Cameron Diaz: I still eat french fries!

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9SGyiC6K-yqIYT0ErJopYE4pVkLjKeq5WZZj4KslVJ2OOsgzTO35r_LpzFi0khQ0m5KPYEevPKcgVCLgp_O59f4vpW-OBs9Dn4Kzf1qAqXMsLkLqMo7tFO_k6Vvx1bGSKPFwT_G-/s1600/Cameron+Diaz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9SGyiC6K-yqIYT0ErJopYE4pVkLjKeq5WZZj4KslVJ2OOsgzTO35r_LpzFi0khQ0m5KPYEevPKcgVCLgp_O59f4vpW-OBs9Dn4Kzf1qAqXMsLkLqMo7tFO_k6Vvx1bGSKPFwT_G-/s1600/Cameron+Diaz.jpg" /></a></div> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* boton */ google_ad_slot = "4392536701"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Cameron%20Diaz">Cameron Diaz</a> has written a book about self-help and self-love The Body Book - "The Book of the body". <br /> <br /> Under the promotional campaign 41-year-old actress gave an interview with People: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> I still eat fries. Discipline - it is not self-deprivation. I once lived on low-grade fast food. I saw tons of soda and constantly eating junk and oily food. I ate until until I hurt myself. I just lay there thinking, "Why did I do it?" </blockquote><br /> Cameron admitted that her life changed when a star "Masks" decided to give up sweets and fast food: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> These things just are not for digestion. If you understand how your body works, you can make the right choices. I suffered from severe acne, I had a small white pustules. Then I gave up dairy products, and my skin is completely cleared. </blockquote><br /> Next Diaz shared this recipe of a favorite dish: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Tasty oatmeal - the most favorite thing for me. I cook it to a state of semi - al dente. Add caramelized leeks, green vegetables and Japanese citrus sauce based. </blockquote><br /> As for fitness, then Diaz would like to train more frequently: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Once I begin to seriously pursue. At least while I'm working, then physically active all day. The cast is very energy-intensive work! </blockquote><br /> Not afraid whether old actress? <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> I love getting older. It's part of life. If you're not getting older, you're dead! </blockquote><br />Cameron take note of advice and cook oatmeal brand. And you?<br /><br /><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- biner3 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="7346003106"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /><br />

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VIDEO: David Tennant, Matt Smith And Steven Moffat On Returning Doctors

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxZTVjreG_c9LGAf3DkLm5i4BsYvUeHLgoRzjn7H-L6G8VorgWZxmNw0trhZM6j0SAyofcng6OJnQhJO1cGB7IyIA369bodm8jhap5mPTHwuiB6EYhAjNMnsoP3FCpv1UgSr4iDwtTzid/s1600/BBCAint01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxZTVjreG_c9LGAf3DkLm5i4BsYvUeHLgoRzjn7H-L6G8VorgWZxmNw0trhZM6j0SAyofcng6OJnQhJO1cGB7IyIA369bodm8jhap5mPTHwuiB6EYhAjNMnsoP3FCpv1UgSr4iDwtTzid/s640/BBCAint01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In an exclusive interview with BBC America, David Tennant, Matt Smith and Steven Moffat have spoken about the tradition of past Doctors returning to the show</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That’s peculiar to Doctor Who…” David Tennant says, “that multiple versions of this character can exist alongside each other.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David also reveals that Steven Moffat had been planning a multi-Doctor episode for the 50^th Anniversary for at least two years, and Matt Smith concurs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I knew for a while that that was the plan,” claims Matt, but adds, “I didn’t know which Doctors would be coming back and I didn’t know what the story would be.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, final casting came relatively recently. “People now think I’ve been lying for years, but I haven’t really!” says David. “It really did all come together very late in the day.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View the interview here: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jlp3HVAqx6s" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Day Of The Doctor starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Joanna Page, Billie Piper, Jenna Coleman and John Hurt will be broadcast worldwide in sync with the BBC One premiere at 7.50pm GMT on Saturday 23rd November.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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VIDEO: David Tennant And Matt Smith Talk To Digital Spy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgNaJ8YZFCd45YXrzOFmAU4IsjEbaXb0YKXfQv_zBcisXE-735IZlLnJ_N6EZIpfeW4uCUKhQgcwGqRh7SuVGvfrCyfb4P5y9eCaSG3EIcQ4IgpY5HMNQuAN7AHikSJyUAhNKfv6xpdJG/s1600/DigSpy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgNaJ8YZFCd45YXrzOFmAU4IsjEbaXb0YKXfQv_zBcisXE-735IZlLnJ_N6EZIpfeW4uCUKhQgcwGqRh7SuVGvfrCyfb4P5y9eCaSG3EIcQ4IgpY5HMNQuAN7AHikSJyUAhNKfv6xpdJG/s1600/DigSpy.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matt Smith says that he hopes that the 50th Anniversary episode of Doctor Who will be "...the biggest and best we've ever done" in a new interview with Digital Spy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It feels weirdly familiar, " says David Tennant on his return to the role of the Tenth Doctor. "In many ways like I've never been away. And then it's very peculiar, very odd to be back doing something that was such a huge part of my everyday life, and then there's the sense of trying to ease back into it."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the full interview here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="348" id="flashObj" width="618"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=2849966941001&playerID=871166280001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAACkAQxo~,JbFjHxgqCuak3gK2T7u3p0eDyamGmIu2&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=2849966941001&playerID=871166280001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAACkAQxo~,JbFjHxgqCuak3gK2T7u3p0eDyamGmIu2&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="618" height="348" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David and Matt appear together in <i>The Day Of The </i>Doctor, which also stars Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper and John Hurt. The 75 minute anniversary special will air simultaneously around the world in sync with the BBC One premiere 7.50pm GMT on Saturday 23rd November.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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INTERVIEW: David Tennant & Matt Smith Talk Regenerations, Tarzan And Hair

