#david tennant article

[rainbowpopeworld]

David Tennant on returning as BAFTAs host:

(full article below)

by David Tennant

“I like presenting, without the pressure of it being my job. It’s a performance, like anything. I get to dabble in a very supported environment. When you see someone who really knows how to do it – Dermot O’Leary or Davina McCall, say – they absolutely know what those moments require. It’s a skill set that I can only aspire to. I can probably afford to do it one more time and then just get out, drop the mic and run.

Don’t look at me if anything goes wrong. For an event like this, there is such an extraordinary team of people who know exactly what they’re doing and how the whole thing works. I am very much a novice, because it’s not my world, so there’s not much expectation on me to figure out what happens next if something goes wrong. There’s a support network and structure that makes one feel very safe. One of the great advantages of hosting is that it’s all written down for me, so I don’t even have to learn the words. That is the bit about my day job that is most anxiety inducing, so it’s nice to have that removed.

continued below the cut

The BAFTAs are supposed to be kind. Last year we weren’t trying to roast people, but there was a joke about Cate Blanchett, and she looked a little bit annoyed, a little bit pissed off. And I remember going, “Oh God, no. I think you’re brilliant. I was just trying to be witty and make a point about how you’ve got lots of prizes, and we love you.” So, I think if I’ve learned anything, it’s probably that I’m not interested in picking fights or making anyone feel in any way uncomfortable. If I have a style, it’s only that.

I get star-struck, all the time. The bit that you can’t prepare for with hosting an awards show is when you’re actually up there, and the front five rows are the most famous people in the world, and they’re all sort of staring up at you with expectation and their own personal anxieties if they’re there to compete. That’s the bit that is a little bit thrilling… but also intimidating.

I don’t feel, internally, “famous”. I have an awareness of a lack of anonymity. Any sense of success is all shrouded in Scottish Presbyterianism. So none of it ever feels like you can fully enjoy it, or feel entirely relaxed, because that would be presumptuous. As a nation, we are always much more comfortable slagging ourselves off.

My parents were never against me being an actor. There’s an element of performance in being a minister in the pulpit so my dad [Tennant’s father was a Church of Scotland minister] definitely understood the impulse. But they just wanted, as parents do, to know that you were settled with a regular wage, and you could feed yourself, pay your rent, maybe have a house one day. I get that now completely as all my children seem to drift towards acting. I’m like, “I can’t tell you not to, but there are also other jobs!”

Being without my parents now is miserable. My mum never got to meet any of my kids, and that’s a bit heartbreaking, because she would have loved them. My dad got to meet all but one, and that – obviously – was wonderful, but their memories of him are fading…

My parenting style is different. Because my parents were very consistent and very solid, I never doubted for a second that they were absolutely committed to us without that ever being stated. That’s the bit that’s quite interesting, because in our house now, everyone’s saying "I love you" all the time. It’s lovely, and I love it, but it’s very foreign to me. I don’t remember that ever being said in our house growing up. I mean, I never doubted it was true but it was never said out loud.

I’m very protective of my children. When you know that it can be really horrible being “famous”, I think you try and protect your kids from the worst of it, while enjoying some of the privileges. As a parent, you try to have the best of both worlds, and inevitably you fail. But that, I suppose, is the aspiration, and that allows you to alleviate the guilt over the s**t [asterisks in original] stuff that visits.

My favourite role is… usually the one I’m most recently involved in. I’m fickle like that. So right now, it’s probably Macbeth [with Cush Jumbo]. It’s on at the Harold Pinter Theatre and it’s very alive to me at the moment. [which means now it’s Crowley😈]

I don’t know that acting roles change you. Obviously, while you’re working on a part, you can get quite involved in a lot of detail about a sort of person that you wouldn’t necessarily choose to spend time with, but that’s the job. You’re trying to understand the version of humanity that spat forth that particular psychology. It’s a puzzle.

