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David Tennant Recalls Agent Told Him “Don’t Touch” ‘Doctor Who’ Role

Although David Tennant will go down as one of the greatest "Doctors" on television, his 'Doctor Who' role only came after he sought a second opinion.

The 2x Emmy winner revealed “there was definitely a moment where I wasn’t” going to take the titular Time Lord in the BBC series Doctor Who, in which he starred as the Tenth Doctor from 2005 to 2010. I had to go process everything that it meant,” he said on David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, adding: “I had an agent at the time who was like, ‘Don’t touch it. With Ncuti Gatwa taking the lead as the current Fifteenth Doctor, Davies explained he “wanted the show to be fun and a bit nuts.”

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