S5 EP7: Danny Dyer describes battling addiction, UFO obsessions, and tackling Shakespeare
The Louis Theroux Podcast
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4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 1212. Are you there? |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, welcome to the Louis Theroux podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Today I'm joined by actor, presenter and recently ordained national treasure Danny Dyer. |
| 0:27.5 | Growing up in East London during the 80s, Danny's breakthrough roles include |
| 0:30.8 | Moth in Human Traffic and Chelsea Hooligan Tommy Johnson in 2004's The Football Factory. |
| 0:39.6 | The success of these roles was double-edged, |
| 0:45.7 | leading to Danny being typecast in hard man roles. That was an era when I first came across him. |
| 0:53.3 | He was a sort of resident of the lads mags of the early 2000s. He was the man that many young people, |
| 0:57.3 | young men, aspired to be. He had swagger. He was charismatic and unapologetically working class and always gave good quote, which often landed |
| 1:04.9 | him in hot water. He kind of came unstuck in various ways and then was rehabilitated after joining the cast of EastEnders in |
| 1:13.6 | 2013 in the role of Mick Carter. He was on the show for nine years. Outside of film and TV, Danny had a |
| 1:19.6 | significant working in personal relationship with playwright and noble laureate Harold Pinter, first featuring |
| 1:26.0 | in his play celebrations in 2000. We talk about the significance of |
| 1:30.3 | this relationship in the conversation. It's an unlikely pairing, which is why Danny's quite often |
| 1:35.9 | asked about it. Although maybe it shouldn't be unlikely. Harold Pinter, the, as I say, Nobel Prize-winning author acclaimed the highest levels of the literary salons of London and New York. |
| 1:53.1 | And then there's Danny, who was better known for his roles in, you know, these sort of soccer hard man roles. |
| 2:02.7 | And nevertheless, they had this relationship of mutual respect and a kind of mentor-mentee-type bonding. Danny also dabbled in the |
| 2:10.1 | noblest art form of them all, documentary making. He presented the real football factory and Danny Dyer's deadliest men. So we talk about, |
| 2:22.8 | well, our common interests in that respect. More recently, Danny played the self-made tech |
| 2:29.7 | millionaire and surprise sex symbol, Freddie Jones, in the Disney Plus adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1988 Bonkbuster Rivals. |
| 2:39.3 | It's got a lot of rompy-pumpy in it. |
| 2:41.7 | It's fun. |
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