It’s very hard to empathise with someone like Dennis Nilsen. Objectively, I don’t think I did [Tennant played the serial killer in the the 2020 drama Des]. But, subjectively, I could make sense of the decisions he made. You have to try and get inside that mindset. When Nilsen did something like murder, he thinks, "Well, I’m in this deep, I might as well keep going, because I can’t actually go back any more".

So I’m trying to unlock that – not to validate it, or be sympathetic towards it. But for the purposes of this piece of work, I have to inhabit that as truthfully as I can.

You don’t film something because you want a prize at the end of it. But then, if you’re suddenly put in the running for an award, then you find yourself wanting to win it and feeling like a big, massive loser if you don’t.

An award might represent a pinnacle in someone’s career, but ultimately, they don’t matter. It’s all a fabricated nonsense, and either you do work that you are proud of, or you don’t. From an industry point of view, they’re about generating attention to projects so that more people watch them, which is why you make anything – so that it connects with people, and they appreciate it. And then people who win get to make more things. They mean things professionally to people, but I don’t suppose they change their life. Still, they’re a lovely thing to receive – and it’s nicer to win one than to not…”

[yes-i-am-happyaspie]

We Stan David Tennent.

Tennent called transgender critics "a tiny bunch of little whining f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they'll all go away soon."

Source X

[mizgnomer]

David and Georgia Tennant

Photographed for The Telegraph by Kristina Varaksina

Promoting Staged Season 3

"The more time we spend together the more we get on" - [ link ]

[sbarrysncream]

I want to kiss this sad wet cat passionately

[tonydaddingham]

[aq2003]

HELP

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

As you might know I am not a native English speaker, I am Czech :) (apologies for all the mistakes I make), and the thing about the czech language is that we don't have any articles like a,a,the. Nope. We just don't. So when a czech person is trying to learn English suddenly they have to learn concept and wrap their head about something that they just don't know from their language. As you can guess, therefore we czechs just love the articles:

(especial apologies for all my mistakes with articles, it's one big guessing game for us and usually I just try to wing it :D (pun intended))

Anyway today I had an English lesson and we were discussing the difference between 'a/an', 'the', 'THE', and '-' and look who we had in the exercise! :)

The others in the group did not understand my excitement :( :D.

[princeloww]

searches for david tennant feet pics probably went up by 500% yesterday

[procrastiel]

A few articles about the love and chemistry between Michael Sheen and David Tennant

Financial Times article (pay to view)

Entertainment Weekly article (July 20th, 2023), where they specifically refer to the actors as a ‘celestial duo’ that will be reprising their roles as the characters Aziraphale and Crowley.

Movieweb article (July 27th, 2023)

Popverse article (September 15th, 2023), where their relationship is referred to as ‘bromance’ and ‘becoming the stuff of legends’. Keep dancing, you two!

Independent article (February 16th, 2024)

RadioTimes article (February 16th, 2024)

[consanguinitatum]

A smol treat....

Since I'm deep in the process of writing up my lengthy interviews with the developer and creator of David's 2001 unaired pilot, Only Human, for a long-form post (and waiting to get some of my other questions answered) - in the interim, I figured I'd pass along an adorable little tidbit I found. Enjoy!

...taken from the 3 Jul 2001 edition of The Scotsman

[ingravinoveritas]

Hiya! In case you haven't seen: https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/03/david-tennant-confirms-six-toes-right-foot-its-like-a-nubbin-22466225/

Nice little article. Ignore the toe, haha.

Hi there! Yes, I saw this article this morning, which seems to have come as part of a flurry of PR ahead of David hosting the BAFTAs again this month (the most bizarre of which is the Daily Fail, which starts off talking about the toes and then talks about the BAFTAs and then David and Georgia's marriage, for some reason). But I'll link to the Metro article for those who haven't read it...

