Instead he must play a cockney geezer with a penchant for violence but a heart of gold, over and over. He’s good at that, too
Danny Dyer could play a flautist in wartime Budapest, Percy Bysshe Shelley or Jesus Christ. He’s just that good
In this programme, as in life, Danny Dyer is a manic pixie dream cockney, and he is filled with all the counterintuitive wisdom and gently profane chaos that that implies Sadly, casting agents are more inclined to say, “Danny Dyer, I would like you to play a cockney geezer with a penchant for violence but a heart of gold,” and they have him quote not the words of Shelley or Jesus but words like, “We won’t stand here and be treated like utter shit c**ts,” or, “What the f**k? Are you going to plunge me with that object d’art?” Though for all I know those might be lines from Shelley or Jesus. I haven’t read all their poems.
But it’s not a documentary; it’s a comedy drama. Mr Bigstuff is about a meek lower-middle-class striver, Glen , whose troubled life with his kleptomaniacal fiancee, Kirsty , is upended by his estranged brother, Steve, a cockney geezer who trails destruction in his wake but also teaches Glen all about assertive if deranged masculinity.
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