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These geezers met on the set of Football Factory and it was a kind of love at first sight. Since then they've teamed up on The Business, Fila ad campaigns and now a new film called City Rats. Danny Walker gets lasts from Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan... Image by James Pearson-Howes

What did you think of Tamer when you first met [Hassan is nowhere to be seen]?
Danny Dyer: I thought he was a big c*nt! Oh, he’s here now.

[Tamer walks in from the bathroom with a distressed look on his face] Last time you dropped the kids off at the pool?
Tamer: [Laughs] I bloody had a tandoori last night.
D: What, did you have a pony? [Room laughs]. So yeah I thought he was a big c*nt and he had a whistle on. I was auditioning and he already had a part in it and I was in the boozer and he came in.
T: I'd just been at court. I couldn't believe you had to audition - that role was made for you.

And your first impression of Danny, Tamer?
T: I was in a little bit of awe of him but we've been mates ever since; except the time when he called me 'a w*nker' and I had to bash the c*nt up!

Last time you did a job that didn’t have you playing a ‘geezer’?
T: I did an episode of Casualty that won a BAFTA. I’d rather do something different than sit around doing nothing. Would you do Casualty?
D: Erm. Not now I wouldn’t. I remember I used to go up for it all the time and I never got a part in the c*nt.
T: I went up for a film with him and Ray Winstone the other day to play a Turkish agent and they gave it to a northerner!
D: No disrespect to the geezer than done it, but he was sh*t. Last time you both worked with Noel Clarke?
D: Adulthood. When I read it I couldn’t understand some of the dialogue, the way these youngsters speak... I like what Noel Clarke has done and I thought I’d give him a bit of support.
T: I did West LDN 10 with him.

Last time you worked together?
D: On a film called City Rats, it’s quite dark. I went method on it.
T: He had a massive beard and cold sores [laughs]. It’s a cross between 21 Grams and a British version of Crash.

Last time you read a rubbish script?
D: I just read a pile of sh*t called Spunk Bubble.

Danny, last time Tamer let you down?
D: He does it all the time.
T: Don’t start me off cos I’ll tell ‘em.

[The two speak to each other for five unprintable minutes]... Tamer?
T: He’s never let me down. I love him.

When was the last time he saved your arse?
T: Every week he saves me with the wife [laughs]. My wife loves him, his wife hates me.

Last time you listened to the radio and thought ‘What is all this sh*t’?
D: Talk Sport. That f*cking Terry Alderton. He’s doing some false cockney impression of me on the Internet.
T: I think it’s hilarious [laughs].
D: Oh, it is funny but he’s, he’s, he’s... alright.

Last pair of trainers you bought?
D: Ah Fila vintage. I love ‘em.
T: And me Fila leather jacket [grabs leather jacket].

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