Danny Dyer Looks Back Over 2009

Thursday 26th November 2009 - 10:00:00

2009 has been an incredibly busy year for Danny Dyer with the likes of City Rats and Dead Man Running under his belt.

But he's taking a bit of a break from his movie career this week to talk about his big passion in life... football.

Yes he's promoting his new DVD Football Foul Ups and I caught up with him to chat about it, the year he has had and what lies ahead over the next twelve months.

- Your new DVD Football Foul Ups is out today so can you tell me a little bit about it?

It’s basically, I live and breath football, this idea got put to me and it’s just me for an hour and half talking about football about players getting it wrong, because we sort of celebrate footballers and they are on so much money it’s nice to see them get it wrong.

So it’s just an hour and a half of me being cheeky about footballers if you are a fan of football and a fan of mine you are going to love it.

There are some own goals on there, my top ten own goals, really bad misses as well as some really good goals and good goalkeeping saves. It’s a real little stocking filler for Christmas.

- You have done the movie The Football Factory which led to the Real Football Factories, Real Football  Factories International and now this so what is your fascination with the sport?

I just love, I’m just a man you know never trust a man who doesn’t like football of music. You are just brought up with is in the playground it was my favourite thing at school I couldn’t wait break time to get out there in the rain to play football. And my dad loved football and he took me to West Ham when I was a youngest and I just got the buzz.

It’s the one thing that men share in common and the one thing that we talk about more than anything, men we don’t really express ourselves do we? We’re not like women who sit around gossiping we talk about football, if we didn’t football I think we would just sit in silence.

- Talking of football what did you think of France vs. Northern Ireland?

It was terrible wasn’t it? I think it was disgusting behaviour from Henry because it was such a blatant thing. But I think France for a long time haven’t been very good and haven’t got a very good team and they had to resort to that. I felt really sorry for the Irish, it’s a weird thing because I think the Irish, if we
were playing France,  they would be cheering France on and celebrating the handball.

But we don’t feel the say way about the Irish and I really wanted them to go through and I think that they should have a replay but I don’t think it will happen. 

He has tarnished his whole reputation Henry for just one moment on the pitch so I think he is going to suffer for it in the long run, and I really hope we get them in our group so we can smash them to pieces.
 
- And sticking with the football theme your last movie Dead Man running saw you work with Ashley Cole and Rio Ferdinand, as they were producers, so how was that?

The produced the movie so it wasn’t that hands on they gave us the money and trusted us to go away and make the movie and I think that they are really happy. And it’s done really well actually they only put the movie on eighty screens, which is a really low number while other movies are on four hundred, and we still took a lot of money.

They are really nice guys Rio and Ashley, I know Ashley gets a bit of bad press but he has always been really nice with me. I think he has a beautiful wife, has and loads of money, plays for one of the best clubs in the world and I think that there is a lot of jealousy and hatred towards him but I think he’s a really nice fella.

- You took on the role of Bing in the movie so what drew you to the character and the film?

Well it originally came to me through Tamer Hassan, he plays the lead in it, and he is a good friend of mine. He had the script early doors and he approached me about and I said if we got the money together I was up for it. So he went away and he knew Rio since he was a kid and got him on board, I think he gave us £1 million, and them Ashley came on board. 

So we had the money and we just needed to get the right cast and they went about getting 50 Cent, which was a real moment for me, he brings a whole new audience to the film so it was a real joy working with him.