Daniel Mays
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jun
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It's a heavy role.
And because the thing is, I've played nefarious wrong-uns in the past, pretty much at the beginning of my career.
And you always have to try and find some element that's redeeming.
about them there's something even in someone like that there's something likable and i there was literally nothing with this character and so essentially the thing is when you watch the it's like four episodes and every time you see the character on screen he's lying he's not telling the truth and that was really difficult you know it was a challenging headspace to sort of occupy how do you get into that headspace because that's like yeah anyone man that's a lot
Yeah, it was hard because I underestimated it because I thought, you know, I've got like 26 years as a professional actor and it's like another role.
He's just like, I'm just going to get into this role and just do it.
Yeah.
And it was just very isolating because we filmed it down in Cardiff.
So I had a sort of light schedule at the beginning of it.
So I was traveling down to Cardiff doing something unspeakable and then going back.
To my family, which was really disorientating.
And then it got more and more intense with the court case and all the taxi scenes were in the last week.
And then we had to do these extraordinary psychiatrist scenes where when he's in prison, he finds God.
which was basically just a ruse to get parole as quickly as possible.
And so I've got these really lengthy scenes with the psychiatrist where he starts to emote all this emotion and he's so sorry for what he's done, but you know he's lying.
And so I had to sort of lean into my...
Acting training, which is like Stanislavski, where you sort of use, which is called emotional recall, where you think of something in your own life which upsets you, like you've lost a loved one or something's happened.
And I often do that.
If I need to do an emotional scene, I'll listen to some music.
You can see Danny's in the corner of the set somewhere just getting into it.
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