The Loquacious Limey

Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman stop the show

While tickets to the show are hotter than the banquet of neon which surrounds their own theater, it seems Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are still attracting the usual dim-bulbs.

The BBC reports the two actors stopped a Broadway preview of the Keith Huff drama, ‘A Steady Rain’ in the midst of a scene because one audience member did not bother to silence their cellphone, and the ringing was audible right through the house.

Secretly-filmed footage, seen here, shows Hugh telling the offender to answer the call and thus give them some peace. “We can wait,” he assures them. “Don’t be embarrassed – just grab it.”

In the play, Australia-born Jackman [who'll be 41 on October 12,] and his co-star, Daniel Craig, 40, play childhood friends who grow up to be Chicago policemen and suffer traumatic life changes after a sequence of awful events.

And the two actors are by no means the first to endure such self-absorbed ignorance; Harry Potter star, Richard Griffiths made headlines in Britain in 2004 when he had an audience member literally thrown out of the National Theatre after their phone repeatedly interrupted Griffiths’ performance in ‘The History Boys.’

Luckily for the perpetrator of this unthinking insult, both Craig and Jackman remained entirely in character during the interruption, and the play continued once silence returned.

The show officially opens this week and runs at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th street until December 6th.