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Projects
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) Character: Spitelout (voice) Status: In Theatres Release: 26 March 2010 Other:IMDb
Single Father (2010) Character: Dave Status: Announced Release: 2010 Other:IMDb
Fright Night (2011) Character: Peter Vincent Status: Pre-Production Release: October 2011 Other:IMDb
David has nominated for Best Actor and Sexiest Male in the SFX awards. Doctor Who is up for even more, being nominated for Best TV Show. The Next Doctor and Planet Of The Dead are both up for Best TV Episode. (Doctor Who is nominated throughout the other categories including Best Special Effects and Best Monster Or Villain).
David Tennant played the title role in Gregoty Doran’s production of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon from 24th July to 15th November 2008 and for some performances at the Novello Theatre, London in December to January 2008-9. In this interview Tennant discusses the process of production from casting to performance – his initial thoughts on the part, rehearsal preparation, character interpretation and realization. Situating Doran’s production within the performance history of the play, Tennant discusses the reasons behind their modern-dress interpretation and the relevance of the play to a twenty-first century audience.
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David Tennant takes on Robert Carlyle at BAFTA Scotland Awards
Scottish stars including David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, Peter Capaldi and Bill Paterson have been nominated for this year’s BAFTA Scotland Awards, with hit political comedy In The Loop also in the spotlight after receiving a triple nomination.
In the male Acting in TV category David Tennant received a nomination for his starring role Dr Who, taking on Robert Carlyle for The Unloved and Bill Paterson for Spanish Flu – The Forgotten Fallen.
“We’ve flirted with it. Our production of Hamlet, with David Tennant, will be on television on Christmas Day. We were some way down the road with doing Hamlet as a live broadcast earlier this year, and I don’t think it’ll be long before we’re involved. It’s slightly more interesting and challenging for us, because we work on a thrust stage: a production set behind a proscenium arch lends itself easily to a flat screen.
Thanks to some followers on our twitter, we found this little gem today confirming that Director John Landis did in fact say David was playing in the movie. It’s at about 10 minutes: