David Tennant, a former Doctor Who actor, admits that he is “a little bit jealous” of Ncuti Gatwa, the next doctor, who is “beginning on this amazing path.”
Tennant, who portrayed the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, continues, “Ncuti is amazing.” He is a wonderful, wonderful man who is full of beans and extraordinarily gifted. He has frightening talent, I mean.
I include myself in the group of Doctor Who fans who are excited about what is to come.
Tennant himself would be revisiting the role as part of the show’s 60th-anniversary festivities next year, the BBC revealed in May. He will be reunited with Catherine Tate, who played his companion Donna Noble, even though details are being kept under wraps.
And Tennant is now explaining to the BBC how the reunion happened. He admits that “it all kind of happened by accident.” And despite how bizarre that may sound, Covid was crucial.
He participated in Doctor Who: Lockdown!, a global series of online “watch-along” of earlier episodes created to pass the time during the pandemic, “when everyone was trapped in their house,” along with Tate and Russell T Davies, who oversaw the popular sci-fi series from 2005 to 2009.
Tennant says,
“That’s where it all started.
“Everyone would start watching a specific episode at a specific time and day, and some of the actors from those episodes were tweeting along.
He chuckles, “I don’t tweet, but my wife helped me.
Following that, “the three of them were just exchanging texts, and Catherine asked whether it wouldn’t be fun to do it again?”
Russell remarked,
“We could do a one-off, maybe they’d let us,” the author continues.
We said, “Yeah, it would be a laugh,” and then everything fell silent.
However, Davies revealed he was returning to direct Doctor Who last year. And a startling offer was made to Tennant and Tate.
Russell abruptly announced to us that he was taking over the performance once more and would be entirely in command. Would we please come and play a little bit for him? affirms Tennant.
I’m not sure if we gave him the idea to bring back Doctor Who, but we did think that if he was going to do it, we couldn’t let the kids enjoy all the pleasure.
But before he makes a comeback to television in Doctor Who, Tennant is making his theatrical debut after a five-year absence.
In CP Taylor’s play Good, about a fine, respectable German professor and his Jewish best buddy who later becomes a high-ranking Nazi, he will play the lead role the following month.
“Yes, there were certain monsters when you look back at historical events like what happened in Germany in the 1930s, but overall it was a nation full of people who were as complex, unique, and generally decent as most of us,” adds Tennant. So what took place?
The play was initially produced in 1981, and the Guardian’s Lyn Gardner criticized “the fatal lack of dramatic tension in a play in which quite a decent man slides under with no struggle at all” at a production at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2011.
Tennant, however, asserts that Goodwill poses challenging issues to the audience since doing so “kind of plonks you in the middle of this dreadful setting and it makes you wonder how you would handle yourself.”
“One likes to believe that they are the real, upright crusader type of guy. One is afraid of being the one who allows things to pass by. What am I doing about the horrible climate situation that we are facing, for example?
The play’s themes strike the director Dominic Cooke, an award-winning talent, as being incredibly ageless.
In this play, he claims, “you can relate with this very type of decent, amusing, lovely person and see him make concessions.” “Everyone wants to believe that they will be the one to speak up when something dreadful occurs.
However, very few of us truly do, in reality.
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