Danny Dyer is the latest cover star of Rolling Stone UK – pre-order your copy now
The East End icon covers Rolling Stone UK issue 27...
By Nick Reilly
Danny Dyer has discussed his role in new one-hander movie One Last Deal, becoming a national treasure and a whole lot more in a new exclusive Rolling Stone UK cover.
The new interview sees the Custom House legend get candid as he discusses family life, politics, his own previous personal struggles and finding eventual happiness. You can buy pre-order Danny’s new cover here, ahead of it hitting shops tomorrow (March 12).
“It feels like a fucking nutty episode of The Twilight Zone,” he reflects on his latest film. “We filmed it in Dublin, and we’d shoot 15 pages of dialogue a day. I’d sit there with a pint of Guinness learning my lines. Drilling it, drilling it, drilling. Because I think there was a part of them that thought I wasn’t going to be able to do it and I’d have to be fed dialogue through an earpiece. It was a real test, but I fucking did it. Even if you don’t like me, you’ve got to respect the fact that I did do it.”
And season two of Rivals, you’ll be unsurprised to hear, is shaping up to be a corker.
“We lost Jilly Cooper during shooting, and it made things even more emotional,” reflects Dyer. “She’s part of the fabric and you definitely feel like she’s in the air. Which makes it even more of a shame that she won’t see it. It’s been a long shoot and when we all got the tragic news, it just gave us another push to go, ‘Right, let’s get this done and make it as brilliant as it can be.’”
It comes after Danny brought the house down when he hosted the third Rolling Stone UK Awards last year, cementing his status as a national treasure. But of that status, the man himself is unsure…
“It’s been a surprise to me, all of a sudden, that I’m being acknowledged by the critics that have just seen me as a bit of a laughing stock over the years,” he admits.
“I’m so long in the game now, I don’t take anything to heart. What I’m doing is not trying to change the world. I’m not claiming to be Marlon Brando; I’m just providing for my family, and as an actor that’s a really difficult thing to do. Can I keep working? Can I keep paying bills? Can I give my family a good life? That’s essen-tially what my drive is and that’s what I’m in it for. If, along the way, people want to dig me out for some of the films I’ve done in the past, then that’s fine.”