Success should always be considered in relation to the mistaken steps that lead to it. Or in other words, every win should be judged by all of the failures that pre-dated it, and in Run For Your Wife, Danny Dyer can reasonably claim to have made the biggest failure of the year. For some reason, someone thought that putting Dyer alongside Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud fame, and Denise Van Outen of The Big Breakfast fame would be a good idea - as if an actor of his calibre would be able to drag two of Britain's least convincing actresses out of the quagmire. Sadly, but inevitably, Dyer was hamstrung badly by Harding's perilous inability to convincingly play a human being and a script that felt like it was rejected in the earliest days by the fabled room of chimps on typewriters. But the very fact that Dyer has been able to shrug off the embarrassment of the film making less than £800 on its opening weekend proves his worthiness for the BAFTA. How much more of a "rising star" can you get than one who was in the very worst film of the last 13 years? He can only go up from that diabolical disaster, and his step up to prime time soap opera stardom should be considered as an intergalactic leap between planets in the context of how bad Run For Your Wife Was. If Adam Deacon and Noel Clarke can win the award for basically just playing thugs with hearts of gold, and Kristen Stewart can win despite the glaringly obvious obstacle of being Kristen Stewart, that meteoric rise back to fame and glory should see Dyer blaze to victory without too much expended effort at the debating stage. Who do you think will win BAFTA's Rising Star of 2014 Award? Share your own picks below.
