Danny Dyer was asked to appear in a film called ‘Cockneys Vs Zombies’.
The London-born actor admits he tired of being offered the same type of roles – as a British hardman – and singled out the horror movie as the biggest low point he reached.
He said: “I turned down a movie recently called ‘Cockneys Vs Zombies’. I thought ‘F**k me, for f**k’s sake’. That’s the final nail in the coffin for me. The fact they even had the front to use that title. I didn’t even turn the first page of the script.”
The ‘Human Traffic’ star says rejecting the script was a relatively new thing for him because he used to accept anything he was offered out of a fear of rejection.
He added to BANG Showbiz: “So I’m learning, like I said, when you struggle as an actor for so long, and being an actor is about rejection, being told no all the time, so when you get on a run, and people start writing parts for you, you can get a bit carried away with that and say yes to everything.
“And I’ve had a bit of a spell of going, ‘Yeah, OK, I feel privileged that you want me in your film’. You’ve got to rein that in and say ‘No, it’s not going to test me, it’s not going to challenge me, it’s nothing new.”
Danny Dyer’s ‘Football Foul-Ups’ DVD is available to buy now.
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