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

What are you reading at the moment?

We don't want to say what we actually are.

but it's all it's all like it's it's all a question of taste it's all subjective isn't it totally there'll be people that love me as an actor and there'll be people that go I don't really fancy Danny Mays like that I don't think he's particularly good or he's a bit but I don't think anyone actually says that but do you know what I mean though it's sort of like and I don't think you can ever again it's that thing of like staying grounded isn't it and I've always had that discipline that every character you play wipe the slate clean and come at it fresh never rest on your laurels never really never rely on the last performance you've given

That's advice you'd give someone listening now.

Without a doubt.

Yeah.

Always.

Cause try to test yourself all times, you know, cause there was, there's parts that you haven't played yet.

There's parts that the beauty about what I do for a living is it's like, it's so mysterious and endless and you can, hopefully you get better as you get older and it just sort of rolls onto the other job.

And, you know, it was, for me, it was always about, um,

longevity it was all i want to be old and gray one day and look back at a body of work which i'm incredibly proud of you know um that's my goal in life i think along with trying to be a nice husband and a good dad and all that sort of stuff all the other stuff but then i mean all of that life stuff makes you a better actor anyway you know i mean your parents must be so proud

Yeah, I mean, my dad's not one of those guys that says, I'm really proud of you, son.

And, you know, it's sort of, I think they are, but I guess particularly, I'm much more closer, I'd probably say, to my mum than I am my dad.

But, you know, I know he's proud, but he's just of that generation where he doesn't express that as much.

What's one role you really want?

And then they, there's countless, there's countless auditions where you've gotten, I've nailed that.

I remember going into, uh, um, I remember auditioning for a part and, uh,

It went so well.

The casting director walked me down the corridor to the lift and was like, you know, blowing proverbial smoke up my arse and was like, that was incredible, Danny.

I just didn't think it would be as good as that.

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