It’s protected to say that David Tennant is without doubt one of the most adored actors to have performed Physician Who, however earlier than he took the function, his agent was insistent that it might be an enormous mistake.
On the most recent episode of David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, the actor spoke along with his spouse, Georgia Tennant, concerning the starting of his Physician Who profession. “Things aren’t working out with [ninth Doctor] Christopher Eccleston, something goes wrong there, they’re looking for a new Doctor. ‘Doctor Who’ hasn’t even been on yet though, so we don’t know if this is going to be a hit or a damn squib,” Georgia Tennant stated. “However they arrive to you, they kind of lure you to the home with, ‘Come watch a bit of an episode.’ You go alongside after which they go, ‘And guess what! Do you want to play it?’ And also you faux to consider it for like a day or one thing.“
Whereas David Tennant agreed that he was “clearly going to do it,” he admitted that there was a second when it “definitely” wasn’t going to occur. “I sort of had to process everything that it meant, and I had an agent at the time that was like, ‘Don’t touch it, it’s not going to work,’” he stated. “Not my present agent, a earlier good agent who’s since retired, however she didn’t name that accurately because it seems. She stated, ‘It’s not going to work, you don’t need to have that hung round your neck.’“
To be truthful to Tennant’s agent, it should have appeared like a dangerous transfer on the time. The sci-fi sequence had been off the air for over fifteen years, and the primary season of the revival had but to air.
Tennant performed the Tenth Physician over the course of three seasons and a handful of specials. He additionally returned in The Day of the Physician alongside Matt Smith and even performed the Fourteenth Physician in three specials in 2023. Tennant will doubtless all the time be remembered because the Physician, and adjusting to that degree of fame was difficult. “It takes a bit of getting used to, for sure,” Tennant defined. “All of the sudden, you’ve received to determine what the principles are for your self and there’s probably not anybody that can assist you or train you … It’s simply that sense of all of it getting away from you in a short time. At its worst, that’s fairly panic-inducing since you simply really feel uncovered, you simply really feel very susceptible.“
