It takes a brave person to answer their mobile phone while Wolverine and James Bond are performing.

But that's just what happened in New York recently when a audience member's mobile phone went off in the middle of a performance by Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig.

The two A-List actors were in the middle of a tense dramatic scene in a play called A Steady rain when the phone went off.

Jackman, without missing a beat and in character, pointed to the offender and said "You wanna get that? You wanna get that, grab it I don't care.

"Grab your phone it doesn't matter."

A few seconds later the phone starts to ring again prompting Jackman, still in character to say: "Come on, just turn it off unless you got a better story, you want to get up and tell your story?

Craig then also chimes in with: "Can you get that, whoever it is can you just get it? We can wait just get the phone".

A Steady Rain tells the story of two Chicago policemen whose lives are thrown into turmoil after they mistakenly hand a young boy back to a cannibalistic serial killer. The plot mirrors a real life event involving US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

The footage was captured on camera and leaked to entertainment website TMZ.