Tate Modern, in Otto Bathurst, Black Mirror, The National Anthem, S01E01, 2011 (feat. Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, Donald Sumpter, Tom Goodman-Hill, Anna Wilson-Jones, Lydia Wilson).
“And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”
On Wednesday 18 February David Tennant was recording pick-up shots on Planet of the Dead at Upper Boat and performing a photoshoot with Michelle Ryan, before he departed for the Waters of Mars readthrough. This saw the arrival of guest star Lindsay Duncan who had been cast as Adelaide.
On Saturday 21 February David Tennant got to meet up with his successor, Matt Smith, and one of his predecessors, Peter Davison, who had played the Fifth Doctor (and whose daughter he was dating), over dinner at incoming showrunner Steven Moffat’s home.
“This is the beginning of the end for the Tenth Doctor,” commented David Tennant of the Autumn Special, recording of which began with a week of night shoots, commencing at 2pm on Monday 23 February. Only David Tennant and Aleksander Mikic - who played Yuri - were required on this first day; both artists were in spacesuits (with David’s outfit having a new headpiece attached to the original suit from The Impossible Planet).
