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David Tennant

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first: 2009-12-27
most recent: 2009-12-27
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“Its arm is cruel to ask me that. I'd really want them all. But right now, because I'm feeling sentimental, I'm going to slightly surprise myself, I'm going to take mention. Think I'd”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is that possible? That's absolutely possible. I have the seven series of the West Wing because it's after Doctor Who it's probably the best television there's ever been and there's lots of it again so that'll use up lots of hours.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what I would like if I'm allowed is some kind of solar powered DVD player system with the complete West Wing on. Oh, yeah.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is difficult, but I'm not a great rereader of stuff. So I figure I should take something that I've not read and frankly will never read unless I've got an absolute enforced exile. So I'm going to go for Proust, Alaric de Tom Perdu, because it's like a gazillion pages long. I'm never going to read it unless I'm trapped on a dead island. And then I can be one of the few people who's got through it and I can come back feeling quite smug.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This has possibly the finest lyric in the English language, which is how can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team. It's a brilliant song. It's got passion and it's written by Billy Bragg, who's kind of known as a protest singer, I guess, but actually it's his love songs that are. Just life expanding and life enhancing. And this is from him.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course. I'm quite good at solitary, and the last few years in particular have been so hectic that for a while I'll probably be okay, but I don't know how long it'll last. I've never been solitary for all that long. In practical terms, I won't be great. I won't be great at constructing a shelter out of palm fronds”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, she did, and it was lovely. It was lovely just because she was thrilled by her. I mean, at times it's slightly too thrilled. She'd be very willing to invite the Daily Mail Journalist and give them tea, which was at times slightly frustrating for me. It was trying to hold on to some kind of public enigma. But she was proud, and that was lovely.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess you'd have to ask them. But yeah, I think the family have enjoyed it, the slight craziness. They've also had to put up with a bit as well, for which I apologise, but it's been fun.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is from someone who's a stand up really, he does brilliant, incredibly intelligent comedy songs. The two times I've seen him live, he's finished the set with this. And it starts off as what seems to be a sort of funny song, but then just becomes a kind of a very simple, heartfelt, ballad to the importance of family, actually. And both times I've seen it, it's left me in floods of tears. I mean, it's not written about my family, but it makes you think about your own family. It makes you realize how important they are. I think that's something I come to terms with as I get older, just how important they are. And I feel my mum's gone now, but I feel very fortunate to have had the upbringing that I've had until I've had the family around me that I've had.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's ever been thus, to be honest, as you pointed out, they are see something I'd always had always been part of my life I'd done a couple of seasons there, several shows. So me going back there felt to myself like a natural thing to do, to go back to the RSC and to get to play that role there was something I aspired to long before I'd been involved in any television stuff. Now I suppose the RSE are maybe more interested in having me because they might sell more tickets because I've been in Doctor Who, but I don't think the RSE would have me just because of that.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't, particularly I think certain people were nervous of that. I think there was conversations being had at the Royal Shakespeare Company and elsewhere that there might be people sitting in the front row dressed as Cyberman, but that's perhaps not giving enough credit to the intelligence of Doctor Who fans, actually. I think people who like that show tend to be quite bright.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it may not entirely be a good thing. I don't know what he was suggesting. We'd need to see the review in contact, but it's not entirely a bad thing because there's a lot of hamlet that's very funny. And I think there's a lot of the man that is very entertaining because again he's so bright And he's the brightest person in the room, and he can run rings around everybody. And that's entertaining to witness, especially if, as an audience, you're enlisted on his side, which I think you are in the play.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This probably of all the songs on the list, this is the one that reminds me most of Doctor Who because I remember being played on set a lot, I remember people singing along to it a lot. This is also, as a result of Doctor Who, I found myself interviewing this band for the NME weirdly and realising that they were rather big fans and then we sort of became mates and there was a sense that doing Doctor Who had finally made me friends with the cool kids at school and it's the Kaiser chief.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know yet. I think I'll probably have to wait until the show starts transmitting with somebody that isn't me in it to really know how proprietorial I feel over it.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But people say, oh, I'd much rather have someone else. This is terrible. This is an awful choice. Of course that hard. And again, because I was invested in it as a child. It hurts your eight-year-old self, and that's quite hard to get over.