There are certain actors who just take to a role like a duck to water, and David Tennant has done that more than most. Whether it is his stellar turn as Doctor Who, which proved so popular that the show has struggled to match it since his departure, the darker and harder hitting detective role in Broadchurch, or more recently his deliciously wicked take on the demon Crowley in the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett series Good Omens, Tennant just seems to be able to bring his talent to many guises when asked. So it is no surprise that Tennant was always first choice when it came to his Good Omens role, which he will be reprising in the second season of the comic fantasy that is currently filming for a late 2022 release. However, while Tennant was always the man for the job in Neil Gaiman’s eyes, the studio at one point wanted to put Johnny Depp in the role.
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It is fair to say that, as is usual in these cases, the studio were wrong and the creator was right, as the popularity of David Tennant and his co-star Michael Sheen’s on screen partnership is what ultimately made the series work even better. In fact, the pair’s brilliant chemistry trickled over into another project starring the two friends, when they produced Staged, a sitcom filmed and based during the Covid pandemic, which played on how many interactions were carried out via internet meetings, which sometimes became a little bizarre and frayed. As well as being hilarious and entertaining in its own right, Staged also gave everyone who had taken part in a Zoom call over the last two years a new appreciation for the communication method.
