Acting career a ‘ludicrous idea’ says Tennant
HE is now one of Scotland’s best known actors.
But if it were up to his friends as a teenager he would have never made it to centre stage.
David Tennant has said his mates told him becoming an actor was a ‘daft idea’.
In an interview with The Big Issue magazine the 46-year-old from Bathgate, West Lothian, admitted that wanting to be an actor at 16 felt a bit ‘ludicrous’.
He said: ‘I didn’t know any actors. And people all around me were going, quite rightly, “This is a daft idea. You won’t make a living”. It was sound and proper advice.
‘But there was a little part of the teenage me that thought they might be wrong. It would be nice to go back to him now and tell him, you’re in your mid-40s now, and you’re still getting away with it.’
Former Doctor Who star Tennant also disclosed that he did not enjoy his adolescence.
‘I was always aware that I was waiting for adulthood to start. I found the lack of control over your own affairs as a child annoying,’ he said.
‘And that just became more pronounced during the teenage years. I knew I definitely wanted to go to drama school.
‘In fact I think I got my first acting job at 16. Or even at 15, an anti-smoking ad.’
Tennant stars in You, Me and Him at the Glasgow Film Festival on February 25-26.