Sam Brigger
speaker
1,127 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6 Jun
Sam Brigger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Scottish actor David Tennant's list of accomplishments is as long as it has varied. Perhaps best known for playing Doctor Who, he is also considered one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation, as you can see now in the film of his Macbeth, which was staged in 2023, with Tennant playing the lead and Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth. It's now streaming on Marquee TV.
He is also memorably played Hamlet and Richard II. You probably watched him as the haunted and brooding detective in the British crime drama Broadchurch, and maybe even in the American adaptation called Grace Point, where he plays more or less the same role but with an American accent.
David Tennant has also been his share of screen villains, including real-life serial killer Dennis Nilsen in the miniseries Dez, Kilgrave in the Marvel TV show Jessica Jones, one of the most repugnant characters I have ever seen, as well as the smaller but memorable, lip-licking Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
He also hosted the BAFTA Awards for the past two years, Great Britain's version of the Oscars, this year opening the ceremony singing the song 500 Miles in a bespoke black jacket and kilt suit. And he was hilarious to watch playing a version of himself in the streaming comedy staged with Michael Sheehan, one of the few good things to come out of the COVID pandemic.
David Tennant also has a podcast called David Tennant Does a Podcast With, where you fill in the name of the guest from that episode, often an actor he has worked with. A third season of the podcast released this year, and while we might have said, hey, David Tennant, stay in your lane. There's enough long-format interview shows out there.
Instead, we decided that this would be a good opportunity to have him on our long-format interview show to ask him about his life and career. So David Tennant, welcome to Fresh Air. Thank you very much for having me. You did two seasons of your podcast ending in 2020, but then you came back last month with the third season. Why did you come back now?
When you go into these interviews, like, do you have a specific agenda? Like, are you when you're like, oh, Olivia Colman, I've always wanted to know this about her? Or do you sometimes think about things in your own career which have puzzled you that gives you an opportunity to ask someone else who does the same work?
Speaking about coping with being a celebrity, you tell a story that someone asked you for an autograph while you were naked in a shower at the gym.
on three seasons of the show staged with Michael Sheen.
Oh, yeah. This show largely takes place, at least it seems to, I don't know if it was filmed this way, but as a series of Zoom calls between you and Michael Sheen and your respective spouses and other people. At least in the first season, you're rehearsing this play. during COVID, hoping that when the lockdown is over, you'll have this thing ready to go.
And of course, that doesn't work out so well. So how did this show come about?
He was quite funny in the show.
I have to say that when I first heard about the show, I didn't think I was going to enjoy watching it. Oh, no. It sounds desperately dull.
We were all living our lives on Zoom. And the last thing I wanted to do was watch a TV show about Zoom. However, it quickly won me over because it's so funny. I thought we would play a scene from the show. Oh, good. To set this up, Michael Sheehan is irritated with you at this point. That's that track. Yeah. Because originally you were going to do this play with someone else.
So he was the second choice. So you guys are doing a reading. And I think we'll also hear Simon Evans in this. And he's desperate to keep things on track. But Michael Sheehan is basically trying to pick a fight with you. And you have had a line where you use the word heard. And he's questioning how you're saying that word. So let's hear that.
That's a scene from the show staged with Michael Sheehan and our guest David Tennant. David Tennant, there's so many times watching that show where I just laughed out loud. You guys have such a great rapport. Can you talk about the version of yourself that you're playing in the show?
Well, it's so funny. Just your look on the show, you just look stupefied with boredom the whole time. Your mouth is hanging open. Well, it was a particular time, wasn't it? It certainly was. One of the funny sight gags is that you keep getting caught drinking out of this mug with your face on it. And they keep saying, is that you on that mug?
And you deny it.
So you said you were home. You and your wife, Georgia, have five kids. I have two kids. And it was very tough to sort of keep them busy, keep them on their schooling during COVID. What was it like with five? Like, was your house just crazy all the time?
So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about your work doing Shakespeare. Your version of Macbeth that I think was originally staged in 2023 is now available to stream on Marquee TV. And you star with Kush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth. Yeah. This is a very minimalist staging. The stage itself is pretty much like this white platform.
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