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This is Fresh Air.

I'm Terry Gross.

Today's guest, David Tennant, is best known as an actor, but he also has an interview

podcast, which is now in its third season.

Some of this year's guests include Stanley Tucci, Ben Schwartz, and Rosamond Pike.

Tennant spoke with fresh airs Sam Brigger.

Here's Sam. Scottish actor David Tenet's lists of accomplishments is as long as it is 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 in Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth.

It's now streaming on Marquis TV. He is also memorably played Hamlet and Richard

the second. You probably watched him as the haunted and brooding detective in the British crime drama

Broad Church, 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 Des,

Killgrave in the Marvel TV show Jessica Jones,

one of the most repugnant characters I have ever seen,

as well as the smaller but memorable,

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