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David Tennant recalls agent telling him 'don't touch' 'Doctor Who': 'You don’t want that hung around your neck'

David Tennant remembers his former agent advising him to reject 'Doctor Who': 'You don’t want that hung around your neck.'

Tennant said that he was "scared" when the team behind the show made him the offer to replace Christopher Eccleston as the time-traveling protagonist, noting that "there was definitely a moment where I wasn't" going to take the part. Elsewhere in the podcast, Tennant reflected on how Billie Piper, who played companion Rose Tyler in the revival's first two seasons, helped him navigate his newfound celebrity status once he took on the role. "Billie Piper was sort of, by chance, next to me every day for the first bit of that," he said, noting that her teen pop stardom served as a "baptism of fire" for handling fame.

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