“There’s a bloke running naked down the street…and I think it’s Mick from EastEnders.”Danny Dyer returns in Season 2 of Mr Bigstuff, and he’s joined by the cast to talk toxic masculinity, fatherhood, and the unexpected perils of penis socks.They also dive into the mechanics of “quiching” someone in the face, why modern masculinity is broken, and why they believe comedy is the remedy.
00:04You realise when you're running the sock ain't going to stay on?
00:06Sorry babe, I think I'm going to have to go because
00:08there's a bloke running naked down the street and I think it's Mick from EastEnders.
00:11Trauma.
00:13Thought my dad was dead.
00:15Turns out he just left us.
00:16So we've got some questions.
00:17Mr Big Stuff is back for season two.
00:19Come on.
00:20This is one of the funniest British comedies I've seen in absolutely years.
00:25Thank you so much.
00:26And I think there's some amazing physical comedy in this from all of you.
00:29Thanks.
00:30His falls, we were talking about it last night weren't we?
00:32Oh he's incredible.
00:33He's the king of falls.
00:34That's really hard to tell.
00:35Or bumping his head.
00:36Or jumping a fence.
00:38Yes.
00:39Really s***.
00:40You know what I mean?
00:42It sounds easier than what it is but he manages it so well.
00:46I think if you're a very short man then everyone wants to see you just get a bit bashed and bruised.
00:51I know what's going on so give people what they want.
00:54I was going to say what was the funniest scene to film but I guess all of you are choosing
00:58a Glenfall.
00:59Well there's a funny bit where Danny's character Lee gets quiched so he gets a quiche hits him
01:05in the face and throwing like a room full of very very serious creatives or throwing quiche
01:13Lorraine's while he remains completely stony faced.
01:17They quiche the life out of me.
01:18They quiche the life out of me.
01:19The comedy comes from the fact that it really winds Lee up.
01:24Yeah.
01:25The fact that they quiche him.
01:26It's just that's took it too far.
01:27You can't just have like a cheese and tomato.
01:29I mean that's not funny.
01:30Come on.
01:31You've got to have like chunks of meat.
01:32Chunks of meat.
01:33Yeah.
01:34And they gave us when we turned up on the day they were like okay so here are all your rubber quiches
01:38that we've made and I was like well that won't leave the quiche imprint.
01:41Right.
01:42And the little bits of egg.
01:43We need the little bit of egg.
01:44We need egg on his face.
01:45We need egg on his face.
01:46And so they were like okay that's fine.
01:48Someone went out of the room and I could hear him go you need to go to co-op now.
01:53I said a quiche Lorraine.
01:57The bill?
01:58Someone's got to pay.
01:59How you sort of managed to bring so much heart and like humour to something which so much of us can resonate with which is sort of broken families.
02:06Yeah.
02:07Toxic you know absent dads.
02:08Father figures.
02:09Role models.
02:10Absolutely.
02:11Mentors.
02:12But I think if you can watch a show and you laugh really belly laugh and it can make you cry you're onto a winner.
02:17Well one scene that made me belly laugh maybe most of all was when your character Danny Lee is running stark naked down the street.
02:26I have to ask was that actually you?
02:28Yeah I did have a double for the scuffle but no it was me.
02:31Yes.
02:32I can say it was definitely you.
02:34I had a sock to Harvey modesty.
02:39You realise when you're running the sock ain't going to stay on.
02:42It was more than a sock.
02:43They sort of gaffered you.
02:45They gaffered him up.
02:46They gaffered me to make it.
02:48It was really gaffered up.
02:49Proper taped on.
02:50It was a whole parcel wasn't it?
02:52You're dreading that gaffer coming off.
02:54But I embraced it.
02:57You know what are you going to do?
02:58It's funny.
02:59That was Ryan's way of showing the audience that oh he's back.
03:01He's going to chase someone down the street naked.
03:03Yeah.
03:04And lasso them with a towel.
03:05And I was nervous about pitching it to Danny.
03:07Because obviously that's quite a mad thing to present someone.
03:09Because we actually had no other way of doing it than he would have to be really.
03:13Danny would have to be naked in the street.
03:15It's just a normal suburban street right.
03:17So there's a man going into his house on the phone.
03:19And he goes and he looks up and he goes sorry babe I think I'm going to have to go.
03:22Because there's a bloke running naked down the street and I think it's Mick from EastEnders.
03:25I was like this is incredible.
03:27Just another day at the office.
03:28Just feeding the kids you know I'm running me ready.
03:30What are you?
03:31The yogurt pots are going to Bramping.
03:33Don't know my darling.
03:34Comes in handy.
03:35This is a show about a sort of very complicated brotherly relationship between you two.
03:40Yeah.
03:41They get into some pretty wild scrapes.
03:42I mean what was the craziest thing you got up to with your siblings?
03:46Me and my brother, it was 80 months between us.
03:49And we were brought on a very rough council estate.
03:51And we used to play together.
03:53And we created a game called Judo and Mermaid.
03:55Where he was mermaid.
03:58And he would put my mum's tights on his head.
04:01And he would sort of always be in distress.
04:03Being beat up by sort of fake characters.
04:05And then Judo would come in.
04:07In my mum's dressing gown.
04:08And obviously I liked Columbo as a kid.
04:10So I had celery sticking out of my mouth.
04:12Like I used to come in chewing celery.
04:14Then I would save the day.
04:17That would be the game.
04:19But again, I think that there's legs in this, Judo and Mermaid.
04:23It's a good title.
04:24It's great.
04:25It's like Dempsey and Makepeace.
04:26It is.
04:27Judo and Mermaid, you know.
04:28Must be in time.
04:29Can this be woven into season three?
04:31No.
04:32Seems a bit of a stretch, mate.
04:33I'll have a go.
04:34I think if anyone can pull it off, it's good.
04:35Yeah.
04:36If you don't have anything, you missed the big stuff.
04:37Let's have it right.
04:38So shout out to my brother, also known as Mermaid.