I think my reaction to this was twofold. The first reaction I had is to wonder how this seemingly never came up before or was never noticed by anyone, because God knows we've seen David in plenty of roles where he is barefoot. Fortunately, some intrepid souls have spent the better part of the day searching for photographic evidence, and it seems that we do now have a picture of this "nubbin," as David put it. The photo used is from Richard II, so it looks like he may have had it then, but subsequently got it removed. Maybe.

(...Did I mention how weird this is as an anecdote for PR articles promoting the BAFTAs? Because it really is...)

The second reaction that I had to this was a feeling of gentle validation. I know that sounds strange, but I will explain: On both of my feet, my smallest toe (a baby toe that didn't grow in all the way) is second from the end, rather than on the end. It's a genetic/hereditary thing--my Grandma had the same thing--and completely harmless and painless, but I got bullied for it very badly all through school. I remember dreading going to Pool in elementary school because we had to change in the locker room, and the girls were merciless about it. I became so self-conscious that I stopped wearing flip-flops and didn't start again until I was much older.

In hindsight of course, it's a very little thing, but at the time it nearly consumed me, and was a part of why I began to feel suicidal at 10 years old. So hearing about David's "condition" was just sort of lovely, and gave me that nice feeling of "Oh cool, I'm not the only one with weird feet." Haha.

In any case, this is certainly an interesting (if unusual) start to BAFTAs promotion. Glad at least to see David is excited to host again and that he seems to have a good perspective on the whole thing...

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Yes it is horrifying. Get that away from me

[heartofalifer]

sometimes I lay at night thinking what exactly did daisy write in the description of alec hardy's tinder profile and what pictures did she use that made her think that could get women to swipe right on him. was it selfies? was it candid photos she took? was alec wearing that blue jumper on and reading a paper with his legs crossed in the photos? I need to know

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Giggle - Part Twelve

Excerpt from Benjamin Cook’s article in DWM 599:

Full disclosure: the drop to London far below would make me giddy if the helipad weren’t, in fact, on terra firma (well, almost – it’s five feet off the ground) and tucked away on Wolf Studios’ backlot, where mavity is on our side. The weather less so. Cardiff is experiencing a heatwave this week. It’s uncomfortably hot. “That’s why I didn’t wear any trousers?” Ncuti will joke tomorrow. “Now it all makes sense!” It’s tomorrow’s bi-generation that’s the talk of the set. In the Make-Up tent, David Tennant’s hair stylist, Steve Smith, is giving us the skinny. “It’s a hell of an introduction, having the new Doctor Who spend half the episode in his underpants,” he says, cheekily. “Bi-generation gives me the heebie-jeebies,” confesses make-up designer Claire Williams. “The costume is halved! Each have bits of it. Ncuti has a shirt and tie, and socks and shoes, but he’s in his boxers.” “Oh, we’ve had many conversations about how long his shirt is,” Russell tells me later. “While absolutely checking Ncuti’s happy – we’d have doubled the suit if he wanted.” “And then David,” continues Claire, “has an under-shirt, a waistcoat, and trousers, but he’s barefoot.” “We do see David’s feet,” confirms Steve. “Tonight we’re giving him a pedicure.” Meanwhile, might Ncuti be getting his legs waxed for the occasion? “I’ve just spent six weeks on Barbie,” he’ll tell me tomorrow. “I’m used to being waxed.” Is that a… yes, then? “He’s dying his buzz-cut back to black today,” adds Claire. It’s been a bleach-blonde do for the past 12 weeks.

For other posts in this set, please see the #whoBtsGiggle tag. The full episode list is [ here ]

[just-a-twinge-of-cosmic-angst]

Reading Doctor Who Magazine

This section absolutely killed me 😂

[tonydaddingham]

"can't see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government" is actually so funny to me because, in keeping with the transphobia brand, it punts itself past the point entirely. her race and gender literally plays no part in him and so many others thinking that she's an absolute dingbat that has no business being minister for equality when it's clearly too big a word or concept for her to understand