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\n Danny Dyer as Lee Campbell in Mr Bigstuff<\/p>\n
Now, he returns to his prize-winning role for the second series of the Sky show, which tells the story of two estranged brothers – Glen (played by creator Ryan Sampson), an anxious carpet salesman living his ideal suburban life with fiancee Kirsty (Harriet Webb), and Lee (played by Dyer<\/a>), an alpha male who struts back into his brother’s life carrying their father’s ashes.<\/p>\n Image: Several EastEnders alumni feature, including Nitin Ganatra, Victoria Alcock and Linda Henry, who played Dyer’s on-screen mother, Shirley Carter.<\/p>\n Reflecting on some of Albert Square’s most famous characters and who would work well in Mr Bigstuff, Dyer says he would have loved to see the late June Brown, who played the chain-smoking hypochondriac Dot Cotton for 35 years, taking on a role.<\/p>\n “Absolute legend,” he says.<\/p>\n Sampson suggests the late Dame Barbara Windsor, who played the formidable Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell, but has a clear pitch if season three gets the green light.<\/p>\n “It could still be a possible, it would be amazing,” he says. “You want your Pat Butcher, don’t you? You want Pam St Clement. Why hasn’t she played a mafia boss yet? She’d be amazing. She’d be incredible at it.”<\/p>\n Image: Dyer reveals his screensaver<\/p>\n After his long career on screen, Dyer is now enjoying playing a variety of roles alongside the Cockney geezer types that became his bread and butter in the early noughties.<\/p>\n His nuanced performance as awkward entrepreneur Freddie Jones in Rivals brought him praise from fans and critics alike, and Mr Bigstuff his BAFTA.<\/p>\n But Dyer always had range. After small TV roles in shows including The Bill and A Touch Of Frost, he grew close to the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter in 2000 after auditioning and earning the role of a waiter in his play Celebration at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, north London.<\/p>\n “I’ve got Harold Pinter as a screensaver on my phone,” he says. “I always feel that he’s sort of looking down on me or close to me, so I like to just feel that he’s around me.”<\/p>\n Dyer continued the role in Celebration both in the West End and on Broadway, with Pinter becoming his mentor in the process.<\/p>\n Read more:![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skynews-mr-bigstuff-danny-dyer_6968981.jpg\")
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\n Ryan Sampson (right) created the series and stars alongside Dyer<\/p>\n![\"Danny](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skynews-danny-dyer-bafta-tv-awards_6913589.jpg\")
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\n Dyer at the BAFTAs earlier this year. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
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