Georgia Tennant told she wasn’t ‘convincing’ as David Tennant’s on-screen wife, despite real-life marriage

Casting director made the comments to the actor, who now appears alongside her husband in Staged

Georgia Tennant was told by a casting director that she “wasn’t convincing” acting as the wife of a character played by David Tennant.

Tennant has been married to the former Doctor Who star since 2011, and recently starred as his on-screen spouse for the first time, in the BBC sitcom Staged.

Speaking to Radio Times, Tennant said that “nobody wanted to let me” play alongside Tennant before.

“For one part I was told by a casting director that I wasn’t a convincing partner for him,” she said. “I was like, ‘But we’re married. With quite a few kids!’”

Staged stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen as two theatrical actors preparing to stage a production while in coronavirus lockdown.

The programme, which debuted the first episode of its second series last night, was filmed from Tennant and Sheen’s own homes, under social distancing conditions.

“Basically, every actor who could possibly play the part would have to be eliminated in order for me to be allowed to play his wife,” joked Tennant.

“I don’t think this is something we would have imagined we’d have done,” David Tennant explained, in the same interview. “And anyway, imagine having to tell my wife that she was being played by someone else.”