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= June 20 =

David Tennant - Tenth Doctor's accent
In Doctor Who, why did Scottish actor David Tennant play the 10th Doctor in a English accent, rather than his own? 109.158.183.53 (talk) 15:41, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe so he could be understood? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:51, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Clearly you haven't heard his native accent, which is very easily understood. If you don't know anything about the question, don't post. Fgf10 (talk) 07:19, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The nanny awaketh. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The question can be answered in the exact article you already linked on the tenth doctor. I won't insult you further by quoting the answer back at you, I trust you can find it just fine.  -- Jayron 32 20:17, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It is said that the line "There's a platoon of Judoon on the moon" was written as a joke, because the oo sound was difficult for a Scot to say with an English accent. Wymspen (talk) 09:49, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

According to the article, David Tennant told SFX magazine that Russell T Davies had asked him to drop his Scottish accent, because he felt that he would not like to go for another obvious regional accent, because he supposed they had done that. In a interview on BBC Radio 1, Tennant explained that a line has ben scripted for the Christmas special explaining that the new Doctor had imprinted on Rose Tyler's accent, 'like a chick hatching from an egg', but that line was cut from the final episode. 81.97.79.145 (talk) 20:49, 25 June 2016 (UTC)