David Oyelowo

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406 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 24 May

David Oyelowo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend · David Oyelowo Returns · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

And so it's the Everest for actors.

And so when you have that, and then you combine it with an audience.

And what I mean by celestial is that there is this vibration where they start telling you if, and you must have this as a comedian, they start telling you if you're telling the truth.

And the moment there is fracture in that, you feel it instantaneously.

Yeah.

And if you do that night after night after night after night, it becomes muscle memory.

It's why anyone's favorite actors have probably at some point been on the stage.

I truly believe that because you

you have had the opportunity to be around the truth enough that that is now, as I say, muscle memory that becomes applicable to film work where everything is artifice.

You know, it's a room like this with contraptions like this, and you're supposed to be in love with someone you met that morning, and it is an exercise in artifice.

But if you know what it feels like to tell the truth under those circumstances you're describing...

And funny.

Very, very funny.

But what was so surprising about her is she said, I can't bear to watch myself.

Yeah, she's one of those actors.

You couldn't bear to watch her.

But the thing that was really surprising is she said, I learn my lines and I try to forget them.

So that I am completely fresh and present in the scene.

And I thought, how do you trick yourself into like, and I was in a scene with her and I saw this thing that is happening between you and I right now.

Yeah.

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