Even so, when he acted as master of ceremonies at the charity premiere of Billy Elliot last week in Leicester Square, you could sense the ease with which Daldry handles the spotlight, his confidence before a massive, if largely adoring, audience.
They are beautiful objects to be sighed over and stroked – the handles are an afterthought.
A company website that publishes statistics on how Facebook handles data requests shows it rejected both of two Russian government requests for information on its users in 2014.
It's now four episodes in to its eight-episode run, and it has become, somehow, a sensitive, sweet and funny look at teenage life that handles confusing sexuality with surprising dexterity.
He seems to have experience caring for the elderly, evident in how he handles his victims, which could suggest he has worked with older people or maybe just spent years looking after his mother.
Google needs to be more transparent in the way it handles so-called "right to be forgotten" requests, with 80 leading academics writing an open letter that accuses the firm of developing its policies "in the dark".
Inspired by Kafka's short story The Hunger Artist, Hermann Hesse's Siddartha and, possibly, his burgeoning love handles, Blaine fasted while people hurled food and abuse at him.
One is that, for reasons of history and because of elements of the national psyche, Britain handles its diversity better than many comparable nations.
Letwin softened his previous insistence that the industry adopt all of Leveson's non-statutory recommendations to the letter, indicating that a new regulator would not have to act in "the spirit of existing equalities legislation" when it handles complaints made about "allegedly discriminatory reporting".
It handles the resources that software and processes require.
To this day I can still smell the wooden handles of the picks we used to pass to the miners when they came to collect their tools before daybreak.
