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

Yeah, which is hilarious.

I think they were filming Marathon Man, weren't they?

Yeah.

And Dustin Hoffman sort of runs, he's decided to do like five laps of the park because the scene he had to be hot and sweaty and out of breath and things like that.

And so he got to about lap three and Olivier goes, why don't you try acting, dear boy?

and it's like but you know Dustin had to do what he had to do to get into it you know other actors will go right just put the sweat on me I'll jump up and down for like two seconds and then go it's so where do you where do you lie um

I think I was much more like that when I was a younger actor.

I think I've got more sort of technique and know-how now just to sort of turn it off and on, you know.

But I did a lot of work with Mike Lee when I was younger.

I did two Mike Lee movies.

And the thing about when you work with someone like Mike is he's very clear about there's the actor and there's the character.

And so you have to keep those two things separate.

And then you've got your sort of directors and Tannoy sort of going all the time when you're playing the role.

You can't, you know what I mean?

I've done scenes, I remember doing a scene with someone once and this guy, he shall remain nameless, but it was like a fight scene type thing.

Who was it?

I can't remember.

And I remember he slapped me around the face like that, like proper slapped me on take one.

And I was just like...

was that and he went i was a bit too hard i went yeah because like we're going to be doing like another seven eight takes of this and you are you planning on hitting me that hard like for eight takes i said i'm not going to be able to hear out my ear do you know what i mean it was sort of because that's the the thing of like you've got a you've got to have technique you've got to be able to say if you're doing like a play you're doing eight performances a week do you know what i mean

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