Though David Tennant will go down as one of many best “Medical doctors” on tv, his most beloved function solely got here after he sought a second opinion.
The 2x Emmy winner revealed “there was positively a second the place I wasn’t” going to take the titular Time Lord within the BBC sequence Physician Who, during which he starred because the Tenth Physician from 2005 to 2010.
“About 48 hours after they requested me. I needed to go course of all the pieces that it meant,” he mentioned on David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, including: “I had an agent on the time who was like, ‘Don’t contact it. It’s not going to work.’”
Tennant famous it wasn’t his present agent who gave him the recommendation, however “a earlier good agent who’s since retired,” admitting “she didn’t name that appropriately.”
Following his three-season tenure because the Tenth Physician within the revived sequence, Tennant returned to the present because the Fourteenth Physician in 2022.
David Tennant in ‘Physician Who’ (BBC Studios)
BBC
Final 12 months, Russell T. Davies spoke to Deadline about returning to the sequence with its present Disney+ reboot, after he revived the sequence in 2005, following its authentic run from 1963 to 1989. With Ncuti Gatwa taking the lead as the present Fifteenth Physician, Davies defined he “wished the present to be enjoyable and a bit nuts.”
“I feel there’s an terrible lot of tv now, and I watch an terrible lot of tv, however I feel there’s a lot tv that [sticks too rigidly] to the three-act construction,” he mentioned. “You already know when there are 10 minutes left to go, when there’s going to be a serious occasion, or when the assassin goes to be caught. So, I feel it’s time for a present simply to interrupt these guidelines.”
