David Tennant spoke to Newsweek about playing Alexander Litvinenko in the new AMC+ drama 'Litvinenko' and the challenges of taking on such a role.
Having Marina Litvinenko involved in the drama did make the cast feel a level of responsibility when telling her and her husband's story, though, Tennant said.
"There was one moment where I remember I just looked up and saw Margarita playing Marina," he said."And seeing this woman at the end of the bed it just all felt terribly personal, terribly tragic, and awful. "There is a lot of material around, obviously you can hear Sasha talking," Tennant went on."There's not a lot of recordings of Sasha speaking in English but there's quite a lot of him talking in Russian, and I could watch him and try and connect with him. I never had the pleasure of meeting him but Marina was very generous with her time and material to work with, and that's just part of the process.
Even so, learning how to speak Russian and use the accent proved a challenge, particularly"finding your way into that dialect and dialogue because it's so foreign to a British mouth, as it were," Tennant explained. Reflecting on his biggest challenge, Tennant went on:"I suppose it was probably just getting to that stage, and then you just have to kind of jump out of the plane really, you have to be in the moment.
"I think this was a significant moment in the way we, in terms of society, regarded Putin," he said."I think until that point the rest of the world was so keen that Putin should be a world player that we can all do business with. It was such a need for that to be true that we were willing to overlook some of the less savory aspects of him as a world leader, and after this moment I think the scales fell from everyone's eyes to an extent.
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