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbqGSEpm9twJreTBQFXtAhiy0FHTIaUak1SjPzm_IVyI2pJBlO893mQ6ZzHRic4TwQJphyphenhyphen94UxPOwQUubQN0G-oxGGV8CA64O6-OOziNWy93th1Y90tEfx9jbpUOnt_3k1N1xNuchrj4/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbqGSEpm9twJreTBQFXtAhiy0FHTIaUak1SjPzm_IVyI2pJBlO893mQ6ZzHRic4TwQJphyphenhyphen94UxPOwQUubQN0G-oxGGV8CA64O6-OOziNWy93th1Y90tEfx9jbpUOnt_3k1N1xNuchrj4/s640/14.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant and Matt Smith have taken part in a joint conversational interview for this month's Doctor Who Magazine and in it they talk about how they both felt whilst recording David's regeneration scene...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "I just sort of stumbled through it, and was grateful and thankful when it was over. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that? Also, I'd been for two auditions, had like three or four months hanging around, and then they were like, 'Can you come in, in like two weeks, please?'"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"Here's a page of dialogue"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "Yeah, and suddenly you're doing it and then... I mean, I'm going to have to go through it as well soon, but I can't imagine what it's like to see some young whippersnapper turn up in your suit".</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"It is quite peculiar. But that day was very different to my first day (The Parting Of The Ways, 2005). I had the advantage of sort of being slipped in under the cover of darkness, with a skeleton crew, no other actors, Chris Eccleston's half of the scene had already been filmed. I was just being dropped in a few weeks before it was transmitted. Whereas when you did it, Matt, most of the BBC seemed to have come down from London and was standing round the monitors. It was very high pressure."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"My experience of the day was...it was very mixed, because it was quite emotional just filming that last moment. It wasn't my last day. Had it been my last day as well..."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "Horrendous"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "I think I'd have found it really tough"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "Then I just wandered off and got in a car. That was the really weird bit. As you wander off you hear them going 'Right, okay, let's block the next scene', and suddenly you are aware of how dispensable you are - but also that you've filmed something quite historic, and that's exciting to be part of, as is this.."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conversation also touched upon David's hairstyle in The Day Of The Doctor, a subject that seems to be popular with some members of the fanbase. So are we to read anything in to the fact that his hair isn't quite as bouncy / spiky or generally va va voom as it was in some previous episodes..</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"Nothing. No. Well we're mixing it up. Otherwise it's business as usual. This isn't the sort of part where you can change your look all that often. You have a different tie now and again."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt: </b>"That's a different tie?"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"It's a slightly different tie, although very much from the same palette (laughs). The shirt's quite different."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "Is it?"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "No."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do they feel about their performances as the Doctor being compared to past actors portrayals?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "The Doctor isn't the same each time, so you're expected to kind of do it a bit different to the guy who did it last. It's not quite like Hamlet, or Tarzan, or James Bond, where the characters are sort of..."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "I find Tarzan a remarkable character. Sorry, to interrupt. Carry on."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> (Laughs) "But those characters are the characters, whereas the Doctor is a bit of a blank sheet each time. So I suppose you're compared by people who like to make lists of their favourites and things like that, but that's not really being compared against someone else as an actor, that's people having preferences, isn't it? Which is a slightly different thing."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt: </b>"I just really want to see a whimsical Tarzan now.."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read the full interview in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine which is out now priced at £7.99</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

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VIDEO: Doctor Who - 50 Years Of A TV Icon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvpsNJHNxdKMhS42JX7ZRZWIAh7y8LrHFjn5P6oTxD166gBqPXsXALzK_qBBejKKVHgt2hSnrxRb5cWEzg_w5R8AxRUAZdFM2yCtr_JMdRLqF6OoeiJ3rh67eQN-Gwa6cHbcRKtDP5tQL/s1600/DSpy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvpsNJHNxdKMhS42JX7ZRZWIAh7y8LrHFjn5P6oTxD166gBqPXsXALzK_qBBejKKVHgt2hSnrxRb5cWEzg_w5R8AxRUAZdFM2yCtr_JMdRLqF6OoeiJ3rh67eQN-Gwa6cHbcRKtDP5tQL/s640/DSpy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a new video feature, Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy has chatted to cast members and creatives of Doctor Who as well as fans in an attempt to discover why the show has survived for 50 years. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant, interviewed with Matt Smith, gives his theory. He says, "I wonder if part of the key to its longevity is that the basic format is unchanged. Really, a viewer in 1963 could turn on and watch Matt’s next episode…they’d be surprised about some of the things about it but they’d recognise the show."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other interviewees include Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the video here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dddCyH9Zj0w" width="640"></iframe><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who culminates in the broadcast of the anniverary special Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor. The episode stars David Tennant, Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper and John Hurt and premieres on Saturday 23rd November in a global simulcast by TV broadcasters and cinemas in over 75 different countries around the world. The special airs at 7.50pm GMT on BBC One and at 2.50pm ET on BBC America. <a href="http://www.doctorwho.tv/watch-the-day-of-the-doctor/"><span style="color: blue;">Click here</span></a> for a list of participating territories.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://david-tennant.com/2009/id205.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about The Day Of The Doctor here</span></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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David Tennant And Matt Smith On The Two Doctors: "They're Slightly Competitive"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPOvkHbAgWgToLeHQr3P7kC5VCxxkMYkHYeHf0RSdeUc1FQyeJ7ENxcHkmyauYu_d6brY3GQh6iAKfcw4jy4S6rrdQyoklEj-trSchatKb54xQ7h7SebkSlQ9yqDhlAadMtnC1kaswRI1/s1600/DW50-31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPOvkHbAgWgToLeHQr3P7kC5VCxxkMYkHYeHf0RSdeUc1FQyeJ7ENxcHkmyauYu_d6brY3GQh6iAKfcw4jy4S6rrdQyoklEj-trSchatKb54xQ7h7SebkSlQ9yqDhlAadMtnC1kaswRI1/s640/DW50-31.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier this year, Den Of Geek were lucky enough to be part of an interview session with David Tennant and Matt Smith on the set of <i>Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor.</i></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There has been a long tradition in Doctor Who of multi-Doctor shows and fans have always enjoyed the interactions between different facets of the Time Lord's personality. Once the big news broke that David Tennant and Billie Piper would be returning to play the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler in the 50th Anniversary special, one of the big questions was, of course, how would the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors interact.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They're slightly competitive,” says David Tennant. “But I think they quite enjoy being in each other's presence as well.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They get on, and then they don't get on,” Matt Smith expands. “And then they get on. It's like two brothers who are evenly matched, fencing a lot...”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“... or a conversation with your own conscious,” David chips in “You swing from being quite pleased with yourself to being infuriated with your own inadequacies, so I guess that's kind of writ large!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I think that's been quite interesting, to find the moments when our two Doctors intersect, and then when they do things rather differently. I think the fun is in the gap between the two. We've been finding joy in recognising the same thing, or having the same thought… And they switch between praising each other's ingenuity, to try to undermine each other at every possibility. They bicker a little, yes. But they quite like each other!...And then get surprised at how little they like each other!”<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There are moments, yeah. And I think our Doctors quite like each other. On occasion,” adds Matt “But they're sort of more evenly matched than buddy cops as well. But there's a bit of that. And also there's a great big alien plot in the middle of it.”<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And it slips in and out of the epic, effortlessly. So you have those brief, fun enjoyable moments, when they're bickering, or working together. And then it'll go somewhere much bigger, and grander and scarier,” says David.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To read what David and Matt had to say about David’s return, working with Billie Piper, Jenna Coleman and John Hurt, squeezable Zygons and life after Doctor Who <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/28149/david-tennant-and-matt-smith-interview-doctor-who"><span style="color: blue;">visit the Den Of Geek website</span></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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VIDEO: David Tennant Appears On Channel 4 News

