Danny Dyer says EastEnders 'nearly killed his career'
ok.co.ukDanny Dyer may have shouted, punched and sobbed his way through a decade of dramatic moments in EastEnders, but despite it being an East End tradition, we’ve never seen him do a choreographed dance with spoons — until now.
His unforgettable routine is performed in Mr Bigstuff with co-star and series creator Ryan Sampson, who describes it as “a little bit Michael Flatley, Lord Of The Dance”.
It’s one of the highlights of the first episode of the new comedy as their characters – estranged brothers Lee and Glen – recreate a routine they did at a holiday camp in their youth. “When I read the script I thought, how the f**k are we going to do this?” says Danny. “We’d both never played spoons.
We had a week of rehearsals and we focused more on the spoons than anything else. We had a spoon guy and a dance teacher and we really did commit to it.” Ryan credits Danny’s “snakey hips” for the scene working as well as it does, but Danny reveals that the performance was not without injury. “The spoons, they cut your fingers, so me and Ryan were running around with spoon wounds.
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