Danny Dyer is convinced he's a natural ginger, but confessed it looks 'awful' and will never go back to the colour again.
The 44-year-old said he had to dye his hair ginger for the 2006 movie All In The Game, alongside Ray Winstone, but regretted the decision as he couldn’t get the colour out for months.
In the movie, which also starred Idris Elba and Nicola Stephenson, Danny played a football agent, and said the only way he could secure the role was if he dyed his hair.
The EastEnders star said director Jim O'Hanlon had “an issue with me” because of his breakout role in the 2004 sports drama Football Factory, and gave Danny an ultimatum.
“I’d done Football Factory and I really wanted this job. It was about football, Ray was a football manager and I played his son,” Danny recalled, according to the Daily Star.
“But the director had an issue with me. He thought because of Football Factory, I was going to bring the wrong vibe to the job. Hooligans running around, that sort of stuff,” he explained.
“But he said ‘Listen, the only way I can give you this job is if you dye your hair ginger. Ray was ginger when he was younger and you’re playing his son.’
“So I thought, ‘F*** it.’ You do anything for acting. So, I dyed it and it looked awful,” he laughed.
Danny was left convinced he's a natural ginger as the colour appeared to be exacerbated by the hair dye, but he was so determined to win the role he would’ve done anything.
“When we went to the read-through I walked into it with a ginger nut. The fall out from that was I couldn’t get the ginger out. It took f***ing months and months of me trying to dye it,” he said.
“I think maybe I’m a natural ginger,” Danny quipped.
The beloved soap star stunned fans when he announced in January he would be leaving EastEnders after nine years playing lovable rogue Mick Carter.
During an episode of his podcast Sorted with the Dyers with daughter Dani Dyer, he teased the possibility of heading into a different direction with his career, and said he wanted to try comedy.
“This is something I want to delve into a little bit as well You’ve got to follow your dreams. Because otherwise, what have you got? All of us should follow our dreams as human beings,” he shared.
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