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtS0c3qkmhab3HP9tSzaa7OovCd4xz0L8HPFKRWq7FebdZHlxS_D5Liyvd39HULG2cONDmtWrDKDWj4kolp6SaAlJOuyKZGJBqOr4lBQg5sfwozu05WCHqw7fcM_7pDqPeFaVRyBJoLYm7/s1600/CH4-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtS0c3qkmhab3HP9tSzaa7OovCd4xz0L8HPFKRWq7FebdZHlxS_D5Liyvd39HULG2cONDmtWrDKDWj4kolp6SaAlJOuyKZGJBqOr4lBQg5sfwozu05WCHqw7fcM_7pDqPeFaVRyBJoLYm7/s640/CH4-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant was interviewed this evening on Channel 4 News from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon,where he is currently performing in the lead role in <i>Richard II</i>. On Wednesday 13th, the play will be streamed to cinemas across the UK and worldwide in the Royal Shakespeare Company's first ever live theatre broadcast.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea of the broadcast, he explained, was that it would be like coming to the cinema to share the live experience of being in the theatre audience.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David explains that his motivation for performing Shakespeare is entirely selfish. "I love doing these plays, " he said, "I don't come because I want to proselytise about Shakespeare."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David talked about about the amount of violence in TV drama, with reference to his current BBC Series <i>The Escape Artist. </i>He also had some sound advice for up and coming actors.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If somebody brings you a cup of tea, " he said, "You say thank you. Rather than 'It's not warm enough'."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the full interview below:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZnnkgEdsG2M" width="640"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Richard II </i> starring David Tennant and directed by Gregory Doran will be broadcast live into cinemas on Wednesday 13th November. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">For more information visit the RSC Live From Stratford-Upon-Avon page</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

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UPDATED - VIDEO: Preview Clips From David Tennant's Channel 4 Interview

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDRQoV1zJN33NPdOhTHgP1l8bU7Rj-S-K4EtAsTF0TWeJd7BKHtRzIhvi2hdseo-H6oUapoZVWPAmzY_MmZQeXx0MwGJnr-1AcSwF5QNTOhUVi3nhOhzSxu6kHRKrwYCADKDXaVWVJ7IO/s1600/CH4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDRQoV1zJN33NPdOhTHgP1l8bU7Rj-S-K4EtAsTF0TWeJd7BKHtRzIhvi2hdseo-H6oUapoZVWPAmzY_MmZQeXx0MwGJnr-1AcSwF5QNTOhUVi3nhOhzSxu6kHRKrwYCADKDXaVWVJ7IO/s640/CH4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Channel 4 have released a brief preview clip from tonight's Channel 4 News interview with David Tennant.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the clip David discusses what cinema audiences might expect from the live global broadcast of the Royal Shakespeare Company's <i>Richard II </i>on the evening of Wednesday 13th November</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">   <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/abunW4U88eY" width="640"></iframe></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the second clip David talks about his desire to become an actor from a very young age</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="260" id="flashObj" width="370"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=2828615539001&playerID=69900095001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAEabvr4~,Wtd2HT-p_VhJQ6tgdykx3j23oh1YN-2U&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=2828615539001&playerID=69900095001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAEabvr4~,Wtd2HT-p_VhJQ6tgdykx3j23oh1YN-2U&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="370" height="260" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch David talking to Katie Razzall on Channel 4 News tonight from 7pm GMT</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx">For more information about the live broadcast visit the RSC live from Stratford-upon-Avon website</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

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David Tennant Interviewed On Channel 4 News Tonight