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, absolutely, quite freely because I knew he was making Doctor Who at the same time. Right. So I was just quizzing him on how it was going and trying to get apart. I wasn't for a minute thinking oh he'll cast me as the next doctor And honestly, I wouldn't necessarily wanted them to either. I remember when he asked me to do it. It's a big deal because it's such a big thing. It has such a huge reach and impact in people's consciousness that inevitably it's very difficult to move away from. That's not me saying I want to, but you do feel like the first line of the obituary has been written, as I found”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't think everyone had a choice. I didn't think I had a chance. But they weren't looking for the kind of Lothario Casanova. They were looking for the puppy dog version of Casanova who wooed women through his jois de Vivre. I was thrilled to get the part because the script was so fantastic. There was something about Russell's dialogue that I just wanted to consume. And I suppose if anything got me the part, it was probably a kind of feel for his rhythm, which I just adore.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A beautiful piece of television. It was fantastic, well written by Russell T. Davis. That was when I first met him. And I suppose in a way became my extended audition for Doctor Who, although I didn't realize it at the time.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When people really became aware of you. I feel like to me, everything's always felt a bit more gradual, I think, when you're inside it than maybe it does subjectively.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What's next? I applied myself to thinking about this, and I thought if I'm on a desert island, I'd need to have something of the spoken word going on. And this is probably my favourite of all time. I remember listening to this on headphones on the train from Scotland to London and biting my fist and crying with laughter. So this would cheer me up and also just keep me sane on the desert island”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are walking through Chelsea or Manu doors? Absolutely. Absolutely. We had Richard Wilson in our play who was, you know, still is one of the biggest stars in the country. But yeah, you're in the green room and there's Michael Gambon over there and there's Judy Dentch over there. It's the most exciting thing”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think maybe I had bought my first flat actually by the time I was thirty. But maybe it wasn't earning a lot of money, but I was earning enough to get by. So I've never starved no particular need for more material goods.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What the butter saw Joe Orton at the National Theatre was the first time I'd worked at the National. So it was very exciting that they were coming to see that. I do remember my mum afterward saying, oh, I haven't seen that since you were a little boy. So I think they had a sense of humor about it.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I remember the night they were in. I'd sort of not really focused on that moment until just before it came. I thought, oh, this is suddenly a little embarrassing.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Rhapsody Nesbit was a big favorite of my dad's anyway. Right. And also because it was a big popular TV program. That was the first time I'd been in something that was part of popular culture, I suppose. Okay.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, this was it I was working as an actor. I was getting I think I got 200 quid a week, 180 quid a week I think it was and that was more money than I'd ever known it was oh it was sensational I couldn't have been happier I would still happily be working for them now”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know to be honest the Highland Islands of Scotland are always getting socialist theatre. They certainly were then.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think they were I mean I was just happy to have a job and we were in this little van doing one night stands all over Scotland. And I thought it was a great production.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this always makes me think of Scotland, and Glasgow in particular. It comes from the Alban Rain Town, which of course is about Glasgow. And this song makes me think about being a teenager in Glasgow. It's weird. There are very Scottish band, but they do sing with these kind of fake American accents, Deacon Blue and Dignity.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know I wasn't particularly shy, I just felt like I was busking all the time, like I was pretending to be much more grown up and much more worldly than I was. So yes, I caught up quite quickly. I mean, I imagine I was getting away with it. Possibly everyone in Dramsco was going to look at that wee boy. It's embarrassing. But he's all right, you know. He's trying hard.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well I was saying that my friend Allen and I used to sing that proclaimer song There's a verse in the middle this is the story of losing my virginity. And I was ever really discussing it, Alan just took that verse. You know, there was a lot of things I still had to discover when I went to drama school.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was the youngest in the school at the time I mean, I did this ridiculous audition. I did a bit of Hamlet at 17, not really knowing what it was about. And then I did a bit from Death of a Salesman. I played a 65-year-old man at 17. That must have been useless And I remember you get taken into your auditions by existing students. The girl was taking me in Uncle Helen Reeves, and I sat there as fair as people came up down the corridor and she was chatting to them all. But you go to pub tonight? We're doing this, doing that, thinking. Oh, this is the world where people go to pubs. This is what student life is like. I was a very green 16-year-old, very green 16-year-old. And when I went to drama school at seventeen, I was still a very green seventeen year old and did a lot of growing up over three years.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I certainly must have done as a child. When I now look back and think how unlikely it is that it all worked out. I think if I'd had a sense of that at eleven or twelve, I would have probably given up on the notion. I suppose I am driven, certainly, and I'm always looking for the next job and trying to better myself, I guess.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah I didn't know. They were quite keen. I think that maybe I get a teaching profession. Maybe you could be a drama teacher, just something that could pay the bills. They were quite right, but I was, you know, young and foolish and cavalier enough to play my own path.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Especially when you see the way my dad does it. They always have been to see every show that I've been in and been very supportive and hugely excited when it's been going well. So it's not that they were against it. The devil's work. Exactly. None of that. None of that. They just wanted me to make sure that I'd be able to feed myself.