This November, David Tennant will be coming back to “Doctor Who” as the Tenth Doctor opposite Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor in the “Doctor Who” 50th Anniversary Special. From all accounts, Tennant and Smith really enjoyed working together. And during a new interview, Tennant openly praised his successor.
While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Tennant said “I suppose you’d expect me to say we’re new best friends and I love him like a brother. But that is sort of how it was. I had a fantastic time and that wouldn’t necessarily have been the case. I’m coming back onto a show that’s effectively somebody else’s show and used to be mine and that’s potentially quite a weird situation to be in.”
“Going back to something I knew so well and had such fun memories of might have backfired,” continued Tennant. “ It’s a quite rare set of circumstances: Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig don’t get to play James Bond next to each other. But actually it felt familiar enough that it was like coming home and working with Matt proved to be a real joy. I hope I’m speaking for him when I say we really enjoyed bouncing of each other and playing sort of two aspects of the same character.”
Tennant added that “It was everything that I hoped it might be and nothing that I feared it could be.”
Billie Piper will also return for the 50th Anniversary Special alongside Jenna Coleman and John Hurt as a mysterious incarnation of the Doctor himself.
The “Doctor Who” 50th Anniversary Special will be simulcast around the world on November 23.
