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