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX3giVACe0demlr0pd6XanjURR7j8fjH8hYVgWNqZbGlyphZm5h1MrxVVgNtoFRG70lW3V_wcYXesjoRIkwLvIq0iZrSzsZISuhG0lZnAW-yjeg3jRotmX0hE1lwEK_wKfuaEq90XUlaaN/s1600/DavidCWC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX3giVACe0demlr0pd6XanjURR7j8fjH8hYVgWNqZbGlyphZm5h1MrxVVgNtoFRG70lW3V_wcYXesjoRIkwLvIq0iZrSzsZISuhG0lZnAW-yjeg3jRotmX0hE1lwEK_wKfuaEq90XUlaaN/s640/DavidCWC.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant will be interviewed on Channel 4 News from 7pm GMT tonight.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reporter Katie Razzall who spoke to David tweeted that he will be talking about <i>Doctor Who</i>, violence on TV and <i>Richard II</i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week David can be seen in the final part of <i>The Escape Artist</i> on BBC One on Tuesday at 9pm.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David plays his final week in the title role of <i>Richard II</i> for the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon before the production transfers to London in December. On Wednesday the play will be streamed live into cinemas across the UK and around the world. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more here</span></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later this month David returns to the role of the Tenth Doctor in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary <i>The Day Of The Doctor</i>. The special will be simulcast globally on Saturday 23rd November at 7.50pm GMT</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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<br /><h3>Scarlett Johansson has given his opinion, rather favorable to adult films in an interview with the U.S. edition of Marie Claire.</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEija3vUOV_inM7tWnzsRcWVWOmIwpcz5bnc933l2JaNt6ksoX5OWzN0ukxsUYCQlQY38qqrdkQpmdbWxMIGqPd_nVl0eoOP3O0LYcd2JcDM5zt5qDN_F2Pxw4VH1NtYC83_7ShdZ5HgLOU/s1600/Scarlett+Johansson++porn+movies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEija3vUOV_inM7tWnzsRcWVWOmIwpcz5bnc933l2JaNt6ksoX5OWzN0ukxsUYCQlQY38qqrdkQpmdbWxMIGqPd_nVl0eoOP3O0LYcd2JcDM5zt5qDN_F2Pxw4VH1NtYC83_7ShdZ5HgLOU/s1600/Scarlett+Johansson++porn+movies.jpg" /></a></div><br />Scarlett Johansson keeps her sultry picture! After being voted the Sexiest Woman of the Year by the American magazine Esquire seven years after his first victory, the 28-year-old actress dropped a little phrase that some people do not forget! While she was just engaged to a Frenchy, Scarlett Johansson is the fantasy of many and will certainly continue to be<br /><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- biner text roze --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="7498839908"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> In an interview with the Maris Claire U.S., and it says<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">" porn, it's like everything, it can have a pleasant side. " </blockquote>For Scarlett Johansson, everyone can find his pleasure:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"It may be productive for both men and women," </blockquote>she says. It does not, however, says even if she is a fan<br /><br /> However, she admits:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> "I'd be embarrassed if my boyfriend looked much porn." </blockquote>A poster of Don Jon, movies for which she served a flaming promo, Scarlett Johansson plays the girlfriend of obsessed with porn movies ... to see what happens, but in the meantime we like to keep in mind its glamorous image in the new Dolce & Gabbana ad with Matthew McConaughey.<br /><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- biner text roze --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="7498839908"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br />

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VIDEO: David Tennant Talks About His Return To Doctor Who

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5o3-4qwN9VZU6bMm6edCnzozAjJX6yj-9zttLtVWiE9uhwy6ByyH_72P8mG-_M-in40-B2gPyIKUeN5bcfiRnvv3PwI-4sy4i5ocdWbZOUARTOS2SHM0ZYpNnOP1gZnELG1P-BYOiSqVF/s1600/DT-Int01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5o3-4qwN9VZU6bMm6edCnzozAjJX6yj-9zttLtVWiE9uhwy6ByyH_72P8mG-_M-in40-B2gPyIKUeN5bcfiRnvv3PwI-4sy4i5ocdWbZOUARTOS2SHM0ZYpNnOP1gZnELG1P-BYOiSqVF/s1600/DT-Int01.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The BBC have released video interviews of the cast and writer of the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who special, <i>The Day Of The Doctor.</i></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here, David Tennant talks about his return to the role of the Tenth Doctor, what it was like working with Matt Smith and the honour of being part of a show with such a legacy. He also recalls the thrill of watching multi-Doctor episodes in his own childhood and hopes that audiences now will enjoy seeing different versions of the same character play off against one another as much as he did.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I just hope that this will have some of that buzz for today's generation...it's exciting and so unique to Doctor Who," he says. "I'm certainly very excited to be part of one of these television events that I enjoyed when I was so much younger."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch David's interview here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="500" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/embed/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp01l2385&title=Media%20Centre%20Clips%3A%20Interview%20with%20David%20Tennant&product=iplayer" width="400"></iframe><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other video interviews are available with Matt Smith, Steven Moffat, Jenna Coleman and Joanna Page</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/dayofthedoctor/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click here to access the BBC media centre press pack</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Day Of The Doctor</i> airs worldwide on Saturday 23rd November. The special sees David Tennant return to the TARDIS as the Tenth Doctor along with companion Rose, played by Billie Piper. They join Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman as the Eleventh Doctor and Clara, with John Hurt as a dark and unknown incarnation of the Doctor. Plot details released this week reveal that the Doctors must face a murderous plot and an ancient battle in their greatest adventure in which all of reality is at stake. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look out for the trailer on BBC One and BBC America on Saturday 9th November shortly before 8pm GMT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://david-tennant.com/2009/id205.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about The Day Of The Doctor here</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br />

