Danny Dyer has been amazed by the response to ‘Rivals’.
Danny Dyer is thrilled with the response to his ‘kind’ character in Rivals
The 47-year-old star portrayed Freddie Jones in the Disney+ series based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s raunchy novel of the same name and believes that the role has disproved his “hard man” image.
Asked if he expected fans to react so strongly to the character, Danny told the Metro newspaper’s 60 Seconds column: “No! It’s a revelation. And it was all last-minute dotcom. I couldn’t do it originally.
“(Producer) Dominic Treadwell-Collins is my very close friend and somebody I’ve worked with on ‘EastEnders’.
“I’ve been sort of labelled as a hard man. It’s all b******* really, I think it’s because I swear a lot and walk in a certain way, but actually, I’m a very sensitive man, a feminist, I’d like to think.
“But Dominic brought in my character Mick Carter to ‘EastEnders’, who’s this alpha male wearing the pink dressing gown. He just knew I’d be perfect for Fred.”
The offer came so late that Danny didn’t have time to read the script but he was pleased that his “kind” character was well-received.
The ‘Mr. Bigstuff’ actor recalled: “I didn’t have time, no, so I got the email and thought, well, it’s Dominic, I love him.
“Then I started to find out who Freddie was. Obviously, it’s also got Rupert Campbell-Black, who is, like, the sexiest man alive, this very posh Tory again, even though that doesn’t sound sexy.
“But I wanted to try and make kindness sexy. A kind man, who sees women for what they are. And it actually f****** worked.
“With ‘Rivals’, people fell for the kind…
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