Bad Omens: David Tennant cast a Shakespearean curse at NYCC 2023
“I’m not a truck man living with” such a superstition” David Tennant on stage in his arched panel at New York Comic Con, moderated by Tiffany Babb Popverse. Start the story of The Scottish Play at the Donmar Cellar London was happy to share his “Shakespeare geek side” with the crowd at NYCC. “Macbeth,” said he, “I think the word must be said.” Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth.
Because of the ongoing SAG-Aftra strike, the Scottish actor was unable to discuss much about his career or past projects. “I came to SAG,” Tennant refrained as audience members shouted questions about the issue Doctor Who, Good Omen and he could not speak otherwise. Tennant, for what it’s worth, sneak a shout out to Ncuti Gatwa, who will be taking on the role of the Doctor in the next season of the series, as he talks about the school drama. Both attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, which is now the Royal Scottish Academy.
Tennant and what he does not want, he could not discuss the broad strokes of his life, proclaiming the benefits of pizza in New York, for many years. How to train your dragon audiobooks, especially the BBC’s Zoom-set series Staged with these * Good omens costar Michael Sheen, and lots and lots of Shakespeare.
“I try to learn before I start,” he said. “This is what I was doing this very morning.” Tennant will star as the titular tragic hero alongside actor Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Torchwood) as Lady M. “The whole assembly is fired and it’s time to wake up.” “I don’t want to hold my script too long. This is the sum of all my preparation. Tennant said that it is difficult to prepare the story as he has seen it so many times already in various productions, good and bad, but when. Macbeth he errs, often errs in action. And since the trigger has to be started, it is now good! It hasn’t started yet. Now, pure pure. It’s to be the best production Macbeth that has always been the case. ”
He clearly doesn’t believe in jinxes, either! But he has already admitted one mistake. “With something like” MacbethTennant, he says, “some have gone before you (…) It was one day from Ian McKellen to Patrick Stewart actors, I didn’t even listen, I started to go from a version of one speech.” The actor’s major modern approach to the past shows him through the movies, which the actor said was “absinthe”, which was “appealing and attracting”. at all useless ”
Finally, his Macbeth will be specific to him. “(Shakespeare’s plays) happen in the moment,” he said. “One of the things that makes Shakespeare so compelling (and why) his plays are as popular now as they ever were, if only more so, is that he had such an understanding of what it is like to be human, that whenever you put one of the stories from the novel. To sing things “. What is more important, he said, then what the words of the old titans of Shakespeare such as Kenneth Branagh or John Gielgud did, and they did not stress in their performances.
New York Comic Con is not necessarily where one would expect to hear references to Richard II. But the course was not. He named so many actors, such as McKellen, Stewart, Branagh, and Whishaw, all household names in the nerd sphere for his involvement. Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, James Bond, X-Men, Harry Potter, Thor — and the index is submitted. Tennant couldn’t talk about how Titan is like science fiction and fantasy for them, but it fits well.
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