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David Tennant's Guardian Live Chat - Shakespeare, Guilty Pleasures And Performing In Bare Feet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfZJWRxz_C6_XXlirlK1o0aTpP8t53f4-YTaqYlBnjxNgEEEaaqBTpkYL_1rSAZcdqPB6kfO25QE0ABoFVRudOgnuhYjZ75QYLfkgvLhQrpVZl04fWU9nmSilz15EY-nYqQedZd6HI87T/s1600/Livechat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfZJWRxz_C6_XXlirlK1o0aTpP8t53f4-YTaqYlBnjxNgEEEaaqBTpkYL_1rSAZcdqPB6kfO25QE0ABoFVRudOgnuhYjZ75QYLfkgvLhQrpVZl04fWU9nmSilz15EY-nYqQedZd6HI87T/s1600/Livechat.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant took part in a live webchat hosted by The Guardian today, answering questions posed by readers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read his responses below:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ID9108892<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II: all well and good. But isn't Bolingbroke really the hero of the play: why not choose that character? And if not..why Richard II? Surely the world wants your Richard III? It's the ultimate bad guy piece and more fun than Richard II, surely??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's great about this play is that there is no definitive hero or villain. Shakespeare refuses to take sides, and that's why it works so timelessly. Certainly Richard is not immediately empathetic, but then unpleasant characters are more fun to play.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b>blackbroom<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of my actor friends who took stage names in their early twenties really regret their choices now (they either went for slightly porn star names or named themselves after a favourite pop star who they're now rather embarrassed by).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you regret naming yourself after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys? If you could choose a new stage name now, what would it be?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am now actually Tennant -- have been for a few years, it was an issue with the Screen Actors' Guild in the US, who wouldn't let me keep my stage name unless it was my legal name. Faced with the prospect of working under 2 different names on either side of the globe, I had to take the plunge and rename myself! So although I always liked the name, I'm now more intimately associated with it than I had ever imagined. Thank you, Neil Tennant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DEREKDUFF<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saw you in Hamlet at <st1:city w:st="on">Stratford</st1:city>and Much Ado in <st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place>- loved your performances and can't wait until Richard II. Do you still wear red undies when performing ?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO DEREK</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a lovely question, but I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ... I don't believe I've ever owned a pair of red undies, let alone worn any. Thanks, though!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b>TheatreZoe</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who are your favorite contemporary and classic playwrights and what about their work distinguishes them, in your opinion?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obviously I love a bit of Shakespeare ... I'm also a big fan of the modern American classics, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Martin McDonagh is touched with extraordinariness. David Hare can be brilliant. I thought Lucy Prebble's The Effect was fantastic. So many.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">identityno2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd love to know if there is any particular ritual you follow before you go on stage. For example listen to a certain song?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rituals -- my pre-show album on this production has turned out to be David Bowie's Next Day, and the closest I come to superstition is that I have to play that every night before I go on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Melissa_<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Richard II is filmed, will your performance vary in any way from one of the regular performances in consideration of the cameras, or will you do absolutely nothing different and count on the camera operators to get what they need?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a good question, and I'm not entirely sure. I think the idea is we do exactly what we do every night and we ignore the cameras, and they send it out into the world. I've never done it before; it's exciting and a little bit scary ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adam Lloyd<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read that your first Profesional job after drama school was 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' and that you didn't get a great review. Over the years do you read your reviews? And still get affected by them? Or do you just not read them and carry on with the work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bad review to which you refer was actually for a German expressionist piece about the Round Table called Merlin. It was the first extensive review I'd ever had, and it was absolutely appalling. Not that it's scarred into my memory in any way whatsoever. I try not to read them, these days. Reviews aren't really for the people who are performing, and -- good or bad -- they don't help. You always get a sense if something you're in has been well-received or not, that's unavoidable. But beyond that, details are best avoided ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anita C<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is your relationship like with your understudy? What is your involvement with the understudy production? I thoroughly enjoyed it, and Oliver Rix made an excellent king!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're right, Oliver Rix did make / could make an excellent king. It's one of the great strengths of a company like the RSC that an actor as good as Olly is also an understudy. I saw the understudy run too and felt inappropriately proud of the company, both our own company of actors and the RSC itself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ilanaisthedoctor<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DAVID......What is your guilty pleasure?? Everyone has one! Do not ignore it!! Haha love you! :D</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guilty pleasure? GTA5</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">abbieasdfghjkl<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loving the long hair, do you use herbal essences? ;)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other hair products are available.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b>Valeria Collins<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you watch Ben Whishaw's Richard II in preparation for your own or did you make a deliberate decision not to do so? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did, and I shouldn't have. Ben is one of those actors who seems to come from a different universe; he has something utterly magical about him. And it took all of the rehearsal process to banish the memory of the performance. I think in the end I've ended up doing something quite different to him, but I am nonetheless a huge fan. And he is annoyingly nice man as well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JenieT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My question is, you did an interview in 2003 when you said that you would love to play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet and Richard II. And 10 years later, you did them all! Is there any other role you would really love to play?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know -- ticked all the boxes! I still have a few boxes unticked, however. Angelo in Measure for Measure. Iago in Othello. Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Three'll do ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shane Korte<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You've played serious (or at least mostly serious) Shakespeare roles. Would you ever play the Fool? It seems something you might enjoy, with the wordplay and sass. Secondly, what is your favorite Shakespearean monologue?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favourite Shakespearean monologue is probably Berowne's speech about love in Love's Labour's Lost. That speech is why I wanted to play the part, and I still love it. I read it a close friend's wedding; it's always been very special to me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b>Alenzo76<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't Come to see the play but I'm hopping That Richard II Will be released on dvd very soon. Is it likely to happen? If it is the case Will it be available In the European countries? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not sure to be honest. Sorry!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tyorkshiretealass<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Would you ever consider branching out from acting into other areas of TV/film/theatre such as directing or writing?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've long fancied a go at theatre directing, but having just finished working with Greg Doran on this play, I feel woefully underqualified! Perhaps one day. And I've got a great idea for a production of Midsummer Night's Dream, but it's going to have to wait for now ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cassie Marvin<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If a random fan came up to you and asked to ruffle your hair, would you let them?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If anyone came up to me and ruffled my hair? I think I'd call the police.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Writonwater<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When preparing for the play how did you arrive at the precise accent and delivery you used. At the beginning of the play you use a very 'posh' English accent with quite a mannered delivery ( not a criticism, it was entirely appropriate for the rather effete king). Did you arrive at this during the rehearsal process or did you decide on this delivery during your own preparations for the role.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also I noticed that during the course if the play the accent became less pronounced and the mannered speech disappeared, how much was this a conscious decision or something that just happens as the pressure on Richard (and yourself) increases.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's an interesting observation. I think you're probably right that the accent does degenerate along with Richard. That wasn't particularly conscious, but I don't think that makes it any less appropriate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ICanHaveADarkside<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Performing barefoot on stage seems to have become a recurring theme, is it a conscious decision you make when developing a character or do you, like Tim Minchin, just find it more comfortable to perform sans shoes?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always happy to be mentioned in the same sentences as Tim Minchin. I did the barefoot thing in Hamlet and now in Richard II for different reasons each time, although perhaps it does indicate something about a character's vulnerability. Either that or I'm very short on ideas.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got to go now I'm afraid -- thanks lots for loads of questions, sorry I couldn't answer them all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See you at the cinema broadcast!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/nov/05/ask-david-tennant-anything-livechat">The complete livechat will be collated here</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo by Andy Dickson</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>

