Friday, October 31, 2008

From Perez Hilton

I feel like you don't see this often from American television actors...

The tenth face of England's Dr. Who, David Tennant, is bowing out of the show after five years with the wildly successful and highly esteemed science fiction drama.

He will appear in the Christmas episode and 4 hour long specials to air in 2009 and 2010. But after that, it will be time for someone new to take on the role of the shape-shifting time-traveling alien.

Tennant said of his departure, "This show has been so special to me. I don't want to outstay my welcome."

Tennant, who is a classically trained actor, is now starring as Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's famous play.


http://perezhilton.com/2008-10-30-david-tennant-is-leaving-dr-who

1 comment:

Bernard said...

OK, but PEREZ HILTON???!!!

I was just reading an article abut Marlon Brando, whom a lot of people consider the greatest American actor ever. He played Mark Antony in a film of "Julius Caesar" with a cast of mostly British classically trained actors. The great Shakespearean actor Sir John Gielgud thought he was great and tried to get Brando to come to Britain and play Hamlet on the stage. But Brando himself thought he wasn't up to it. It's considered one of the great missed chances of modern theater.
In his last years, Brando taught some informal acting classes, and he claimed that his entire theory of acting was in Hamlet's speech to the players. Brando was certainly eccentric; one of his students in the class was a guy he found searching through a dumpster near his house and talked into attending an acting class.