EastEnders' Danny Dyer looks unrecognisable on set of new show with David Tennant
20.03.2023 - 21:53
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Danny Dyer looked worlds apart from his famous EastEnders character Mick Carter on the set of his new show. The actor was spotted for the first time filming for a brand new Disney+ show, set to air later this year.
EastEnders' Danny could be seen on set of a 16th century house in Gloucestershire filming for Rivals, an eight-part series also starring David Tennant, dressed in a smart navy suit, open collar white shirt and floppy wig as he left the grand house. Rivals is an eight-part drama based on the novel of the same name by Jilly Cooper.
David Tennant, also spotted on set, looked smart and swish in a suit and bowtie, also wearing a wig. The iconic novel, published in 1988, is the second of 10 books in Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles, and follows the affluent elite society of the 1980s.The most recent novel in the series, Mount!, was published in 2016.
Rivals is set in the world of television, and sees a dramatic and tense rivalry unfold between aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black and big wig TV boss Tony Baddingham (played by Tennant). Danny Dyer is playing character Freddie Jones, who Rupert must join forces with alongside chat show host Declan O'Hara, to bring his rival down.
The series is set to be a dramatic look back at the '80s television industry, and when announcing the series, Disney+ said: "Rivals is a joyously mischievous rollercoaster ride, steamy in its love stories and packed with larger-than-life characters. "Yet beneath the spectacle and fun, the series brings a 2020s lens to the 1980s, offering a raw exploration of a complicated moment in British history when class, race, sex, wealth and sexual liberation meant that, for the very privileged few, there were no limits to what they could achieve." It's a far
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