David Tennant interview The Guardian David Tennant's Guardian Live Chat - Shakespeare, Guilty Pleasures And Performing In Bare Feet

David Tennant took part in a live webchat hosted by The Guardian today, answering questions posed by readers. Read his responses below: ID91...

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David Tennant Joins The Guardian For Live Webchat Today

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-fLS9ohSruOcGXNdH4TD7yQfk1KS3IQ4xuvVMT9qhQNGoV_dAYPOv-pMSjrLgyIUgCCylAe2MTOMx9IToRRwsgVVlvxuMKl30t6Uelv5V_45XXkYYuh7c_REdmUDf4suYGyk_uEm5Odl/s1600/rich4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-fLS9ohSruOcGXNdH4TD7yQfk1KS3IQ4xuvVMT9qhQNGoV_dAYPOv-pMSjrLgyIUgCCylAe2MTOMx9IToRRwsgVVlvxuMKl30t6Uelv5V_45XXkYYuh7c_REdmUDf4suYGyk_uEm5Odl/s1600/rich4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant will be joining the Guardian newspaper live from <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> later today for an online webchat. The paper would like fans to pose questions for David via their website in preparation for the event.<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Guardian suggest:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Perhaps you want to quiz him on playing Shakespeare's vacillating monarch, or how he's preparing for the <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/">RSC's first-ever live cinemacast next week</a>. Maybe you're fishing for views on Doctor Who, or his upcoming film and TV work. Or perhaps you want to know whether he's <a href="http://www.team-tennant.com/article/id131.html"><span style="color: blue;">got any better at doing his washing</span></a> …"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To take part, just post your question in the comments thread at the bottom of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/nov/05/ask-david-tennant-anything-livechat?CMP=twt_fd"><span style="color: blue;"><b>t</b></span><b><span style="color: blue;">his article</span></b></a> (sign-up required). The live chat will begin on the Guardian website at 2pm GMT today - return to the link to follow David's responses.</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>

David Tennant interview The Guardian David Tennant Joins The Guardian For Live Webchat Today

David Tennant will be joining the Guardian newspaper live from Stratford-upon-Avon later today for an online webchat. The paper would like ...

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Ask David Anything! Join In The Guardian's Live Chat With David Tennant Tomorrow

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCK-Zg7HMhnI-suReu02Xwz-nK_Wl3LK48EP7g16CQ6vDohVWJKa7LOCZjVihEF_jKlSPDXUfn4oIMLpGQf2q5L3J4EcwiE5-teo5AvRQ6CdAT_RJHl393dnzKCLoRmpl9oXGi79bjbRKs/s1600/RII-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCK-Zg7HMhnI-suReu02Xwz-nK_Wl3LK48EP7g16CQ6vDohVWJKa7LOCZjVihEF_jKlSPDXUfn4oIMLpGQf2q5L3J4EcwiE5-teo5AvRQ6CdAT_RJHl393dnzKCLoRmpl9oXGi79bjbRKs/s640/RII-04.jpg" width="543" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant will be joining the Guardian newspaper live from Stratford-upon-Avon tomorrow for an online webchat and the paper are asking readers to pose questions.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Guardian suggest:</span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Perhaps you want to quiz him on playing Shakespeare's vacillating monarch, or how he's preparing for the <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/">RSC's first-ever live cinemacast next week</a>. Maybe you're fishing for views on Doctor Who, or his upcoming film and TV work. Or perhaps you want to know whether he's <a href="http://www.team-tennant.com/article/id131.html"><span style="color: blue;">got any better at doing his washing</span></a> …"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To take part, just post your question in the comments thread at the bottom of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/nov/05/ask-david-tennant-anything-livechat?CMP=twt_fd"><span style="color: blue;"><b>this article</b></span></a> (sign-up required). The live chat will begin on the Guardian website at 2pm GMT on Wednesday 6th November.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant is currently appearing as Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: <a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue;">read more here</span></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second part of his new TV drama <i>The Escape Artist</i> airs at 9pm on BBC One tonight: <a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id195.html"><span style="color: blue;">read more here</span></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David returns to the role of the Tenth Doctor in <i>Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor</i> on BBC One on Saturday 23rd November: <a href="http://david-tennant.com/2009/id205.html"><span style="color: blue;">read more here</span></a></span></li></ul><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br />

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David Tennant & The Escape Artist In The TV Mags

