Overview

• In a July Radio Times interview, Dyer said the honour “isn’t for me” and pledged to refuse a knighthood to maintain his anti-establishment stance.
• He pointed to Nobel laureate Harold Pinter—who turned down a knighthood in 1996—as his guiding example for rejecting the accolade.
• Dyer joked he was the “cheaper version” of Sir Gary Oldman—knighted in this year’s Birthday Honours—when he secured the lead in Three Quick Breaths.
• In Three Quick Breaths, Dyer portrays a lone football agent in Ireland racing to secure one final payoff before reputations unravel.
• Filming is underway on the second series of Disney’s Rivals as he continues to diversify beyond his 2013–2022 tenure on EastEnders.