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00:00Hi, hello everyone. Morning, morning, morning.
00:11Are you nervous? Are you not nervous? I might be a little bit nervous.
00:21David? Yeah? You should be nervous.
00:24Hi David. Nice to meet you, yes.
00:27Oh, thank you.
00:29Thanks very much.
00:32Welcome to this.
00:39Right, let's get started. Sophie, would you like to introduce us?
00:43Welcome to the assembly, our collective autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers.
00:49We are delighted to have you join us today.
00:52Our rules are, no subject is out of bounds.
00:55No question is at the table. And anything might happen. Please tell us who you are.
01:00My name is David.
01:02Also, you're David Tennant.
01:03I am, who are you?
01:04I'm Abbie A, actually.
01:05Abbie A, nice to meet you.
01:07And we're going to start with a question from Ali.
01:11Good to see you, David Tennant.
01:13Thanks, Ali.
01:14Do you believe in God?
01:16Oh.
01:17Oh.
01:18Wow.
01:19Wow.
01:20Some people do, other people's don't.
01:22That's a big one.
01:23OK.
01:24Because I was brought up in the church.
01:26Mm.
01:27And my dad was a minister in the church, so I went to church every Sunday.
01:30I went to Sunday school.
01:32At one point, I was a Sunday school teacher.
01:34Really?
01:35I know.
01:36That's nice.
01:37Yeah.
01:38So, I understand where it comes from, and I've certainly felt that in my time.
01:42The belief in something other.
01:44Mm-hm.
01:45But it's not where I currently am, no.
01:48OK, I'm just finding out.
01:49Thank you for your time, David.
01:50Thank you so much.
01:51Appreciate that, Ali.
01:52Thank you for remembering my name.
01:53We've got Takara with a question.
01:56How did it feel to be rejected from Taggart 16 times?
02:00Oh!
02:02You've done your research.
02:04I think I was the only Scottish actor who doesn't have Taggart on their CV.
02:09Scottish gritty crime drama.
02:11There's been a murder.
02:12There's been a murder.
02:13But it's got nothing to do with David Tennant.
02:17Lovely.
02:18Thank you, Takara.
02:19You're welcome.
02:20Hi, David Tennant.
02:21Nice to meet you.
02:22I'm Jacob.
02:23Hi, Jacob.
02:24Me and my family think you have amazing skin.
02:27Yeah!
02:28Thanks, Jacob.
02:29I would like to ask, what is your skincare regime?
02:34It's pretty basic, if I'm honest with you.
02:37I mean, a bit of moisturiser.
02:40That's it.
02:41What's your skincare routine?
02:43Well, I use sometimes cream on my skin.
02:47I put cream on my face when I'm having a shower.
02:52Before you get in?
02:53Well, actually, when I'm in the shower, I turn the water away from me and I put moisturiser sometimes.
03:00And then wash it off?
03:02Yeah, I mean, it sometimes helps because I get spots as a teenager.
03:06Right, yeah, yeah.
03:07Actually, I've just turned 20.
03:08Right.
03:09The spots are behind you now.
03:10Well, but I might still get spots now.
03:13Yeah, listen, I still get them.
03:15And I'm 702.
03:16Do you shave?
03:17Well, not right now.
03:20I mean, I have been known to shave.
03:23But, er, yeah.
03:25Next up, we have Essin.
03:28Erm...
03:34All the work you do for my community, it's...
03:39It's...
03:40It's amazing.
03:41My questions are based around that, so I hope that's OK.
03:43Of course.
03:44What made you want to start work, like, become an ally to the community?
03:49What prompted you to say, do you know what?
03:51This injustice has gone on long enough.
03:54Erm...
03:57When I was, erm...
04:01Oh, dear.
04:02Sorry.
04:03No, it's fine, it's good.
04:04It's good.
04:05It's good, it's important.
04:06Erm, when I was a teenager, there was this thing that Mrs Thatcher's government introduced
04:11called Section 28, which was...
04:13Oh, yeah.
04:14Yeah.
04:15Which was about stopping the promotion of homosexuality in schools.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Erm, which was a weird umbrella term, which was basically saying it was illegal to talk about
04:26being gay in school, or to suggest that that might be a normal way of behaving.
04:32Erm, we look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say.
04:41And I think the way the trans community is being demonised and othered...
04:45Yeah.
04:46..is exactly the same.
04:47We...
04:48Oh, sorry.
04:49No, no, listen.
04:50It's...
04:51It's become this kind of political football.
04:54Which exactly also leads on to my next question.
04:57These are very on the nose, I do apologise!
04:59Come on!
05:00Come on, we're in it now!
