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FORMER Doctor Who star David Tennant got carried through a river and failed to make a ‘magical donkey’ move while on the set of his latest film.

Filming at Llanrhaeadr Waterfall last Thursday, David Tennant was playing the part of supply teacher Mr Pieterson for the sequel to the 2009 hit comedy Nativity!, when he learned why they say you should ‘never work with animals or children’.

One scene in particular left Tennant in no doubt wishing he could escape Mid Wales in his Tardis.

The Scottish actor and co-star Marc Wooton stumbled across a ‘magic donkey’ who was supposed to point them in the direction to go, but the ass had other ideas, refusing to move regardless of how hard Wooton tried pulling at its reigns.

The patience of the two actors became somewhat strained and when producers suggested changing the plan so one of the children try moving the donkey, Wooton snapped “let me get this right, you are suggesting one of the kids make this donkey move when a man like me can’t?”

To the amusement of everyone watching, the plan proved a good one as the young girl was able to persuade the donkey to follow her at the first time of asking.

Wooton stormed off as soon as the scene was finished, closely followed by David Tennant, who darted into his blacked-out car, ignoring autograph hunters holding out Doctor Who boxsets.

Earlier that day, Tennant had to be carried through a cold river by Wooton and spent hours filming scenes over-and-over again as slow progress was made.

He spent large parts of the day walking up and down muddy hills while holding one of the child actors in his arms.

As a result the normally bubbly star seemed out of sorts and refused to speak with anyone unrelated to the movie, telling the press “I am to busy” when asked what it is like making a film in Mid Wales?

Earlier in the week David Tennant was spotted filming at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant’s market Square and driving a large amphibious vehicle on Lake Vyrnwy.
n Nativity 2 is expected to be completed ahead of a release in time for Christmas 2012.

Hugh Grant voices the Pirate Captain – seen here meeting the dastardly Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) who is Not Amused – who leads his merry but less-than-totally-competent band of bucanneers around the seas in search of treasure and, preferably, the Pirate Of The Year award (modelled in this trailer by Brian Blessed’s Pirate King). Things, it’s fair to say, do not go entirely to plan.

The cast also includes David Tennant, Brendan Gleeson, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Russell Tovey. It’s all based on the first two of Gideon Defoe’s Pirates! books, and directed by Aardman stalwart Peter Lord with co-director Jeff Newitt.

You can read more from Lord himself on the film in the guest blogs he’s written for us here and here. The film’s out on March 28 next year, and we’ll be following all the developments between now and then. This is some seriously funny stuff and, it almost goes without saying, gorgeous animation.

UK 14 August 2011 (Empire Big Screen) (UK Premiere)
Australia 18 August 2011
Hungary 18 August 2011
Israel 18 August 2011
Bulgaria 19 August 2011
Canada 19 August 2011
USA 19 August 2011
Italy 26 August 2011
UK 27 August 2011 (Frightfest)

Check out the rest here @ IMDB

David Tennant is to star as Robert Louis Stevenson in a BBC drama based on the author’s travel writings and personal letters.

The two-part Radio 4 drama, called Stevenson In Love, portrays “significant journeys” the writer made, and how his feelings for a woman who later became his wife affected him on his travels.
In the first part, called Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, the drama follows Stevenson in France. Here he kept a journal that was to become his travelogue from which the drama takes its name.
In the second part, The Amateur Emigrant, Stevenson catches a steamer to New York and then undertakes a train journey across America, ending in California.
The drama has been written by Mike Harris. Part one will be broadcast on Radio 4 on October 26, with part two on October 27.
The cast also features Lizzy McInnerny.