Danny Dyer is no hardman, he says, telling the Mirror of daughter Dani’s wedding, his tough new role in One Last Deal, and why he’s annoyed at the films 18 rating
Danny Dyer admits he is so taken with his daughter’s husband that he asked him for the first dance at their wedding. Danny, 48, whose TV personality daughter Dani, 29, married West Ham captain Jarod Bowen, 29, last May, says: “I did ask him for the first dance at the wedding. It did not go down well. I have had a few t**ts come through my door and you do have to wear it. I can’t tell my daughter who to fall in love with, but the best present she could have given me was the captain of West Ham. So it was a beautiful day!”
Danny also admits to taking his BAFTA – awarded last year for his performance as Lee in Sky comedy Mr Bigstuff – to the wedding as his unofficial plus one. Of his wedding speech, he says: “It was just after I won the BAFTA so I did bring the BAFTA out. I started by saying ‘today is not about me….but.’ I pulled it out and it went down well.”
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Crushing suggestions that he’s a hardman, he continues: ”I am a big softie. My kids call me their cloud as when they cuddle me I feel like a cloud. I think there is a little bit of fattism in there, but I have never claimed to be a hardman.” Danny, who can be seen playing Jimmy Banks, a foul-mouthed cockney football agent, in his latest film One Last Deal, is aggrieved by the movie’s 18 certificate – despite the storyline tackling the issue of rape.
The plot sees Jimmy on the verge of landing a colossal new payday for one superstar client, who is currently waiting for a jury to return their verdict on his rape charge. He says: “You are really limiting your audience. I think young men should be watching films like this to learn about misogyny and about men turning a blind eye to rape.”
Danny loathes his character, saying of Jimmy: “I hated him. The director said he loved him but he was awful.” He also says that making the movie – filmed in Hove Castle – nearly drove him “insane.” He says: “They built like an office and I sat in there for 10 days. I learnt my 15 pages. It drove me insane a little bit. I did go a bit crackers. It was not a pleasant experience. It is like an episode of The Twilight Zone where this geezer has the worst day of his life. I read it and thought it was brilliant. It is kind of like my Hamlet.”
But Danny gives actors who don’t buckle down and learnt their lines short thrift. He says: “There is no excuses for not learning your lines. Some people think they can blag it. Just do your homework right. You can’t blag this sh**.”
Danny drew on deep, buried feelings to create the emotion needed for the part. He says: “You can use Vicks and you whack it under your eyeballs and you start crying, or you can go to some deep place within your soul. I dug deep for this movie as it sits with you. This took me to dark places where I needed to go.”
The actor says One Last Deal would make good theatre – but not for him. He says: “Not eight shows a week! But it would be a good one man show. I would like to give someone else a shot or I could flip and give the part to a woman. That would be mad and that intrigues me slightly.”
Danny, who will be riding a horse in the new series of The Rivals and has announced he will be playing policeman Trevor Lock in an upcoming C4 drama The Siege, about the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege, says he may make a sequel to One Last Deal. Describing the film as “a bit heavy,” he says: “It is all about the readies and then we can do the prison film the sequel. It is all about readies.”
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