05:02Erm, JK Rowling.
05:03Right.
05:04How did you feel, like, when she called you out on social media?
05:08What is...
05:09I'm not...
05:10See, I do miss a lot of this, cos genuinely I'm not in there.
05:12Like, I have my views on her, but I just wanted to know, like, coming from an ally as
05:17yourself, I wanted to know how you thought of being called out like that.
05:21Erm, listen, JK Rowling's a wonderful author who's created brilliant stories and I wish her
05:26no ill will, but I...
05:28Of course.
05:29I hope that, erm, we can all, as a society, just let people be.
05:34But that's enough.
05:35Just get out of people's way.
05:37Don't be such a stick in the mud, honestly.
05:39Honestly!
05:40Lovely.
05:41OK, thank you, Essin.
05:42We've got a question from Elijah up next.
05:44Good luck, Elijah.
05:45Erm, before I answer my questions, I just want to say your jumper really makes me laugh.
05:52It just says college.
05:53It does.
05:54It just makes me really laugh a lot.
05:56Yeah.
05:57What...what made you...what made you see that jumper and be like, oh, OK, I can wear this.
06:05This makes sense.
06:07That's a very good...that's quite a deep question.
06:10Why do we see things and think that relates to me?
06:13That is my sort of style.
06:15That is...I wish I had a...I wish I had a clever and concise answer for you.
06:20It's just really funny that you saw a jumper and you were like, college, me.
06:23I know.
06:24I know.
06:25What does that say about my...my arrested development?
06:27Are you tired of people always associating you with Doctor Who?
06:31No.
06:32It's a very lovely thing to be associated with.
06:35And you're also aware, when you take on something like Doctor Who, that it will be with you for the rest of your life.
06:40I'm very proud of it and very happy that it's something that I get to represent.
06:45So, very, very lucky.
06:50OK, lovely.
06:51Thank you, Elijah.
06:52Luke?
06:53I was obsessed with watching Doctor Who when I was very young, from a young age.
06:57I watched it with my grandad.
06:58Oh, yeah?
06:59God bless him.
07:01Oh, yeah.
07:02It was hurtful when I found out that he had three strokes.
07:07The last one...
07:08Oh, I'm sorry.
07:10But I know for a fact he's always in my heart, but I know where he is.
07:14Yeah.
07:15In my heart, even at night, I can speak to him at night.
07:18Nice.
07:19That's nice.
07:20I'm very proud that Doctor Who was part of the memory of you and your grandad.
07:22It was.
07:23As long as you're here.
07:24Lovely.
07:25Thank you, Luke.
07:27Now, Luca's going to do a performance for us.
07:29Oh, fantastic.
07:30And because you've been doing Macbeth, he'd like to do a scene from the play with you.
07:33Oh, my goodness, Luca.
07:34Right?
07:35Okay.
07:36Oh, go on.
07:37What scene are we doing?
07:38Don't I know?
07:39I'll just try and catch up.
07:40A heavy summons, lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep.
07:43Merciful powers, restraining me, the cursed force, then nature gives way to and repose.
07:48Give me my sword.
07:49Who's there?
07:53I can't remember what bit that is.
07:57You're so intense, Luke, it's brilliant.
07:59It's act two, scene one, if that gives you any indication at all.
08:02A friend!
08:03What?
08:04Sir?
08:05Not yet at rest?
08:06The King's abed.
08:07He have been in unusual pleasure, and sent forth great largest to your officers.
08:11At this time when he greets your wife with all, by the name of most kind hostess, and
08:15shut up, in measureless content.
08:17Being unprepared, our hospitality was servant to defect, which else should free Everod.
08:22All's well.
08:23I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters.
08:26To you they have showed some truth?
08:28I think none of them.
08:30Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, we would spend it in some words upon that
08:34business.
08:35At your kindest leisure.
08:37If you shall cleave to my consent, when tis, it shall make honour for you.
08:43So I lose none in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchise and allegiance
08:47clear.
08:48I shall be counselled.
08:50Good repose the world.
08:51Thanks, sir.
08:52The light to you.
08:54Nice.
08:55Very intense.
08:56That was brilliant.
08:57That was brilliant.
08:59You also did bits that we've cut, so I was having to really listen hard.
09:07Yeah, I'm a fan of extended versions.
09:09Yeah, quite right too.
09:10Right, okay.
09:11Cameron, you're up next.
09:14Someone you've worked with a friend has been cancelled for some quite serious allegations.
09:19How has that affected you?
09:22Who are we talking about here?
09:25He worked on The Good Omens and that's been stopped.
09:29And how has it affected you?
09:31We're doing Good Omens again.
