David Tennant's Native Scottish Accent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2024
- I have seen so many people refer to Tooth and Claw as the episode David Tennant used his native Scottish accent. It's not! Here are some clips from the episode and other interviews and Comic Relief Scetches that show his real accent!
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Doctor Who
Staged
Graham Norton Show
Comic Relief
Not sure what happened the beginning was supposed to read: "In Doctor Who's Tooth and Claw The Doctor uses a Scottish accent, but is it David Tennant's natural accent? Listen"
Doubt anyone cares but just thought I'd explain what happened now I've figured it out. When you put a page of writing then copy and paste it and edit the second one it changes the first one, that's what happened here!
What an incredible job he did in tooth and claw to sound like some posh guy pretending to have a Scottish accent 😂
His doctor accent definitely isn’t posh!
Its not posh but it's also not regional so depends where you're from if that sounds posh to you
It's not posh
@@someenglishguy I thought it was his version of posh? Like he has this unique way of pronouncing words to make them breathy and rhythmic… and that according to RTD posh was their aim…? I’m not British so I couldn’t really tell
@@wendylee3108I mean if you hear his accent in Jessica Jones for an example, that's quite posh. The accent he does in Doctor Who is quite unique tbh. I can't place it.
The accent in Tooth and Claw was more Highland than David's own Paisley accent.
Which is fitting given the location in which the episode was set. I can tell it is different to his natural accent but I don't know enough to locate it (I'm not British). Still, I can somehow tell he's a Scotsman talking in a different Scottish accent to his own, rather than an Englishman putting on a Scottish accent, which is wht the story suggests.
The cut from "NOT ANYMORE BABY!!!" to david tennant in the 14th doctor costume lol
The BBC made that edit just after the regeneration in Power of the Doctor, that's why I selected that clip!
He does a reading of Good Omens, and it's so strange, he starts off with a Scottish accent and it morphs into a British one, I couldn't wrap my head around what was so strange with the recording when I first listened to it! (I'm not a native speaker but have been living in the UK for a while).
Edit: I just listened to that recording again, he starts with a narration bit and he uses his normal Scottish accent, and then as soon as the characters start talking, he gives them British accents and then stays with the mixed mainly British with some Scottish infusion one in the later narration bits as well. I guess it makes sense, it's such an interesting recording, I've listened to it more times than I'm willing to admit. I just love that his Aziraphale literally has a Michael voice.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk about David, his accent and Good Omens lol.
Tooth & Claw - east coast/Edinburgh
Natural accent - west coast/Glaswegian
But his accent is so soft it would pass most people by.
Michael Sheen is a similar example - he can switch between broad Porthtalbot to South Wales to just Welsh-ish
Yea, I met people with a "proper" Glaswegian accent. I didn't understand anything at all when they weren't trying to speak specifically with less accent
To my ears, David's Scottish accent is much stronger in interviews than Michael's Welsh accent is.
@@slowedndreverb He was born in Bathgate, but brought up in Paisley
I‘d do anything to be able to hear that. I really don‘t have the sensitivity as a non native speaker
His accent is so flexible and has changed towards posh over the years! It’s so amazing that he could deliver the lines in different accents but keep the authenticity and the energy in them. I watched him talking with his fellow Scotsmen and his accent got thicker and thicker as the interview went on, but like ten years ago he became much more posh (he’s kinda back to a bit Scottish now for some reasons). A friend of mine even did their linguistics paper on the change of his accent hanah
That's amazing, I'd love to read that paper lol
I think playing the doctor and other brit caracthers for so long maede that change, but He still has a Lil bit of the original scotish in there at interviews
@@flaviapetrorossidefigueire6044 Also, he's lived in London for about 30 years. He has been working in Scotland a lot in recent years, and playing more Scottish characters..
I'd also love to read that paper. Could you please ask your friend if you can share the link here?
His accent certainly gets a lot stronger when he's with other Scots. Case in point an interview with Scottish TV from early 2017 (about Mad To Be Normal). But even when he's not with other Scots, his accent always has some very distinct Scottish qualities; he's very rhotic and the way he pronounces his vowels is distinctly Scottish. It's mostly the Scottish lilt that he tones down (consciously or unconsciously).
It's a stereotypical Scottish accent. It's what people (not from Scotland) expect to hear from a Scottish person. I've seen Irish actors play Irish characters on American telly and they all sound like they're from Cork. That high pitched kind of sing songy type of voice that sounds like the lucky charms leprechaun. Even if the character is from Finglas in North Dublin, you're still going to get that accent.
As said i have a brother who has now been in London for 30 years his scottish accent has changed over the years , and he us not an actor when he comes "home" he sounds scottish. David Tennants skill is the animation he puts into a role
I had a Scottish teacher at school, lived in England 30 odd years, probably longer. Still sounds like he only moved yesterday, don't know if he ever goes home but if I ever saw him speaking to someone Scottish his accent might get stronger!
