David Tennant in the Guardian - the irony!

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Can't believe he's so unaware that he thinks the trans side of the debate is the one that's been silenced! (about two thirds of the way down the article).

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/10/david-tennant-tv-baftas-interview

But that's the difference between you and parents who have enthusiastically affirmed their child's stated gender identity.

If it all goes horribly wrong for your daughter (which I really hope it doesn't) you will at least have some small comfort in knowing you tried to stop her.

Susie Green and Jolyon Maugham and David Tennant will never be able to say that, so they'll have to keep pretending it was the right thing to do until they draw their last breath. Because the alternative is admitting that they actively harmed their children.

Same here - I’m so glad nobody from the TRA side got hold of her!

@ghostyslovesheets oooooh there you are. Did you see this? https://unherd.com/2025/03/midnight-panty-raids-on-mumsnet/

Omg @ProfessorFellatioHornblower thats BMC!

He’s an actor who I’ve never really believed, IYKWIM. Some actors become the character, to the point where even if you know their normal demeanour it’s so hard to imagine the character isn’t real.
DT is always…well, DT. On TV, in films. Sometimes he does an accent, sometimes he dyes his hair, but he’s always…him. That guy we all know called David.
For an actor of that level, he’s extremely beloved. But he isn’t going to win an oscar, is he.

But - anyone could leave a job and sign on the same day with no intrusive crap or long delay in getting your giro. ie, it was expecting that if you hated your job or were mistreated, the state would help you a little bit as you found something else. It was easy enough to get “ordinary” jobs - little was regulated as it is now - lads could get building site work without a construction safety certificate, childminding wasn’t registered with OFSTED. Of course most of the subsequent regulation is good and for worker/customer safety but there was so much fluidity that doesn’t exist now.

I know right!!!

He has not said anything about either Neil Gaiman or John Barrowman, so isnt that bothered about abuse and intimidation of women. Re Barrowman, when Christopher Eccleston when he left Doctor Who because it was a 'toxic atmosphere ' I thought he was overreacting because obviously David Tennant was working with the same people and he was fine. But since Eccleston had a problem with Barrowman and his willy waving behaviour but Tenant not only thought it was funny but made up a song about it for a laugh, I think I misjudged both of them.

I have to give him his due, I think he's better on stage than on screen, he does Shakespeare well.

Yes, that definitely tells you a lot about his attitude to women. Is that why Eccleston left then?

I was Foxy! Who were you if you don’t mind revealing your secret identity 😂

That and the other one, Noel Clarke (Mickey) who has sexual harassment allegations from 20 women who worked with him in his Dr Who days. I can't imagine Tennant gives a shit what happens to women (the original type, not the stunning and brave new ones with penises).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57021060

I've always thought he's excellent at playing creepy, controlling villians.

Which doesn't necessarily contradict your point.

It was hard to get Jobs in the early 80s although I wasn't looking for work on a building site. We had YOPs and YTS as kids couldn't get work. I can't say for later as I wasn't looking for work but the days of leaving a job and starting another the following week were long gone, I remember those days but they weren't the 80s. I can't say about giros as I never had one but childminders did have to be registered with the local authority.

He and Gary Lineker are two examples of men who are (or were, in Lineker’s case) very good at what they do and wrongly think that means their (not particularly well-informed) opinion is worth more than other people’s.

I liked him in Takin' Over The Asylum, Ken Stott was also good in it but then I think he's good in everything. Katy Murphy was also brilliant in it.

I think I might want to see it again.

I sometimes get very strong vibes about certain people, real gut instincts. I ignored them until fairly recently when I realised that one by one these men were proving my instincts right.
David Tennant is one of these. I’ve always felt that there’s a very angry misogynist hidden beneath the surface. Given his actions in the last few months I’m going to assume that my instincts were correct.

He's a wanker

Dd (then aged about 16/17,shes now 28) met him in sainsburys and politely asked for his autograph (she loved Doctor who and was so excited to meet her hero)

He couldn't have been more rude to her-he really looked down his beaky snout at her as he told her to 'go away' (he didn't put it quite like that) and refused to sign her piece of paper

She was devastated and came home in tears

Your only as big as your fans make you,and that wanker lost one that day

I cannot stand him-and he can get further in the bin for this crap too

How dare this poor excuse for a male human dare try to put women in their place?

I pity his poor kid having an arsehole like that for a father-how he ever found a woman to get pregnant is beyond me

Do you know him personally? Because if not, you cannot personally know that he’s ‘a thoroughly nice human being’. You know what he wants you to know and what you choose to believe about him. Do I have to list all of the men in the public eye who were previously thought to be ‘thoroughly nice human beings’ until we found out that they weren’t?

Thoroughly nice human beings don’t make vitriolic, public, and misogynistic attacks on successful women because they understand biological facts and he doesn’t, and because their ‘views don’t align with his own’.

He was very good in Jessica Jones playing exactly that kind of character.

Otherwise... no, he's never had that Frances McDormand ability to disappear into the character.

I'm not a fan of actors sounding off about their views of society in general, but there are particular actors who I get a very negative vibe from. If DT had been a generation older, I bet he'd have been one of the many actors who adopted Gerry Healy as his messiah.

He’s an absolute idiot - who thinks of himself the complete opposite. I wish he’d fuck off

This is the thing I find most bewildering.

Pop stars, actors, TV presenters, who cares what they think? They could be great or terrible at what they do, they could be lovely or mean spirited, they could be right or left politically or obsessed with one particular cause…none of this, nothing, makes them worth listening to.

They’re just fucking performers!

Where did Tennant get his special insight? On the planet GRC 96 in the Trans constellation, while helping self-ID Cyberwomen fight the dreaded Terfs, allies of the Daleks?

The ones I particularly resent are fabulously wealthy Hollywood types lecturing the world. Do you live in Beverly Hills and have a private jet? Quick, tell me about not using planes, or about poverty. 🙄

I've always felt exactly the same! Along with Russell Brand...

I think with DT, I can almost believe him not being aware of what Noel Clarke was up to, because NC unexpectedly became famous and went off to do some production of his own, and that seems to have been the site of the dodgy behaviour. Though I'd ask where NC learned that behaviour.

I don't believe for a second that he was unaware of John Barrowman waving his jimmy joe around on set, because he was notorious for that long before Who, and anyone who's been in proximity to Barrowman has seen him do it. It seems that RTD and his chums just found that hilarious.

And then there's Neil Gaiman, and you have to ask, how come David Tennant keeps finding himself working closely with all these dodgy men and seems completely oblivious to what they're doing?

No but his misogyny does.