{"id":958165,"date":"2026-05-14T00:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958165\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:36:14","slug":"rivals-season-2-behind-the-scenes-with-danny-dyer-aidan-turner-and-david-tennant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958165\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivals season 2: Behind the scenes with Danny Dyer, Aidan Turner and David Tennant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper would certainly have found it funny that while delivering this heartfelt tribute, Lisa is wearing a truly garish bright pink ski suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like the 80s sort of vomits on Valerie,&#8221; is how McGrillis describes her look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rehearsals over, the cast are called away for filming. As the temperature heads below freezing, powerful pyrotechnics light up the sky and Tennant does indeed stand in a bush looking furtive, as promised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are 11 books in Cooper&#8217;s Rutshire Chronicles series, from which Rivals is taken, so there is every chance the show will run and run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And before heading outside for his close-up, Dyer suggests that if there is a third series, there could be good news for his top lip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously we&#8217;re coming to the end of the 80s now, so if we go again, we&#8217;re sort of encroaching on the early 90s and hopefully this can come off,&#8221; he says, his gloved hand pointing to his moustache.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Honestly, I just want my head back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rivals series two will be on Disney+ from Friday, 15 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper would certainly have found it funny that while delivering this heartfelt tribute, Lisa is wearing a truly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-958165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116570134256034354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}