Danny Dyer reunited with Nick Love, who directed him in The Football Factory, for Marching Powder, a comedy that had its world premiere in Leicester Square.
Marching Powder, Nick Love’s comedy of addiction, football violence and marriage, held its world premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square in the West End on Tuesday 4 March 2025. Danny Dyer, its star, walked the carpet with his family.
Dyer was born in 1977 in Custom House, East London, and broke through as Moff in Human Traffic in 1999. Love cast him as Tommy Johnson in The Football Factory in 2004.
He went on to play Mick Carter in EastEnders from 2013 to 2022. He then won a BAFTA for the comedy Mr Bigstuff.
Love grew up on a council estate in south London and went to film school in Bournemouth. Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Business, The Firm and The Sweeney made him the chronicler of a particular London masculinity.
In the film, Dyer plays Jack Jones, ordered by a court into six weeks of couples’ therapy after a cocaine arrest at a football brawl.
Stephanie Leonidas plays his wife, Dani, and Geoff Bell and Calum MacNab complete the family. Dani Dyer and James Buckley were among the guests, and Altitude released the film in British and Irish cinemas on 7 March.