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, they did. They did, but I didn't really notice. But only because of that sensible. You know, it's a ridiculous profession to try and make a living at. My dad often talks about, had his...”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think people, I don't think that was going to take much for the listener to put two and two together there. This is the best concert I've ever been to was the Glasgow SECC and it was the House Martins. Their farewell tour just before they split up. I just loved the House Martins. I loved their kind of punk pop sensibility. I love their politics, but just great songs really. And this is what I point around the islands here.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Good question. I moved up through the bedrooms in the house as other members of the family left home and became grown up. So I started in the small room at the end and then moved up and ended up in the biggest room. Well, it depends when you're looking, I guess. If I was very small, there would certainly have been the Doctor Who poster, there would have been Lego, there would have been Star Wars toys, there would have been a big box of chocolate, my mum's mum, my granny used to flood us with bars of chocolate, and I used to keep them in a box. It must have been a very anal child, but I used to sort of ration myself and I used to keep a list of what was in the box and allow myself to sort of take one at a time and then score it off the list.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, you're both a good bit older. My brother's six years old and my sister's eight years older. That's quite a gap when you're six and they're 12 and 14. When I'm closer to Karen Blair now, actually probably than I was when I was a kid.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It felt fine. I mean, I didn't feel neglected by my parents. They were always there. Mum would be kind of. Cooking something for the people in the dining room and then coming through and making sure I was all right. So it always just felt like that was what life was like really.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was, I suppose she was a stay-home mum when we were all young. She did various charity things. But she was very much the minister's wife as well. And there was always people at the house. It was always Phil. Because a man is church property. So there was always somebody visiting. There was always some committee going on in the front room or there was somebody being entertained some night. And the house was always full of people.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do you know I didn't actually? I think because he's not, there was nothing embarrassing about him. He's quite a cool minister. Oh, was he? As cool as ministers can be, probably.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, though dad is not a high church type. He's not a dry minister. The religiosity of it wasn't rammed down our throats particularly. It's very, I kind of find your own way. But he was also the minister of the school, our primary school. He was the local minister who had come in every Wednesday.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I started getting into music, I suppose, around fourteen like you do, and I very quickly became perhaps something of an anarch about music. I remember that feeling of sitting in your bedroom playing records and thinking, music is the most important thing. It's so exciting in it. And it speaks to me in a way that's never spoken to anyone before. And then, you know, you start reading record mirror and you start becoming, I suppose, slightly geeky about it. I used to write down the top 40 in a little book and keep it every week. I don't know what I was doing that for. This is an artist who I got into. Rock stars of all time, and he was really a punk, so I kind of went back and started buying all his albums and just think he's one of the greatest musicians that has ever been Elvis Castello.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's only ridiculous because I don't really believe in that, I suppose. But I confess it does seem ridiculously serendipitous, but it's worked out like this.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You look too much of a beat type. Sorry. But I do believe I remember that. And I remember thinking that was extraordinary. And then quizzing my parents about what that was. And then very quickly getting that what an actor was and that these people were actors who told these stories. I'm just thinking that that sounded like the perfect job, which it is ready.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Or was it? Yeah. Well, certainly that was one of the things that inspired me because having checked up on this, I can only have been three. So maybe I saw a repeat of this or something, but I believe I remember seeing John Pertwee turning into Tom Baker.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'd watched that as a kid and thought that. What happened was Russell T. Davis and Julie Gardner, the other executive producer, sat me down and said, they knew that I was interested in the show. Because I'd been saying, can I get just a part in one episode? I just want to be in it. You know, it's a big thing. And they were very reluctant to ever take me up on that. I thought, oh, they clearly don't want me in this. But they said, well, come around and have a look. We've nearly finished some of the episodes for this first series. Come around and see what you think. And at the end of that little private screening is when they said, the thing is We might be looking for a new doctor, so it was the most extraordinary, unexpected night. They'd clearly stayed managed the whole thing. I didn't see it coming.”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I came aboard for Doctor Who before it had become because I knew I was taking over before the first series had gone out. So nobody really knew that it was going to work at all, this rebooted version of this show. So before that year even transmitted, they knew they were looking for somebody new”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It didn't bother me at all. I thought that's the way you want to write it. I'm very happy to do it that way. Never occurred to me that that was in any way a political issue until people started asking me about it”
2009-12-27 · Desert Island Discs · David Tennant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source