David Tennant left ‘embarrassed and on the floor’ after painful injury filming Rivals

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This Morning: It’s the phone hacking scandal which targeted celebrities, royals, victims of crime and ultimately brought down one of Britain’s most powerful tabloids. David Tennant was one of the many well-known faces who were victims of the hacking scandal, and now he’s helping retell the story in ITV’s new drama ‘Hack’. He’ll be revealing how his own personal experience helped him in the role, and why the series is already being compared to ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

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00:00I was launching myself onto a wooden bed at one point

00:04and unfortunately my knee collided with the bed frame

00:08in a rather unfortunate way.

00:09Not very sexy.

00:10No.

00:11Have you now got a stunt double for those moments, David?

00:13Because you can't afford to be buckling the tenant knees.

00:16They're too valuable.

00:17You never quite tell that you're going to fall over

00:19and embarrass yourself, can you?

00:21But you certainly don't want to do it

00:21when you're wearing a sort of modesty pouch for child sex.

00:24Was there an intimacy coach who was trying to protect the bed as well?

00:26Yeah, who ended up sort of getting the elastoplast out.

00:29Oh, no.

00:30That's not the sheets.

00:33Don't do that.

00:34Don't do the sheets.

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