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Danny Dyer Talks Confounding The Critics In ‘Rivals’, Why The UK Needs Working Class Actors & What His Old Friend Harold Pinter Would Have Made Of His First Ever BAFTA Nom
Danny Dyer has talked about his role in 'Rivals', getting a BAFTA TV nomination, working class actors and his love for Harold Pinter.
He won RTS and BPG awards for his role as Freddie Jones in Rivals and has been recognized by BAFTA for a different show, Sky’s Mr Bigstuff, where he is up for Male Performance in a Comedy against the likes of Kaos’ Nabhaan Rizwan and Smoggie Queens lead Phil Dunning. Mr Bigstuff and Rivals both touch on masculinity, an issue that Dyer has been confronting down the decades with many of his characters, from The Football Factory’s Tommy Johnson to Jack in new Nick Love-directed movie Marching Powder. Love and Zygi Kamasa’s new distributor True Brit “rolled the dice” with the theme of the “ridiculousness of masculinity” in Marching Powder, Dyer said, which is about a middle aged, drug-taking football hooligan who is arrested and given six weeks to turn his life around, or else face a long spell in prison.
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