Danny Dyer has revealed he left locals wide-eyed in shock when he ran through a council estate ‘stark naked’ while filming Mr. Bigstuff.
After the success of its first series, the second instalment of the Sky comedy-drama is set to hit our screens later this year.
The show follows two estranged and rather contrasting brothers, Glen (Ryan Sampson) and Lee (Danny Dyer), as they discover that their father, who they thought was dead, is actually alive.
But during filming for the show’s second series, which has now finished, Danny was asked to do something not many actors have done before – run through a British council estate fully nude.
He and his co-star Ryan told Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston about the hilarious scene on Wednesday during an appearance on Heart Breakfast.
Ryan explained: ‘So, series two, end of the first episode, it got quite a visceral… Shall we say a full-frontal moment?’, before Danny revealed: ‘Nudity.’
Danny Dyer has revealed he left locals in shock when he ran through a council estate ‘stark naked’ while filming Mr. Bigstuff (pictured in 2005)
Dyer plays Lee in the series, an alpha male with a prescription drug addiction (pictured in the show’s first series)
Ryan continued: ‘There’s a full-frontal moment, and it’s in a public place as well. And I wasn’t sure whether Danny would to do it or whatever, but he’s completely up for it.’
‘It’s a scene where I’m running through a council estate, yeah, stark naked,’ Dyer quipped.
‘I read it, I laughed. I thought you know, “it’s got to be done”. The first ep is about Lee, he’s been emasculated. So he’s just moping about all day, so irritated.
‘He needs to find his mojo, I was going to say his plums!,’ the former EastEnders actor laughed.
‘Anyways, so there’s this amazing scene at the end where I’m sort of chasing someone down the street, and I’ve got a towel, and I take the towel off, and I use it as some sort of lasso.
‘I mean, you’re sort of reading it going, “How on Earth are we going to do this?”‘
Ryan went onto describe the moment Danny whipped off the towel and sprinted through the estate, with a local even spotting him as he did so.
‘Like, I thought we were going to shut the road down or something. Actually, nope. It’s just a real suburban street!
Danny explained the story on Wednesday’s Heart Breakfast show, leaving hosts Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston in hysterics
The former EastEnders actor was joined in the studio by his co-star in Mr. Bigstuff, Ryan Sampson, who plays his brother Glen in the show
‘So, I’m stood at the other end of the street and he’s running, and there’s this man on his phone. Danny is running down, and this man goes – he’s outside the house – and he goes on a phone, “Sorry babe, I’m going to have to get back to you, because there’s a man running down the street naked, and I’m not being funny, he looks like Mick from EastEnders”.’
Danny played Mick, who owned the Queen Victoria pub in the popular BBC soap, for a nine-year period beginning in 2013.
Elsewhere in the interview, Danny opened up about his daughter Dani Dyer’s wedding to West Ham United footballer Jarrod Bowen, calling it ‘the best day of his life’.
The celebrity couple tied the knot in a ‘Bridgerton-themed’ wedding on May 31 at the plush £500-a-night Langley Hotel in Iver, Buckinghamshire.
Dani wowed on the occasion in a £10,000 off-the-shoulder dress created by the award-winning wedding dress designer Suzanne Neville.
Danny described his daughter Dani Dyer’s wedding day as the ‘best day of his life’
The former Love Island star married West Ham United and England winger Jarrod Bowen in a ‘Bridgerton-themed’ wedding on May 31
Jarrod – who wiped away tears as Danny walked his daughter towards the alter – wore a three-piece black suit for the ceremony.
Danny, a lifelong Hammers supporter, has regularly gushed about the fact his daughter’s seeing his favourite footballer.
And he amusingly told Amanda and Jamie that on Dani’s wedding day he gave her away to the ‘man of his dreams’.
Speaking about the wedding, he told the hosts: ‘I was in pieces, darling.
‘The best day of my life. Honestly, it was just so beautiful.
‘I managed, you know, to give my daughter away to the man of my dreams – I don’t think that’s ever happened in the history of any father giving their daughter away!
‘So it was the perfect day. Let me tell you that now, it was just beautiful.’
