David Tennant talks about filming Good Omens and Doctor Who at the Globe
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David Tennant at Fan Expo Dallas 2024, 9.6.2024
Fan: Two of your most iconic roles, the Doctor and Crowley, they have scenes that span all of history, and I was just wondering, what was your favourite historical era to portray yourself in and why for both characters?
David: Well, both characters got to visit Shakespeare's Globe, and both times we got to film in Shakespeare's Globe, which exists in London - for anyone who wants to know - they rebuilt the theatre that Shakespeare would have performed in with his company of players, it's been rebuilt in the banks of the Thames, close towhere it would have been, and it's been rebuilt in as much historical detail as possible. And it now runs as a theatre. It's got a full cycle of plays. You can go to London tomorrow and se a show there. And as a set to film on it's the most extraordinary thing. It's completely realised. So you stand in this kind of circular place and you look around and you're in Elizabethan England. It's fantastic. So we got to film there on Doctor Who, which was wonderful, and we got to for Good Omens as well. So both those characters were filming those scenes which were supposed to take place in that time in the most extraordinary sense, that could never be... no production would be able to make it in such extraordinary detail. That was a real treat. So that was for both of those characters that would be... for me I'd say that was the most kind of immersive experience anyway.
"Do you want me to whisper to you what your name is?" River Song - aka, Alex Kingston - to the Thirteenth Doctor - aka Jodie Whittaker at Fan Expo Dallas | 12 June, 2024
IS EVERYONE ALIVE? (Jodie mouthing "YEAAA!" to the audience after Alex makes out with her ear, then saying to Alex "That was bloody brilliant" ahahaha)
Now THIS takes the cake. You can see the exact moment Alex hatches her plan, Jodie’s SCREAM as she falls enthusiastically into her trap, and Mandip oblivious as she thinks she’s about to get the tea of a lifetime. I'm off to sleep now. Night night.
Hiya again! I thought the Good Omens fandom would like to hear that David “is feeling very good about” season 3, and that he’s “got one more episode to read” and is “so far so very excited”!
(Thank you all for the advice, David was so so kind!)