Tennant Explains How His 60th Anniversary Return Came To Be
“It all slightly happened a little bit by accident,” he told the BBC. “[The Doctor Who Lockdown “watch-alongs” is] where this all started.”
“At a certain time and day everyone would press play on a certain episode and some of the people who had been involved in those episodes were tweeting along. I don’t tweet but my wife helped me,” he laughs.
Afterwards the three of them “were just having a text exchange and Catherine said, ‘wouldn’t it be fun to do it again?'”
He adds: “Russell said, ‘We could do a one off, maybe they’d let us’. We said, ‘yeah that would be a laugh,’ and then it all went quiet.”
“Suddenly Russell let us know that he was taking over the show again and he would be back fully in charge and would we come and play a little bit for him?”
“So I don’t know if we gave him the idea to take Doctor Who back but certainly we thought if he’s doing it, we can’t let these young people have all the fun.”
Tennant also praised Ncuti Gatwa’s casting: “Ncuti is brilliant. He’s a lovely, lovely man, and he’s full of beans and he’s really talented. I mean, he’s like scary-talented. So I’m thrilled for every Doctor Who fan for what’s to come and I include myself in that number.”
