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David Tennant has revealed he’d be willing to donate his own skull for use in future productions of Hamlet. David was asked on the Off Menu podcast if he’d leave any bones to theatre and replied he’d “very happily” appear in another Hamlet production, even if it’s just as a skull.
‘I’d very happily appear again in a production of Hamlet playing a different part, yeah. There’s something glorious about that.’
Remembering his time as Hamlet, David recalled: ‘We had a real skull. We had the skull of a real human - a guy called Andre Tchaikovsky who was a classical musician who had left his skull to The Royal Shakespeare Company to appear in a production of Hamlet.
‘So I did not have to fake any weight there. I was holding Andre, he was Yorick. I was really really thrilled, not in a macabre way.
‘That moment in the play is about connecting with mortality, so there’s no acting involved, you’re looking into the eyes of a human who once walked the Earth. There’s something very powerful about that.’
‘I’d very happily appear again in a production of Hamlet playing a different part, yeah. There’s something glorious about that.’
Remembering his time as Hamlet, David recalled: ‘We had a real skull. We had the skull of a real human - a guy called Andre Tchaikovsky who was a classical musician who had left his skull to The Royal Shakespeare Company to appear in a production of Hamlet.
‘So I did not have to fake any weight there. I was holding Andre, he was Yorick. I was really really thrilled, not in a macabre way.
‘That moment in the play is about connecting with mortality, so there’s no acting involved, you’re looking into the eyes of a human who once walked the Earth. There’s something very powerful about that.’