then, i'm hearing danny boyle going down to the other end of the corridor. a professional, i've never done this before!" and the place is rocking. meantime, carol hemming, who i'm working with, is trying to stick two isambard kingdom brunel sideburns on the side of my face and everything is moving and i'm starting to shake, i'm so nervous. so, then, on the way down to the sort of entrance, i had to go down because i needed to calm my nerves. it was about half an hour when they emptied — just before people started coming in and i went out to one of the auditoriums, so i'm looking at an empty stadium, more or less, and i do my lines for the last time, just on my own, very quietly, and i'd just finished, and from behind me, i hear the applause from two hands and its two girls from the cleaning crew who were behind me. they said, "very nice, son. you'll be all right." and that was an amazing personal moment. then, i go back up, we get changed, we come down, it felt as though i shook hands with everybody in england on the way down, and they all shook hands with e