SNEAK PEAK | Danny Dyer Becomes a Desperate Football Agent With Nothing Left…

0:00Tom Fordyce: You've got to talk us through your film, One Last Deal, right? Right. Talk us through that. You say you're playing a football agent and the way you're playing this football agent is, it reminds me of a lot of agents that I've been around.

0:14Danny Dyer: Well, I think they run the game now, agents, don't they? They're such a powerful force. And there's an argument to say, not very nice people. I mean, agents are there to look after their client and their client only, so they never really have an affiliation with the club they're playing for. you feel like contracts, it doesn't mean fuck all now, you sign a six year contract, it's like, well, if the player gets the, it'll go anyway. So I suppose really, it's, the point of the film is, I'm the only one in it. So this is why I was attracted to it, because I thought, I got sent it, it was 120 pages, it's just me in a fucking room on my own.

0:52Danny Dyer: And I read it, and I thought, this is so good. It's like this guy has the worst day of his life, right? And he's, you know, he's been a snake throughout you know it's all starting to come back to him a little bit now so I read it and thought I love it and then I thought can I fucking do it and I think the only reason I'm going to know is if I say yes so we shot it 10 days straight in Dublin and it's just me in a room it's like an episode of Twilight Zone he just has the worst day of his life and he's just out of rehab so he's lost a lot of clients because of that he's got one client left and this one client is like Harry Cade he's the best player He's the top scorer in the league, right?

1:30Danny Dyer: It just happens to be, and it's quite relevant as well, that on the same day this player has got a court case, he's got a trial for rape. Now, my character, who don't care about all that, who's sort of tampered with the evidence and stuff like that, he's just got to get him his five-year deal and get him as much read as he can and pray that obviously the trial can't, and he gets off. So, again, no morals, this man. But it's really clever the way it pans out. and I don't want to give too much away but I had to keep it interesting, hold the screen for an hour and a half. Every character's in it, it's on the end of a blower.

2:07Danny Dyer: So it's my job to make them sort of feel alive as well. So they cast other people and when we did it on the day, I came in, I turned up, put my little earpiece in because obviously when you're on the phone, you have an earpiece so that you can hear the other actor. Never met the other actors that were doing it. They was in a tent somewhere. Come in, get me a bit of clobber on, I go, hello baby, how you getting on? Yeah, lovely, would you have a breakfast? and small talk and then we start acting 15 pages a day and it was a real test for me man but was it a reminder for yourself

2:36Peter Crouch: as well about because everyone's got to love Danny Dyer and everyone's got to or feels like they know you a bit of a national treasure if you look on Facebook mate

2:44Danny Dyer: there's a lot of **** to take maybe maybe but is this a reminder of what

2:49Peter Crouch: what like your game is sometimes we can underplay the or forget the skill of certain players because of their character. Do you think this was a reminder of why Danny Dyer's a great actor?

3:01Danny Dyer: Well, I don't know. Listen, I'm just like everyone here. I'm trying to ply my trade. I've been doing it for a long time. Feeding me kids, having a nice life. That's it, really. I've never said I'm a fucking genius or a brilliant actor or whatever. I think what makes you a good actor is getting hired. So there are people out there that say, I only play myself and all that. But over a period of three decades, there are plenty of directors and producers want me to be in their stuff because they think I can do the job for them. So that's all I'm doing. I'm applying my trade for as long as I possibly can.

3:33Danny Dyer: So I'm now in a position where I've got fame and a profile. So I get offered jobs now. And this was something where I thought, how many opportunities are you going to get to sit in a room on your jack and try and bring this character to life? Now, you ate him at first. My job is, can you give a fuck about him towards the end? Because it comes on top. He buckles early with a booze. First bit of adversity, he gets the whiskey out. So now I've got to start playing drunk from about halfway up. He sucks off two bottles of whiskey by the end. He's absolutely disheveled. We have to deconstruct him. In the first scene, he turns up, he bowls in the office, he's got a three-piece suit on, braces, cufflinks, looks the nuts.

4:11Danny Dyer: As it goes on, we had to lose the tyre. You know what I mean? The brace has got cufflinks. We had to very carefully, you know, see that this man is deteriorating before your eyes. So it really was just another test for me to go, can I do it? Now, I'm not good at accents, never have been. If this character was Irish, I'd have been fucked. So it was about me going, I can draw on all my experience and the things that, you know, what people like me as an actor and bring it to life and be interesting. And what is an actor? It's someone who's, I'm a salesman. I sell words. I sell sentences. And that sounds like a weird thing to say, but I'm going, I'm going to speak now.

4:47Danny Dyer: Do you want to listen to me? And there's plenty of people that don't, and they'll turn me over. Other people are engaged in it. so it's just about the rhythm and the musicality of sentences and words is what we do as actors we sell it I'm getting off my nut there look yeah yeah we've just got a little

5:01Tom Fordyce: clip of you now the braces who's idea were the braces well we were at Savile Row

5:06Danny Dyer: and you know it wasn't a big budget but obviously I'm the only actor in it so they had a bit of dough for me clobber nutty pair of strides I'm not going to lie but yeah we've done it all proper like we thought this is a proper agent he's worked a few quid you know it's all about how you look and everything so yeah they propagated me out mate and like I said one outfit with a nice little sort of suede loafer and this is the scene where I think everything's going to be sweet I've pulled off this deal right it's going to go tits up but so I get off me nuts and start dancing to Three Lions this was they didn't play a tune during the day they didn't know what tune they were going to get so I just had to dance to nothing so you're doing this to nothing no

5:48Tom Fordyce: you can't do that you did that to nothing

5:50Danny Dyer: I'd do nothing I'd have to go home with it there's a bit where I played a ukulele and they sent me a ukulele I thought fuck yeah I've got enough on me plate I said I've never played an instrument so I said well you know there's this thing go online and I went online I looked at it I said listen can we make it the most simple fucking tune ever written and then basically I just sing you put the lamb in the coconut and drink the fucker down and I'm playing a ukulele and you know it's like a little ditty sort of you know obviously he can't really play the ukulele but I've sort of done it a little bit and I think it's just another task, isn't it?

6:24Danny Dyer: But again, it's sort of going into the football world for sure and about how snakey agents can be. I'm sure, you know, you know how it works. But it's also about a man who's struggling with addiction and, you know, a man who's estranged from his wife now. He doesn't really see his kids. He's give up everything for the pound note. He's driven by the dollar and he comes unstuck. So I'm very proud of it. I know I've probably got a wave of shit coming my way. There'll be a few critics that fucking hate it but I'm here bracing myself off so that people know about it and aware of it and if you fancy going down if you're a fan of mine you'll love it like I said don't fucking swerve it