight boxer uh trained with the real jake lamotta who said he could have become a real boxer himself he was that good and then they sort of stopped filming

Um, and he sort of went on a tour around Europe, just eating bread and pasta and, and he just gained all of that weight.

And so, you know, there's no sort of AI or anything like that.

There's no sort of CGI.

And it sort of cuts and all of that muscle's gone and he's just this sort of this slob of a man.

You know, he sort of descends into alcoholism and everything else.

It's an extraordinary sort of performance.

I mean, my three favourite films are Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull and Kneel By Mouth.

I mean...

They're just like, none of those are date movies that way.

But I've always been drawn to that, you know, that darkness in sort of the human psyche.

And there was none better than De Niro to bring those characters to life.

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