She says she didn’t think she and Tennant would ever get the opportunity to work together again.
Hard Cell’s Catherine Tate has opened up about her return to Doctor Who. In a recent interview with The One Show (as reported by The Radio Times), Tate revealed she didn’t think a reunion with former co-star David Tennant would be possible, jumping on the opportunity to appear in the upcoming 60th anniversary specials.
In the interview with the British chat show, Tate expressed her joy in reprising her role as Donna Noble in the sci-fi series. “Oh gosh, of course it was [a yes]. Absolutely a no-brainer,” Tate (Rally Road Racers, The Nan Movie) said of her decision to return. She confessed that neither she nor Tennant (Good Omens) believed the opportunity would come again for them to work together on the show. “I don’t think David and I thought for a second we’d ever get another bite of those cherries. And we did.” She went on to add that despite the years that have passed since her 2010 special appearance, working with Tennant again was easy. “And it was like, I think for the both of us, it was like slipping into old slippers,” she said.
Tate first appeared in Doctor Who as the Tenth Doctor’s companion in 2006 in the final scene of Season 2. Whilst she also appeared in the Christmas special that year, it wasn’t until Season 4 that she returned as Donna Noble (later Donna Temple-Noble). Tennant’s first return to the series after his stint as the Tenth Doctor was in 2013 for the show’s 50th anniversary, which also saw Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie, Catherine Called Birdy) return as the episode’s Bad Wolf after her role as Rose Tyler. Tennant also returned briefly to the series as the Fourteenth Doctor, a role he will play again in the specials. The news that she and Tennant would be returning after almost fifteen years apart came last month, when the three anniversary specials for the show’s sixtieth birthday were first announced, set to air later this year. A trailer released at the same time revealed the specials would be titled ‘The Star Beast,’ ‘Wild Blue Yonder,’ and ‘The Giggle.’