It’s important to remember for non Scots that Scottish people have two Scottish accents, we speak scots with a Scottish accent ,English with a strong Scottish accent when speaking to other Scot’s and we speak English with a Scottish accent, more anglicised when speaking to other nationalities.
And the accent is different in Edinburgh than it is in Glasgow. I always find it so funny to watch people like James McAvoy or Kevin Bridges talk in interviews because that's very much not the way they talk. Same with people from Norn Iron. I suspect James Nesbitt's accent is way thicker than what he talks with in interviews and on telly.
Wow. A long lost relative. 🙂🙂🙂
For such a small island we have a huge amount of different accents, it practically varies from county to county with even slight changes in accents in the same county.
And Aberdeen is also quite distinct, and country/coast there has its own unique vocabulary and even grammar.
AND people for whom Gaelidh is their first language, to me (an American with a lot of Scottish friends), these people speak a more intelligible English vs say, Borders.
Adorable in any language but his Scottish accent is a large part of David Tennant's charm. 😊
Im American. And I randomly developed the strongest Scottish accent ever. I'm if it was him I should blame for it😭
That's not that bad, I slipped into a British accent for a year before anyone brought it up that I was doing it. At the time I was watching a lot of British television. I had no idea that my voice had morphed to match the British language that I was hearing on tv. I still slip in and out of a British accent to this day.
It's so hard to explain to people but Scottish people who travel and need to be understood elsewhere have a selection of accents that they subconsciously slip between. I'm married to an Aberdonian lorry driver. In an average working day he goes between his home account (mostly his natural accent but smoothed a little), broad Doric accent at work, his BBC scottish accent (slight twag but clear) and BBC English for those who are rude enough to complain they don't understand anything he says. That's completely normal and often so subconscious that they slide between mid sentence.
exactly that
Tooth and Claw was the only time David’s Doctor got to be Scottish (apart from the Catherine Tate skit). 🏴😢
But it's not the same accent, that's the point of this edit
Not being British, I didn't get a lot of it. True confessions: I didn't realize DT was speaking with an American accent in Bad Samaritan until I watched it a second time. That is what, in my view makes him exceptional bc he feels authentic no matter what he says or what accent he uses. However, there was a pilot he made in which he employed an American and for me it stripped away his uniqueness. It may have just been a bad script and it never got made.
I know for non-Brits it's probably less obvious, I watch a lot of American TV yet still can't go "Oh yes that person's from this state" They are both Scottish accents but are different which when you see it like this you can tell.
@@GallifreyanRavenclaw That's too fabulous! In Good Omens, The Resurrectionist episode, I read that DT uses 3 Scottish accents. They all sound the same to me. *"G'rrrr da monay"* line DT speaks, I recognized from 'Taking Over The Asylum' in which all of the actors spoke the words: 'give her' that way (G'rrrr).
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, which is on Lake Erie. The accent is (was?) considered a standard American accent. The same state in the south (Independence, Ohio) has a southern accent almost to the extreme, yet the state of Ohio is located east on the map but categorized as Mid-West.
I moved & have lived in 4 cities in Northern, Western (middle), and Southern, Germany. In the middle Western city of Heidelberg, a town a mere 10 minutes away had a completely different accent. New York City is similar. A Brooklyn accent is totally different than Manhattan. And Americans can't (none I know of. Many Canadian celebrities fly under the radar bc their accents sound American, and by American, people mean the US.
I LOVE languages. I'm an opera singer & voice teacher & coach but learned standard pronunciations for the 5 languages I sing in. The funniest of all is when I correct a British person's pronunciation for vocal production and diction.
Thanks for this clip and exchange.
Even DT slips every now and then, though. I noticed it with Crowley a couple of times.
I'm not British either (English is not even my L1) but I guess I have an ear for accents. Or I just watch far too much TV both from the US and the UK. 🤣
@petraw9792 I'm in awe that anyone can consistently "hold" a different accent without slipping. One of my grandmothers, who regularly babysat us, was from the south. Long after she'd died, and having lived in three different US states with very different accents, then moving to, living and working in Germany, and speaking fluent German, an American from the US south brought southern pronounced words that are interspersed in my accent to my attention, which I'd been unaware of... and I'm an opera singer and vocal instructor and coach, who sings in 5 languages. By now, my accent, although still overall American, is indistinguishable and thoroughly corrupted.
As The Doctor, DT's Scot would sneak in a bit during times of an angry rant/ speech at an enemy who had made him really upset!
Naturally, everyone adapts how they speak a bit to the people around them, so the accent DT has in interviews or talking to other non-scottish people will be more RP than his natural accent.
What's the case in Tooth and Claw I think is that he didn't use his own accent, he used a different Scottish accent that he felt fit within the context. This is something I heard him talk about in an interview about Broadchurch, where even in that he doesn't use exactly his own accent, but it is a Glaswegian accent. He has a pretty good idea of small differences in Scottish accents and will pick the one that best fits the character.