09:33We're going back to do the final, we're doing a finale.
09:37There's been a slight rejig with the personnel.
09:42Just, but we still get to tell that story, which I think would have been very difficult
09:46to leave it on a cliffhanger, I think.
09:48So I'm glad that's been worked out.
10:01So you're up next then Harry.
10:02Hello David, how are you?
10:04I'm good, how are you?
10:05It's good to see you.
10:06It's nice to be here.
10:07What was it like when you became the 10th Doctor Who?
10:10Yeah, 10th Doctor Who.
10:12Wow.
10:13I'd watched that show all my life.
10:15I grew up with it.
10:16I had posters on my wall.
10:18I met Tom Baker, who was one of the earlier Doctor Who's.
10:20Ah, the fourth Doctor Who.
10:21Exactly, number four.
10:22He signed my poster when I was about, I don't know, eight, nine.
10:25It's a very happy thing, even if you're not a fan of Doctor Who.
10:29Very few people feel negatively towards it, as far as I can do.
10:32I mean, you know, I'm now inviting people to get online and tell me how rubbish it is.
10:38But they can fuck off.
10:44We can do that.
10:47We can sort that out.
10:50Do you know the Doctor Who's already in order?
10:52Do you?
10:53I do indeed.
10:54Let's take them in turns.
10:55You do one, I'll do two.
10:56First Doctor, William Hartnell.
10:58Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.
10:59Third Doctor, John Pertwee.
11:01Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker signed my poster.
11:04Yeah.
11:06Fifth Doctor Who, Peter Davison.
11:07My father-in-law.
11:08That's weird.
11:10Yeah.
11:11Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker.
11:12Sylvester McCoy.
11:13Paul McGann.
11:14Christopher Eccleson.
11:15Tenth Doctor...
11:17Oh, that's it.
11:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:19Matt Smith.
11:20Peter Capaldi.
11:21Jodie Whittaker.
11:22Fourteenth Doctor...
11:23Who was that again?
11:24You!
11:25And fifteenth Doctor, Shooty Gap.
11:27There you go.
11:28Ten points.
11:29Nice to meet you, David.
11:30Pleasure.
11:31You're a good man.
11:32You are a good man.
11:33What Harry Potter?
11:34How many?
11:35How many Harry Potters are there?
11:36Yeah.
11:37It's just the one, right?
11:38Okay.
11:39Next up, Sammy's going to ask a question.
11:41How did we feel when we lost our parents?
11:45Yeah.
11:46How did I feel when I lost my parents?
11:47Devastating.
11:48It's devastating.
11:49Yeah.
11:50They both died younger than they should.
11:52My mum was 67, which is not nearly old enough.
11:55Yeah.
11:56And she had cancer and it was horrible.
11:58Aw.
11:59And I remember she got ill and then we thought she got better.
12:04So you kind of think, oh, we dodged that.
12:07Yeah.
12:08And then a few months later it came back again and then it was evident that this time it wasn't
12:13going away.
12:14Yeah.
12:15And it's horrid.
12:16Have you lost your parents?
12:18Mum.
12:19You've lost your mum.
12:20It's hard.
12:21It's hard, isn't it?
12:22It is.
12:23You know it's coming.
12:24Yeah.
12:25From when you're a kid you know it's coming, but it still feels impossible to conceive.
12:29I miss my parents as well.
12:30Yeah.
12:31It was half me.
12:32Yeah.
12:33So I'd have said why.
12:34Because then you're sort of stuck, aren't you?
12:35You're stuck.
12:36Yeah.
12:37You're an orphan.
12:38You're next up.
12:41We've got Sophie.
12:42Hi, Sophie.
12:43Hello.
12:44Hi.
12:45What are you secretly proud of but have never taught anyone about until now?
12:51Shall I tell you a secret?
12:54When we're recording this, it's about to be my wife's 40th birthday.
12:57A few years ago she got my name tattooed on her.
13:01Wow.
13:02And she has been banging on at me about getting a tattoo to match.
13:07Oh.
13:08Okay.
13:09Have you?
13:10Don't like it.
13:11It's never been something I've wanted to do.
13:12I don't like needles and I was really...
13:13Okay.
13:14But because it's her 40th birthday, I just had that done.
13:19Wow.
13:20Which is her initial.
13:21Okay.
13:22I've been going around with a bandage on my wrist at home for the last few days so she doesn't know.
13:25No.
13:26No.
13:27So that I can reveal it as a birthday present.
13:29Oh.
13:30Oh, that's so sweet.
13:31So I'm quite proud that I managed to sit and have that done without screaming or passing out.
13:36Oh.
