David Tennant as Macbeth for Tennant Tuesday
(or whatever day this post finds you)
In celebration of his 2024 Critics Circle Theatre Awards Best Shakespearean Performance win on March 25 2024
Photographer: Marc Brenner
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Behind the Scenes of The Star Beast - Part Three
Excerpt from Benjamin Cook’s Star Beast Set Visit in DWM 597:
Meanwhile on set, Catherine Tate is struggling to carry a stack of cardboard boxes through the market. To be fair, it’s a lofty stack. Her vision is impaired. She cannot see. “I think this is the reason I don’t drive,” she says. “I’ve got no brain for spacial awareness. How do I look?”
“Amazing,” says Yasmin Finney (known as Yaz), who plays Donna’s daughter, Rose. “This is certainly a moment,” she adds.
“Yes, it is, thank you,” says Catherine, dropping the boxes. None of this is in the script. “How can I make it look like I know what I’m doing?”
Here’s what’s scripted: “Hold on. Hold on! Let me help,” says the Doctor, running over. He takes the top box and sees who it is – oh no!
“Thank you very much,” says Donna. Very calmly, the Doctor puts the box back. “Oi! Do you mind?!” she says. “If you’re finished playing games, mister.”
Despite “the incredible scope” – Rachel’s words [Rachel Talalay, director] – of this Camden shoot, it’s characterful moments like this one, the Doctor and Donna meeting again after all these years, that make The Star Beast’s hearts beat. “Actors of this calibre don’t lose sight of that,” says Rachel, “and neither must I. Russell has written it so brilliantly – I adore Russell – so I have to make sure these moments work. They’re the emotional core of this episode, and this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the Doctor and Donna, back together! Setting eyes on each other again…”
“Would I keep hold of the box?” wonders David. “I suppose I’ve got to be polite somehow.”
“I think it’s that or he runs away,” agrees Rachel. “Yeah, sure. No, absolutely.”
“Still looking good,” Yaz whispers to Catherine, encouragingly, as the boxes are re-stacked.
“I know,” Catherine whispers back, “I’m feeling damn fine. I think it’s the shoes.” She has a question for Rachel: “When I say, ‘This stuff’s not mine, it’s hers. Oh, where’s she gone? Rose! ROSE!’, am I looking at him” – this is David – “or at the boxes, or looking around for Yaz?”
“Well…” replies Rachel (this is the director’s lot: fielding dozens of question every minute), “I think you’d be looking at David, but what feels more natural? And when you do the very loud ‘ROSE!’, is that working for you both?”
“It’s working for me,” says David. “It’s quite weird, she’s shouting it in my face –”
“Donna’s in her own world, isn’t she?” says Catherine. “I like that.”
“I like that too,” says David.
So does Rachel. “I totally trust you guys’ instincts.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t do that,” says Catherine, with a chortle.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who posted set photos
I’ll post additional parts in the coming months with the #whoBtsBeast tag. The full episode list is [ here ]
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Reblogging with the announcement cards:
DAVID TENNANT IS NOMINATED FOR TV BAFTA FOR GOOD OMENS!!! 🥳🥳🥳❤❤❤
ALSO NOMINATED IS PETER ANDERSON STUDIO THAT MADE THE OPENING TITLE!!! 😍
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David Tennant for Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2024
for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)
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It's this blog's 10th Birthday!
My how time flies! Thanks Tumblr for providing this place to hang out and share my fandom posts. Thanks to all of my fellow David Tennant/Doctor Who/Good Omens/Broadchurch/etc followers! It's been a fun 10 years.
To celebrate, here's a collection of this blog's top posts of all time (as compiled by Tumblr Note Counter). Cheers!
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1). David Tennant & Michael Sheen discuss their favorite (and least favorite) costumes from Good Omens - 54,746 notes - Jul 11 2019
2). We're on opposite sides/Crossing the Divide
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3). Crowley's Hairstyles/Looks down through the Ages
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4). Parallels - Good Omens Seasons One and Two
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5). Hippity-Hoppity Crowley
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6). Tenth Doctor in the Fifth Doctor's Coat
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7). Green Screen Special Effects in Good Omens
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8). Crowley's Hairstyles Behind-the-Scenes w/ Stevie Smith
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9). The Good Omens Love Fest Continues
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10). Interview Excerpts with Costume Designer Claire Anderson
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Turning it up to
11) I've Got a New Business
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It's that time of year again! Happy Pi Day!
Lesley Sharp:
“When Sky is copying people’s speech patterns, we both had to learn the square root of pi to two or three dozen decimal places, but it was almost impossible to keep up with David. His speech pattern, the rate at which he speaks, is phenomenally fast. Really, really quick. He learns pages and pages and pages. And the rate at which he speaks is the rate at which he thinks. Russell explained to me that David’s Doctor has a lot to say, because that’s David. He’s so bright. Isn’t that brilliant though? The things that Russell thinks about and then re-interprets - I think they’re both amazing.”
– from DWM #397
From the Midnight DVD Commentary (with David Tennant, Russell T. Davies, and director Alice Troughton):
David Tennant: We did rehearse the pi-number quite a lot…
Russell T. Davies: I remember you learning that the day after you got the script!
DT: Yeah, I just thought, “Oh, I see…”
RTD: You walked into the Sontaran read-though and just rattled off the square root of pi!
DT: I got the script the night before, and thought, “He’s given me the square root of pi to 30 decimal places… I’m gonna show him.”
RTD & Alice Troughton: [big laugh]
DT: …and I got up early, and learnt it over breakfast
RTD: And it was brilliant!
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