Danny Dyer took a swipe at EastEnders as he said contracted jobs lead to people not being able to follow their dreams.
The 44-year-old actor announced he was leaving the BBC One soap in January, after nine years of playing lovable rogue Mick Carter.
Danny won the hearts of millions of viewers with his role as the Queen Vic landlord, and he’s also appeared on other BBC shows, including his hit Saturday night game show The Wall.
In 2018, the father–of-three reportedly signed a £1million deal with BBC bosses that prevented him from pursuing other projects with other broadcasters, and since confirming he was leaving EastEnders, he has inked a six-figure deal with Sky.
In the latest episode of Sorted with the Dyers with daughter Dani Dyer, Danny read out a question from a listener called Ellie, who was struggling to realise her dream of being a comedy writer.
The 18-year-old asked the father-daughter duo for their advice, as she was finding it hard to be taken seriously, and wanted to crack the entertainment industry, but worried being from the West Midlands would hamper her success.
“This is something I went through,” Danny began. “Do not let your class worry you.”
“Us working class, peasants, if you want to call us, we got something about us,” Danny quipped.
“We totally understand what life is like. To live on the f**king breadline. And that is where comedy comes from,” he explained.
He told listeners that comedy is something he’s been wanting to do for a long time, and heaped praise on female comedians such as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who he called a “f**king great actor”.
“This is something I want to delve into,” he admitted.
He urged people to “follow their dreams”, and said it was “pointless” just living your life “working for someone to get them rich”.
“All of us should follow our f**king dreams. As a human being,” he shared, as he began to talk about his own experiences, and said he would hate to be working for someone while sacrificing his goals in life.
“And then what stops us is when an employer comes to you and says, ‘Do you want to work for me?’ And you go, ‘oh, okay’. And they say, ‘I’m going to offer you 40 grand a year to not follow your dreams’,” he said.
Danny said not living up to your own expectations was similar to being “on the conveyor belt of life”, and said people can end up depressed if they’re doing a job they hate doing.
Danny then told Ellie she should be prepared for “a lot of rejection”, and said there would be “ups and downs” to being a successful comedian.
Despite his stark warning, he said he hoped Ellie would be writing a comedy role for him, but told her: “Make sure I don’t have an accent, because I can’t f**king do them.”
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