Hugh Jackman proved a showstopper, literally, during a Broadway performance when he addressed an audience member whose mobile phone kept ringing, News.com.au reported this week.

The Australian star features alongside James Bond Daniel Craig in a play called A Steady Rain. An amateur video, featured on TMZ.com, shows the incident in full.

In the middle of a tense dramatic scene, a phone can be heard. While staying in character, Jackman points to the phone offender and says: “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,” Craig says. 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.

AMTA has tips on “Mind your mobile manners” to assist people use their mobile phones in socially acceptable and appropriate ways that are sensitive to particular situations and the sensitivities of others. See AMTA's Tips here.