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‘Then came the call for Dream
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Team, which I think was a defining
moment,’ he explains. After staying
in Dream Team for three years (as
a character who was originally
written for only two episodes), he
went on to play Tremaine Gidigbi
in Footballers’ Wives, acting
alongside screen queen Joan
Collins, and most recently with
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
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Comedy-drama
Fast forward a few years and
all three actors find themselves
together at last in Angie Le Mar’s
comedy-drama, The Brothers – a
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story about three close friends,
Michael (Harvey), Richard (Chucky)
and Kenny (Jason) whose deep
friendships are tested through life,
love and laughter.
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Originally written as a play for
radio, The Brothers success has
enabled it to move into theatre
(there was a successful run at
the Hackney Empire) and now
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television – airing exclusively on
MTV Base next month.
Harvey joined the cast at a
time when he was not the nation’s
favourite because of his much
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publicized affair with Javine. It
would have been easy for him to
shy away and become a distant
memory in showbiz.
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‘I was going through one of the
a fan of The Six Million Dollar Man a eureka moment. That same year I toughest times of my life, with my
and The A-Team,’ he tells me. ‘I went and studied performing arts; I business being out there and
would always act out scenes, but I was so driven and then it was time everyone having an opinion on
didn’t harbour any ambitions to be to venture into the world. ’ it. But I don’t let people stop my
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an actor at that time, I was more For the next three years Chucky work; before my daughter was
into athletics.’ would throw himself into any form born I would have said that was
Performing arts
“When you’ve shown your heart and
Chucky’s calling would come
several years later, at the age of
soul for an audition and your agent
eighteen. ‘A friend and I were
says it didn’t work out – that’s a killer”
playing about with a video camera
and we concocted this scene. At
that point in my life I wasn’t sure of performing arts: low budget simply down to self-belief and
what I was going to pursue theatre productions, commercials, persistence.’ And the opinions of
career-wise; but doing that was like music videos and modelling. the rest of the cast? ‘They were
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