Interview with Tyger Drew-Honey

What’s changed for Dylan since the last time we saw him?

We last saw Dylan at Christmas, where he was desperately trying to impress Zoe, who he is whipped by, and for the time being that seems to have worked. His relationship with Zoe is still on and off. Dylan has just got into university doing Media Studies and actually I think Dylan would love that as there is a 7:1 girl/boy ratio there! He went on a lads’ holiday in the summer to Magaluf and got very drunk every night spending his dad’s lawyer money. Now he’s gone off to university trying to do something!

Do you think that Ken and Dylan are more alike than they would care to admit?

I personally don’t think that Ken and Dylan are particularly alike. I think that Ken is very intelligent and he’s got a very good job and you have to be very intelligent to do that, whereas Dylan has a few moments in series three where there are some very obvious things that he misses and says some stupid things. Also I think that Ken is quite a nice person. When he first meets Dale, he is a bit like, “who is this person coming into my house?” but by the end of series two there is a very lovely relationship between Dale and Ken. I think that Dylan is still a lot harder to get any form of nicety out of, and is a lot surlier.

Is there something that the teenage audience can particularly relate to with Dylan?

Dylan is not a particularly nice piece of work and at the end of the day there are moments when you do see his sweet side and you do know that deep down he is a good person. One of the main things that makes Dylan funny is that he is so outrageously rude to his parents when they have annoyed him, which is quite relatable for a lot of teenagers when their parents say they can’t do something or you have to do this/you have to do that.

Have there been any scenes or moments on set that have been a highlight for you?

It wasn’t really on set – it was off set in the make-up room. One of the make-up artists did some great artwork on the mirrors and drew the makeup artist and one day when everyone was on set I changed all the pictures so all of them were in their underwear and not one of them knew who it was.