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQO0N1fm7tfHCFgny3AxOiF-ja4TFlwEPxgMrf1ztkqpkOcQkja63UMYjZpapacq3DQcz_SmAseDgNc2PYib-8H1tlOMCGJD2R8CENxb6zTTWM_9s9C6tZFC4dRLBtq8r8aVuI4yVWV8/s1600/escapeartpromo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQO0N1fm7tfHCFgny3AxOiF-ja4TFlwEPxgMrf1ztkqpkOcQkja63UMYjZpapacq3DQcz_SmAseDgNc2PYib-8H1tlOMCGJD2R8CENxb6zTTWM_9s9C6tZFC4dRLBtq8r8aVuI4yVWV8/s640/escapeartpromo.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant is featured in a host of television guides this week to promote his new BBC One thriller, The Escape Artist.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See a selection of scans below:</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Ashely Jensen: "I think there are a lot of women that would be slightly jealous of my bedroom scenes with David Tennant"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiUY-F6ouyupFt7cZprqfjNPXQRpWrMP5HZqPMwZdajxEdW2dxwVYPB_xh8qREJOPeMa4KktB0iYDF7iCa7B36vkFWEIfCCc2_aDrAGnzmIXAXC65f3eGg8EnEQ_Y3B8qNm1qvn_fXKQ/s1600/thees2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiUY-F6ouyupFt7cZprqfjNPXQRpWrMP5HZqPMwZdajxEdW2dxwVYPB_xh8qREJOPeMa4KktB0iYDF7iCa7B36vkFWEIfCCc2_aDrAGnzmIXAXC65f3eGg8EnEQ_Y3B8qNm1qvn_fXKQ/s640/thees2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant's The Escape Artists co star Ashley Jensen has been chatting about working on the BBC drama:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a fantastic script - was that what drew you to the part?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think every actor says it ultimately comes down to the script. In this case the script was such a brilliantly executed story, with very complex moral dilemmas, that I couldn’t say no. Quite often when you read a script you find that life gets in the way, you have to do something else and you get distracted, but this was a genuine page-turner, so I really, really liked it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You take different jobs for different reasons and I think because David and I have a good rapport it will add to the impact of the story. I wanted to be part of that.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do the producer and director manage to reflect the twists and turns of the script in the finished films?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The way it’s been shot very much sets the tone for the whole piece. It’s a collaboration of course, the casting, lighting, directing just as much as the writing of the script, but to have the wonderful base to work from is always a great place to start. When I first discussed it with our director Brian he told me that he wanted to shoot it like a Hitchcock thriller, so it would have subtle lighting and interesting shots, and indeed from what I’ve seen he’s achieved that.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Wolstencroft describes The Escape Artist as a thriller set against a legal back-drop?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That’s what’s so interesting. You can almost set a thriller anywhere but I do think it is fascinating to watch the British legal system in action. The story has several different levels - David is going on this journey where he has to address things that he has believed in all his life. He’s questioning his whole way of thinking and his life has just been turned on its head so I think this is an intellectual show as much as it is a thriller. With any good thriller you should get to the point where you ask yourself, what would I do? The Escape Artist absolutely does that. If you’re asking yourself those questions then that’s good story telling.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did it make accepting the job easier knowing David Tennant was going to be your on-screen husband?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David and I knew each other from 20 years ago. We did theatre together in Scotland and then worked in theatre together 10 years later. We’ve kept in touch throughout that time which helps when you’re playing a married couple that need to be so familiar with each other. I think there are a lot of women that would be slightly jealous of my bedroom scenes with David Tennant - but it’s all part of the job!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’re known for both your dramatic and comedic roles – do you approach them differently?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wouldn’t say I approach drama in a particularly different way to comedy. If anything I approach American and British comedy a little differently. All of the American comedy I’ve done is quite often about the lines, whereas the British comedy is about the space between the lines and the things that are not said.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was the shoot like for you as a whole?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I seemed to be literally on my back the whole time. I was in a bath on my back, I was in a bed on my back. So I would get up and walk into work then lie down. The glamour of it all!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was it like working with Monica Dolan?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monica is a friend of mine. It’s funny actually - I was just saying earlier that when women get to the age of 40 they’re split into two categories - you’re either playing the Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction or the Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction. My good friend Monica is definitely Glenn Close and I’m definitely Anne Archer!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the dynamic like between your character and Maggie?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think women can be their own worst enemies sometimes. Maggie is so deeply patronising to Kate but it’s Maggie’s insecurity and her need to constantly prove things to herself. Kate is the bigger woman I think because she is very secure in her relationship. Maggie wants affirmation whereas Kate is very secure in who she is and what she has, so it doesn’t really affect her.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What were the producers Hilary Bevan Jones and Paul Frift like to work with?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have a body of work that is BAFTA winning, with wonderful, eclectic, interesting scripts, so knowing the calibre of work they have behind them you always felt in safe hands. They were always around and they really were brilliant producers!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story is heavily set in British law, could that be an issue for international viewers?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think really this is a morality tale of good and evil, and those themes are universal – so in terms of a drama and a thriller it works for everyone. I also think it is quite interesting for an international audience to see how British law works because it is so steeped in history. It’s not like Judge Judy - we still wear wigs and there are rules you have to adhere to and speeches that people have to make. It was fascinating for me as I didn’t really know much about it before.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How was it working within such an ensemble cast?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think we got a certain calibre of actors wanting to be a part of The Escape Artist because they believed in the script and in Brian and David’s vision for the films. It’s a very creative piece of filmmaking and as an actor that’s always exciting to be part of. Gus, who played my on screen son Jamie, was absolutely brilliant, I think child actors these days seem to be getting better and better. He was so free and very receptive. Before a scene we would have a bit of banter and he didn’t get shy or embarrassed or coy or feel silly about it and he was very much there and very open.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you feel at all protective towards Gus given some of the darker subject matter?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well Gus wasn’t allowed on set for the more disturbing scenes. Production went to great lengths to do that which was the right thing to do. He was completely unperturbed by it. Gus, I believe, is 12 but looks a lot younger.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You must have felt at home with all the Scottish accents?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s always nice to hear the dulcet tones of a Scottish accent. I spent six yours in America being the only Scottish person. I used to make jokes about being the token jock and of course out there a jock is a totally different thing and they all said, ‘what you play football?’ and I found myself having to explain my sense of humour.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why should people tune in for the show?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want people to watch it because good drama makes you question things and question yourself, like a good book can and going to the theatre makes you have a discussion afterwards. This is the sort of piece that will have the audience asking themselves what would they do in that situation, and what would provoke them to make them go that far?</span></div>