I think when you're talking about what his natural accent is, then I'd say it has also changed over the years as he has probably just been around a majority English people for a long time. If you want to hear his natural Scottish accent when he was younger, I'd say the best thing I've seen is Takin' Over The Asylum (1994) which is a very Scottish TV series, intended for a Scottish audience, so there you will have him still uninfluenced by English accents.
he does something similar in good omens’ Edinburgh episode as in tooth and claw!! someone give him a glasgow episode so this man can speak naturally
I can hardly hear any difference besides that I think he sounds more Scottish in Tooth and Claw, like a thicker accent? But then I'm not a native English speaker and I admit I'm not good with any British accents. It might not have been his natural accent (but a Scottish accent nonetheless) but I just feel he made it thicker, it reminded me of how he sounded in his very early works. I feel like he did this in Broadchurch as well, or am I totally imagining things lol. I do believe his accent has changed over the years though (I mean he's lived in London for 30 years), bc he sounds different now compared to, for example, in Dramarama; I could barely understand him there haha.
He has lived in England himself for a long time but in Tooth and Claw he's doing a sterotypical Scottish accent (almost badly deliberately) rather than actually just making it easier on himself and not putting on an accent!
It's a slightly Morningside parody, eh?
@@GallifreyanRavenclaw I'd like to think it's easier for him to do a stereotypical Scottish accent than an English accent, and although he's mostly flawless, there are times when his Scottish accent has slipped through a bit hehe.
But yeah, I had 'stereotypical' in mind as well, but wasn't sure to include it bc although I can see it being that as well, 'stereotypical' doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist as an accent. It's just not his natural accent, but he's still using an accent native to Scotland (possibly with an exaggerated twang), and I think that's what most people mean when they say he got to use "his own" accent, although it would be more accurate to say that he 'got to be Scottish'. But I get how it can still be confusing to an untrained ear bc in the beginning I thought that that's how he talked, until I listened to lots of interviews and started to distinguish a difference even with my untrained ear. But his current accent is still different from what it used to be. Perhaps some early clips should've been included as well! It's quite interesting nonetheless :)
That's why the year is underneath, some of these are deliberately from around the same time, one is from an interview promoting series 3
@gallifreyanravenclaw7804 Yeah but his accent is mostly consistent in all the clips leading up to recently, but compared to Dramarama or Takin' Over the Asylum for example, the accent he's using in Tooth and Claw is quite similar I feel, despite the exaggerating twang. I think I saw some comment here calling it a Highland accent? Idk where that is in Scotland but it seems plausible?
Thought the Estuary English accent was unnecessary,his Scottish accent is fine.
What about the accent in Broadchurch? I feel like on that show his accent is super thick
I think that's pretty much his actual accent, he often dials it down so people can understand him and didn't in that
@@GallifreyanRavenclaw I think that's what his accent would be if he were living in Scotland. There's an interview he did with Scottish TV in 2017 somewhere on YT in which his accent is also really strong but not as strong as it is in Broadchurch.
What is the story in ballamorey
wouldn't you like to know
Scottish accent or no Scottish accent, I'm obsessed with his voice anyway😁😁😁
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Cool
Sounds very much like he is channeling a bit of Billy Connolly here. 😅
That does not sound like his natural accent.
I really like his choice of speaking slower, though. I'm German and when I speak in this stereotypical german accent I tend to talk slower as well, as if I have to really concentrate to put the right/wrong emphasis on the words. It's a natural thing to do, since you don't have to think about your speaking when using your natural accent, but you do have to think when putting on a fake one. His acting choice is pretty cool for exactly that reason, but it also makes it easy to tell if it's his actual accent or not.
He does the same in the Scottish minisode of Good Omens, where Crowley has an accent. It tends to gravitate more towards the heavier stereotypes, since that's what listeners would expect I guess.
SCotLAND FOrEvERR
James McCrimmon
What other Scottish name would the Doctor think of?
it's Suzie PICKLES!!! ou i hate her! hahahhahahaha
I love, love, love to hear my own accent on telly. David was born a very short distance from where I was born, too. I really dislike it when he has to put on an English or American accent for a film or some such. 🤮
He cannot do an American accent, the American Broadchurch proved that
I've only seen one episode of Gracepoint but I don't think he'd say it was amazing!
Accent is as natural as his use of botox.....
What? Genuinely what are you talking about
@@XemeraldXD FYI - he's an actor, and there's elements of his accent that he changes or emphasises.
@@saintuk70 no thats the normal part of your comment, i get that part- botox?! Him?!
@@XemeraldXD absolutely, his face has changed.
@@saintuk70 i dont know, his face has changed, but he still has pretty visible eyebags and stuff. I dont think he looks like he has botox in the spots where people usually get botox
I wonder how he feels sitting next to that Hag Jo Brand
What's wrong with Jo Brand?
They made excellent seat partners.
i wonder how your family feels knowing they have to be associated with you
What's the matter with Jo Brand?
@@RapidObsessor There are more civil Mabbotts, it has to be said.