13:37And that for the past few days I've managed to pretend it hasn't happened yet.
13:40So that's something I'm very proud of that I haven't told anyone about before this very moment.
13:44And I haven't even told my wife yet.
13:46Um, second question.
13:48Madonna is one of your favourite artists.
13:50I challenge you to a Vogue dance-off.
13:52Woo!
13:53Oh, a dance-off!
13:54Oh, a dance-off!
13:55A dance-off!
13:56Oh, no!
13:57I don't know where to begin!
13:59To Vogue, when you do all that.
14:00Yeah.
14:01Yeah.
14:02Come on, then.
14:03What are we going to do?
14:04How does this work?
14:05How does this work?
14:06So you start off like this.
14:07This.
14:08Yeah.
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14:27And that.
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14:32And that.
14:33Oh!
14:34Oh, geez.
14:35Nice.
14:36Well done.
14:37Wow.
14:40You're being very encouraging.
14:41I really appreciate it.
14:43a question from Adam. Hi Adam. Oh very good David. Hi. Hi. I'm also Scottish as well. Oh great.
14:51You're a vision in purple. Oh well. What was it like to being in films like Postman Pat? Oh
14:59Postman Pat was great. Oh I know. I was the baddie really in that. I was the voice of the baddie in
15:05that. Oh I know. It was a great thing to be involved in and a great job. I know. And Stephen
15:10Mangan who plays Postman Pat is a friend of mine so it was lovely to be in a film with him too.
15:14Oh that's really cool. I saw Stephen Mangan at the Lyric Theatre. Did you? When I went to a pantomime
15:19and I was also in the toilet at the same time as him at the Lyric I remember as well. Right. Sweet. Oh that's really cool. Yeah.
15:26It's an honour to meet you. Oh it's so nice to meet you. Thank you very much. Thank you for your question. Lovely.
15:31Thank you Adam. Up next we've got Jelani with a question.
15:37When were you most scared?
15:40Well I mean probably when when when one of my kids was sick and yeah and there was a moment
15:49where it looked quite scary and quite serious. In that moment when you suddenly look at the
15:54possibility of something happening to one of your kids that's that's that's a sort of inconceivable
16:01horror yeah. That's not a very cheery answer but it's you know I think those are those life
16:08moments that you kind of you don't really ever forget.
16:15And now we're gonna come to Charlotte.
16:16Just like other people on the spectrum I suffer with anxiety. It becomes all-consuming for me.
16:25Have you ever struggled with your wellbeing?
16:29I definitely have struggled and I remember when I first when I did Hamlet the very first public performance of that
16:38I was pretty overwhelmed by I guess the expectation the size of it you know just the amount of words to remember and
16:45that was probably the most scared I've ever been. I was on the floor of my dressing room in the fetal position when the
16:54wonderful woman called Linda Arnley she came in to sort of wish me luck for the first performance and found me in the fetal position on the floor.
17:02Oh I did. And but for Linda Arnley that night who sort of talked me through made me calm helped me gave me some breathing exercises.
17:09I may never have gone on stage that night and my the rest of my life might have been very different.
17:13So I always look back on that moment as a as a you know those sort of crossroads where things could have gone either way.
17:19Yes.
17:20Linda Arnley getting me off the floor that night and then from then on each night just got that little bit easier.
17:26And now we have some music that we think you're really going to enjoy. Wow.
17:30I definitely want to work with you again.
17:32Well let's do it. Let's make it happen.
17:34Feel more.
17:35Yeah. Okay.
17:37Anything or we can do Shakespeare. Up to you.
17:39Listen. Everything is available to us.
17:41Yes.
17:42Yeah.
17:43But I definitely want to work with you again.
17:44Good. Thank you.
17:46Cool.
17:47That's how you get it done.
17:50My heart was broken. My heart was broken. Sorrow. Sorrow. Sorrow. Sorrow. My heart was broken.
18:17My heart was broken
18:20He saw it, he claimed it
18:24He touched it, he saved it
18:29While I'm with my room on this earth
18:35I will be with you
18:42While the chief of sunshine on me
18:50I'll thank him for his work
18:55And your birth and my birth
18:59Yeah, yeah, yeah
19:12My heart was broken
19:36My heart was broken
19:41So long, so long
19:44So long, so long
19:48My heart was broken
19:51My heart was broken
19:55He saw it, he claimed it
19:59He touched it, he saved it
20:03While I'm with my heart
20:07I will be with you
20:17While the chief of sunshine on me
20:24I'll thank him for his work
20:28And your birth and my birth
20:32Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
20:38I'll thank him for his work
20:43I'll thank him, and I'll thank him
20:45Yeah, yeah
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