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INTERVIEW: David Tennant Talks About The Escape Artist

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrOE0LXkM-AsmhNdk1dAh2HbBHP9dreewYBHlbRFsFoI2R11OoSJOYpvJxLWR39tL_y5bFJbjvXspTo00Uwc_Y9DpdajcBR_9spdzsa8l-L8M1JCSmxVNgRc336Ht5h8fc6xB5-WxPIY/s1600/thees1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrOE0LXkM-AsmhNdk1dAh2HbBHP9dreewYBHlbRFsFoI2R11OoSJOYpvJxLWR39tL_y5bFJbjvXspTo00Uwc_Y9DpdajcBR_9spdzsa8l-L8M1JCSmxVNgRc336Ht5h8fc6xB5-WxPIY/s640/thees1.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell us what The Escape Artist actually means for Will?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will is a defence Barrister, he’s not quite QC, he’s not taken silk yet as they say, but he’s well on his way and he has the extraordinary record of never having defended anyone and lost. He’s a fairly exceptional defence Barrister – he’s very good at what he does, he’s driven, extremely able and seems to have something of a charmed life.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is Will a likeable character?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s easy to be likeable when everything is going your way and it is for Will, life doesn’t trouble him particularly. He’s incredibly gifted and has a wonderful wife and little boy that he dotes on. Life is great for Will and he’s clearly on his way to being one of the country’s most respected QCs. Very early on in our story he is elected number one in a law magazine’s top 40 under 40 something his colleague Maggie finds hard to swallow.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell us about Will’s relationship with his wife Kate</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will and Kate have been together a good while and have an eight-year-old boy. Everything is working out for them. Will is driven and professionally successful but he manages to have a decent work / life balance at the same time.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their relationship has to be established quite quickly in the series – does it help that you’ve worked with Ashley Jensen before?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the fact that I know Ashley of old certainly does help. Every job you do brings different circumstances and people so it’s lovely to have a shorthand with Ashley with whom I did my very first professional job out of drama school.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What made you think this would be a great project to take on?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you’re privileged enough to be reading a number of scripts, the ones that you don’t want anyone else to have are quite easy to recognise and this was one of those. I read it straight through and was completely hooked and convinced, teased and satisfied by it, dramatically and emotionally. When you have a reaction to a script that strongly, you’ve got to recognise it and make the most of it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you think there is an element of theatre in the courtroom?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s a huge performance element and when playing those scenes you feel that. Three barristers could all say the same stuff but the way they deliver it is part of how you receive it, and part of who you believe, and in the end it’s all about who you believe is delivering the truth.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You had a legal advisor on the project, how much help was he in researching your role?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Jefferies QC worked with us on every aspect of the production and has been invaluable as a resource for fact checking. He came up with a couple of solutions to cases which found their way into the script. Also personally just chatting to someone who does this for a living and finding out what goes on in his head, and watching him do his stuff, was very helpful.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you have discussions about your characters with Toby Kebbell who plays Foyle prior to filming?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t think you do discuss how you’re going to play it, obviously it comes from the script, these characters have been beautifully created by our writer. I didn’t know Toby before this, in fact he wasn’t around during pre-production because he was in America so we didn’t have any time to talk through scenes and discuss objectively what either of our characters thought about things, which actually I think was the right way to go about it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What did Brian bring to the drama’s direction?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brian is Scottish so obviously he’s brilliant, there are a lot of Scottish people on this job actually, which obviously is why it’s going to be fantastic! When his name came up I was working with Jodie Whittaker who had worked with him on Black Mirror so I approached Jodie and she couldn’t have been more positive or given Brian a heartier recommendation. I thought if Jodie thinks he’s alright then he is probably pretty good! And he was.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you see the big scenes coming when reading the script?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No! I didn’t see any of it coming! When Will doesn’t shake Foyle’s hand and walks off, I thought that was a story beat telling us something about Will. I didn’t for a second think that we’d see Foyle again. I thought we’d be onto the next case and we’d see Will being an Escape Artist in some other extraordinary way. I thought it was a courtroom drama, I had no idea.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do you think David creates moments of high drama in such a relatable setting?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He’s actually writing some wildly dramatic stuff that, in the hands of any other writer would maybe seem ludicrous. But what is great about David’s writing is that the stakes are higher than you can imagine, it’s all quite melodramatic yet he roots it all in a world of complete credibility. I think that’s the great triumph of how David writes, you never doubt it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, what would you say to entice a viewer to tune in?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the show comes closer to transmission and we inevitably have to talk about it, it’s going to be quite hard because you so want people to come and enjoy the surprises, but you don’t want to give any of them away so it’s quite a tricky one to navigate. It’s one of those shows where you just have to say ‘trust me, just watch it!’ You’ll think it’s one thing, and that will be fun in itself, and then it just gets so much better.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

BBC One David Tennant interview The Escape Artist TV Drama INTERVIEW: David Tennant Talks About The Escape Artist

Tell us what The Escape Artist actually means for Will? Will is a defence Barrister, he’s not quite QC, he’s not taken silk yet as they say,...

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