Why does David Tennant converse in an English accent when he is acting in Doctor Who, whereas in everything else he does, he speaks in his normal Scottish accent?
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Biggie15
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Good question i guess the only person to know that would be him
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I've been thinking this for a while now. Here's a recent question I asked on the subject http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/183391. I don't really know myself, but I guess all Time Lords speak in an English accent, so he does the same. Maybe the only people to get an answer from would be Tennant himself
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Well, if he didn't speak English, no-one would be able to understand him. I remember a scene with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper from the previous series when Billie asks the doctor why he speaks with a Manchester accent when he's from planet Galliferey, and the Doctor says, "Well, we have a North you know." I thought that was funny.
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maybe the producers of the show asked him to tone down the scottish accent for the sake of the non british watchers.
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he speaks only in his scottish accsent when he is with people who know him. but on doctor who, he has to speak in his english accsent because of tv, i think. thanks for the question.
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"THE Doctor Who actor David Tennant has told how he was asked to abandon his Scottish accent to play the Time Lord. The 34-year-old actor said scriptwriter Russell T Davies did not want the latest Doctor to have an accent. The most recent incumbent, Christopher Eccleston, used his Manchester accent in the role, but Tennant stunned fans by dumping his native Scots lilt. He said: "Russell said we'd like to not go for another obvious regional accent, because I suppose they'd done that. Not that, I hasten to add, a slightly off-London accent isn't a regional accent, because it is, but it reads slightly more generically than a Scottish accent does. "Russell said, 'that's how we'd like to take it', and I was quite happy to go with that."" Source and further information: http://totallytennant.blogspot.com/
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Because he is an actor and actors can use different accents as part of their craft. Ewan McGregor is extremely adept at changing his accent. His American is astoundingly good as is Hugh Laurie's. McGregor is Scottish and Laurie is English.
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Biggie15, excellent question. We're talking about the B.B.C. here, not exactly a pro-Scottish institution. Jangobean, the question was not about speaking English but about speaking in an English accent. Big difference. Iwnit, your comment about speaking without an accent is ridiculous. There is not such thing! If you look at the original question, it was referring to him speaking with an English accent, which he does in the programme. What Russell Davies obviously wanted was for him to put on an English accent. Iozhippy, what's this about toning down his Scottish accent for non-British viewers? If by toning down, you mean taking on an English accent, how is that for non-British viewers?
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Biggie15, excellent question. We're talking about the B.B.C. here, not exactly a pro-Scottish institution. Jangobean, the question was not about speaking English but about speaking in an English accent. Big difference. Iwnit, your comment about speaking without an accent is ridiculous. There is no such thing! If you look at the original question, it was referring to him speaking with an English accent, which he does in the programme. What Russell Davies obviously wanted was for him to put on an English accent. Iozhippy, what's this about toning down his Scottish accent for non-British viewers? If by toning down, you mean taking on an English accent, how is that for non-British viewers?
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He's an actor, that's what they do.
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