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David Tennant is synonymous with Doctor Who, having played the Time Lord in two separate stints, first from 2005 to 2010 and later as part of the show's 60th anniversary celebrations in 2023.
If he had listened to his agent's advice, however, he never would have stepped foot in the TARDIS in the first place.
As revealed during a special episode of David Tennant Does a Podcast With… (this time led by wife and one-time Doctor Who co-star Georgia Tennant), he mulled over the decision to play the Tenth Doctor – even if it was obvious to others that he was about to go whizzing across time and space.
"Well, maybe I was clearly going to do it. But there was definitely a moment where I wasn’t," David Tennant revealed.
He added, "I had an agent at the time who was like, ‘Don't touch it. It's not going to work. Not my current agent. A previous brilliant agent who's since retired, but she didn't call that correctly."
Speaking to GamesRadar+, Sethu revealed that two companion actors – Millie Gibson and Mandip Gill – reached out to give some advice on appearing in Doctor Who.
