{"id":52381,"date":"2024-05-30T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2048733"},"modified":"2024-05-30T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:56:26","slug":"matt-smith-reveals-advice-david-tennant-gave-him-for-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/matt-smith-reveals-advice-david-tennant-gave-him-for-doctor-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Smith reveals advice David Tennant gave him for Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smith described playing the Doctor as “magic”. <\/p>

By Katelyn Mensah\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 30 May 2024 at 13:43 PM<\/p>

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Picture it: It\u2019s 2010, David Tennant<\/a> had his last moments as the Doctor (or so we thought)<\/a> and Matt Smith<\/a> was introduced as the charming and witty Eleventh Doctor. But just how did he prepare for such a mammoth of a role?<\/p>\n

As many Doctor Who<\/a> fans will know, there are so many facets to the Time Lord \u2013 and that was no easy feat for Smith to master when he stepped into the shoes of so many before him.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Variety<\/a>, Smith opened up about how one former Doctor in particular offered him advice on mastering the role.<\/p>\n

The actor, who is set to star in the second season of House of the Dragon<\/a>, revealed that David Tennant gave him a tip on learning his lines.<\/p>\n

Smith explained: \u201cThe line-learning for that job was insatiable, and David Tennant, God love him, said to me when I phoned him [after] I\u2019d got the job and asked him for bits of advice and he was really generous with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was like, \u2018Learn all of your lines on the Sunday,\u2019 because you\u2019ve got to go back and do them, because you\u2019re shooting like 10 pages a day.\u201d<\/p>

Reflecting on playing the Doctor, Smith noted that the character is \u201cthe vocal point for the exposition\u201d, because he says quite literally everything he sees.<\/p>\n

Smith continued: \u201cObviously, it\u2019s television, so you\u2019re not doing it visually in quite the same way you would in a film. You\u2019ve got to explain what\u2019s going on to the audience because the story has to move so quickly. So the line learning was just off the Richter scale, a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Smith has gone on to take on various other roles, including Prince Charles in The Crown<\/a>, he noted Doctor Who as \u201cone of the greatest experiences\u201d of his life, not just for him but also his friends and family.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe day-to-day of having to think like the Doctor is like magic, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

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