It’s safe to say that David Tennant is one of the most adored actors to have played Doctor Who, but before he took the role, his agent was insistent that it would be a huge mistake.

On the latest episode of David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, the actor spoke with his wife, Georgia Tennant, about the beginning of his Doctor Who career. “Things aren’t working out with [ninth Doctor] Christopher Eccleston, something goes wrong there, they’re looking for a new Doctor. ‘Doctor Who’ hasn’t even been on yet though, so we don’t know if this is going to be a hit or a damn squib,” Georgia Tennant said. “But they come to you, they sort of lure you to the house with, ‘Come watch a bit of an episode.’ You go along and then they go, ‘And guess what! Do you want to play it?’ And...