“She didn’t call that correctly, as it turns out.”
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David Tennantis reflecting on iffy career advice from a former agent.
In a new episode of his podcastDavid Tennant Does a Podcast With…, theBroadchurchstar discussed joiningDoctor Whoin 2005.
David Tennant as the tenth Doctor on ‘Doctor Who’.Credit:Adrian Rogers/BBC
“And I had an agent at the time that was like, ‘Don’t touch it.
It’s not gonna work.’
Not my current agent, a previous, brilliant agent who’s since retired.”
David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor in the 2023 ‘Doctor Who’ special ‘The Star Beast’.Alistair Heap/BBC
“She said, ‘It’s not been on yet.
It’s not gonna work.
You don’t wanna have that hung round your neck,'” Tennant remembered.
“She didn’t call that correctly, as it turns out.”
“She was battle-hardened, and that was really helpful.
I learnt a lot from her about how to be, and not to sort of lose yourself.
David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor in the 2023 ‘Doctor Who’ special ‘The Star Beast’.Alistair Heap/BBC
But Billie at the time was only 21 or something!”
Listen to the full podcast episode above.
