Danny Dyer on Mr Bigstuff, Oasis, and his surprising screensaver

From Human Traffic and The Business to his critically acclaimed show successful the raunchy TV adaptation of Rivals, via a stint arsenic Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter successful EastEnders, Danny Dyer has been connected our screens for much than 30 years.

But it was his show successful the TV drama Mr Bigstuff that earned him his archetypal BAFTA win - and one of the ceremony's biggest cheers from the assemblage - earlier this year.

Now, helium returns to his prize-winning relation for the 2nd bid of the Sky show, which tells the communicative of 2 estranged brothers - Glen (played by creator Ryan Sampson), an anxious carpet salesman surviving his perfect suburban beingness with fiancee Kirsty (Harriet Webb), and Lee (played by Dyer), an alpha antheral who struts backmost into his brother's beingness carrying their father's ashes.

Several EastEnders alumni feature, including Nitin Ganatra, Victoria Alcock and Linda Henry, who played Dyer's on-screen mother, Shirley Carter.

Reflecting connected immoderate of Albert Square's astir celebrated characters and who would enactment good successful Mr Bigstuff, Dyer says helium would person loved to spot the precocious June Brown, who played the chain-smoking hypochondriac Dot Cotton for 35 years, taking connected a role.

"Absolute legend," helium says.

Sampson suggests the precocious Dame Barbara Windsor, who played the formidable Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell, but has a wide transportation if play 3 gets the greenish light.

"It could inactive beryllium a possible, it would beryllium amazing," helium says. "You privation your Pat Butcher, don't you? You privation Pam St Clement. Why hasn't she played a mafia brag yet? She'd beryllium amazing. She'd beryllium unthinkable astatine it."

Dyer reveals his screensaver

After his agelong vocation connected screen, Dyer is present enjoying playing a assortment of roles alongside the Cockney geezer types that became his breadstuff and food successful the aboriginal noughties.

His nuanced show arsenic awkward entrepreneur Freddie Jones successful Rivals brought him praise from fans and critics alike, and Mr Bigstuff his BAFTA.

But Dyer ever had range. After tiny TV roles successful shows including The Bill and A Touch Of Frost, helium grew adjacent to the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter successful 2000 aft auditioning and earning the relation of a waiter successful his play Celebration astatine the Almeida Theatre successful Islington, northbound London.

"I've got Harold Pinter arsenic a screensaver connected my phone," helium says. "I ever consciousness that he's benignant of looking down connected maine oregon adjacent to me, truthful I similar to conscionable consciousness that he's astir me."

Dyer continued the relation successful Celebration some successful the West End and connected Broadway, with Pinter becoming his mentor successful the process.

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In 2020, helium presented a Sky Arts documentary, Danny Dyer On Pinter, which explored the life, vocation and interaction of the playwright and screenwriter, who died successful 2008.

He besides has plans to make a signifier tribute to his friend, presently titled When Harry Met Danny.

Reflecting connected his introduction into the industry, helium says theatre was rather inaccessible astatine the time, but Pinter opened it up to him.

"I deliberation it's adjacent worse now, which I consciousness is simply a bittersweet authorities of affairs," helium says. "I don't cognize wherefore that is. Everything's go rather elite. All the elite f****** looking aft themselves, truthful that needs to change."

'Love successful the air' astatine Oasis gig

But Pinter isn't his lone large power - Dyer was 1 of the thousands of fans to spot Oasis marque their instrumentality to the signifier successful Cardiff earlier this month.

"It was truly affectional seeing them travel out," helium says. "There was a batch of emotion successful the air, a batch of bully energy.

"You know, there's a batch of f****** crap going on. I deliberation people, of my property arsenic well, conscionable privation to leap astir and sing them songs astatine the apical of their lungs. So I'm inactive recovering, I'm not going to lie."

Mr Bigstuff returns for play 2 connected Thursday, connected Sky Max and NOW