{"id":582669,"date":"2026-05-14T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:39:08","slug":"rivals-season-2-behind-the-scenes-with-danny-dyer-aidan-turner-and-david-tennant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582669\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivals season 2: Behind the scenes with Danny Dyer, Aidan Turner and David Tennant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper would certainly have found it funny that while delivering this heartfelt tribute, Lisa is wearing a truly garish bright pink ski suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like the 80s sort of vomits on Valerie,&#8221; is how McGrillis describes her look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rehearsals over, the cast are called away for filming. As the temperature heads below freezing, powerful pyrotechnics light up the sky and Tennant does indeed stand in a bush looking furtive, as promised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are 11 books in Cooper&#8217;s Rutshire Chronicles series, from which Rivals is taken, so there is every chance the show will run and run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And before heading outside for his close-up, Dyer suggests that if there is a third series, there could be good news for his top lip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously we&#8217;re coming to the end of the 80s now, so if we go again, we&#8217;re sort of encroaching on the early 90s and hopefully this can come off,&#8221; he says, his gloved hand pointing to his moustache.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Honestly, I just want my head back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rivals series two will be on Disney+ from Friday, 15 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper would certainly have found it funny that while delivering this heartfelt tribute, Lisa is wearing a truly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}