Daniel Mays

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873 appearances 1 recordings 1 series 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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Yeah.

No, you're not going to get me doing a Tom Hiddleston here.

Tom Hiddleston actually did it in front of him on Graham Norton, right?

And I mean, I don't mean there's anyone that has that.

I think he has the biggest range, right?

You consider him like in last of the Mohicans and then you see him as Abraham Lincoln.

It's like, I tell you a story about Daniel Day Lewis.

I was doing a play at the Royal court and it was a play called motor town and it was written for me.

It was written by a wonderful playwright called Simon Stevens.

Mm hmm.

And it was all about a soldier coming back from Basra and reintegrating himself into Dagenham in Essex.

Hence why it's called Motor Town because it's Dagenham Motors there.

Anyway, it was like the best role I'd ever been given on stage.

I never left the stage.

And there was like eight other actors that come in and do their scenes with me.

It was just an extraordinary gift of a part.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, there was no set on stage.

It was just a bank of lights.

And once you were in the light, you were in character.

And once you're out the light, you can come out of character like that.

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