Rivals star Danny Dyer, famed for his TV hardman roles including EastEnders pub landlord Mick Carter, believes William Shakespeare just isn’t for him. He told Louis Theroux he can’t get his head around the Bard
Actor Danny Dyer has banned the Bard. The EastEnders and Rivals star said he won’t do Shakespeare because “I don’t get it”.
Marching Powder star Danny, 47, said: “I don’t think it’s for me. Really? I understand that, as actors especially, you’ve got your Hamlet and all that, that’s what you should be doing. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it. I struggle with the rhythm of it.
“I totally respect everyone that does it, I absolutely do. I just don’t feel it. I don’t find it funny. Some people will laugh at it and I go, ‘Well, I don’t know what we’re laughing at here.’ I just can’t.”
Danny, who played pub landlord Mick Carter in EastEnders, has often been associated with brash Cockney-talking hardman roles. But he told Louis Theroux on his podcast that he can’t get his head around the Elizabethan playwright.
He added: “For me, acting is the musicality of words and the rhythm of words and making words interesting. And I’ve tried with reading Shakespeare and I just don’t get it.
“I don’t understand it. My little brain won’t, you know? It doesn’t warm to it for some reason. Who knows? In 10 years time, when I become an older boy, maybe I will get amongst it. But it doesn’t excite me. I need to be excited by dialogue, you know?”
It comes after the TV star revealed he was advised to ditch his Cockney accent to boost his chance of making it in Hollywood.
He was encouraged to adopt an American twang even when he wasn’t acting. But he said he gave up on dreams of making it in Hollywood because he wasn’t keen to move them and ditch Britain.
The Football Factories star said: “I did go over there years ago and did the whole classic, on the next big thing and I just couldn’t be bothered. I hated the fact that they wanted me to speak American all the time, which is what you’re meant to do out there. Everyone thought I was Australian.
“Can I be bothered? How desperate do you want to be?”
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