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Ralph Fiennes reveals he gets stage fright... when he’s off stage

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Millions of actors get struck with crippling stage fright while waiting in the wings.

Veteran board-treader Ralph Fiennes, on the other hand, has revealed he was hit with the thespians’ curse when he had to perform outside the comforting darkness of a theatre.

The 60-year-old told the latest episode of podcast he struggled while putting on a one-man show in daylight for around 100 fans as part of a series of intimate monologue performances hosted at the home of London’s River Café founder Ruth Rogers.

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