{"id":342,"date":"2025-03-05T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:17:45","slug":"danny-dyer-forced-to-cast-son-in-film-as-no-other-kid-would-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/danny-dyer-forced-to-cast-son-in-film-as-no-other-kid-would-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Dyer forced to cast son in film as \u2018no other kid would do it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Danny Dyer has revealed why his son had to be cast in his new film Marching Powder (Picture: Marching Powder\/ True Brit Entertainment)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Danny Dyer<\/a> has explained that he was forced to hire his own son in his new movie Marching Powder after struggling to find a child to play this role.<\/p>\n

Danny, 47, is set to star in the new film Marching Powder<\/a>, which sees him reunite with Football Factory director Nick Love.<\/p>\n

The role is set to explore what it means to be a working man in modern society battling toxic masculinity and sobriety.<\/p>\n

In a charming twist, Danny’s real-life son Arty plays his child in this new movie.<\/p>\n

‘Yeah, [my son filmed with me] which was a revelation to me,’ he said in an interview with Metro<\/strong>. ‘I mean, I have a son in Marching Powder. He was the same age as my son, and it\u2019s got some naughty dialogue in it because we\u2019re trying to highlight the fact that my character is a s**t dad, he’s not been very available.<\/p>\n

‘They couldn’t find anyone to play this child. And there’s some really intimate stuff between me and my son in this that I don’t think I could have pulled off with someone else’s kid.’<\/p>\n

‘There’s a whole babysitting montage segment where’s the first time I babysat him, and we just improvised, me and my boy.’<\/p>\n

He added in an interview with LadBible<\/a> that \u2018no other kid would do it’.<\/p>\n

‘So the casting director said, “Look, you might have to drop this part because we’re not going to be able to get a child to do this. They just won’t allow it,”‘ he recalled.<\/p>\n

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