I can't believe how brilliantly David Tennant played Casanova. I didn't rate him much in "Blackpool" but now i'm definitely a fan. (I may even watch Dr Who when he takes over!)
He comes across as sexy, cheeky and charismatic. If the real Casanova was half the man David Tennant portrayed, no wonder he was so successful with women. I for one would love to be seduced by him.
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Indeedy...he'd have had me well and truly by now *swoon*
Great programme- everything about it oozed sensuality and charisma oooh
it is a great progamme n david is so nice. he make it more appealing to watch. he is lovely n them eye clouor real tht shade.
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I know is late for this reply,but because I saw Casanova and I have it on DVD.
I had to answer,you rigth,jimmybellrules in every thing you mentioned about David and the programme!
david is simply gorgeous in this, and i dont just mean looks. Im completely smitten. I fell in love with him as the doctor and watching this was just a treat! raunchy love making and those BOOTS! David Tennant = SEX
god bless Russell T Davies for this and doctor who
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Oh man, he was so amazing! I wanted to be his latest conquest *swoon* He was sooo sexy with his blue contacts and bordering-on-insane personality which also comes across in Doctor Who.
If only the series was longer...
"I would never let you fall."
I know the injustice of only three episodes!
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I know! I am strictly rationing my viewing so that it will seem to last me longer.
Insolent piece of crockery!
I know - he was so terrific in this! So lovely! I'm from Oz - I got this on dvd *sigh* I think this was the first thing i ever saw him in - he's an amazing Doctor Who as well!
I actually prefered this to the new Heath Ledger film - this was wild!
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Brilliant, absolutely brilliant...just saw this on PBS last night. I spent most of the program thinking "WHERE have I seen this actor recently?" I woke up with it this morning: "That's right! Harry Potter!"
Anyway, I loved it.
Hamlet...in love...with the old man's daughter...the old man...thinks.
He is just the best I love the pony tale! cute cute cute!!! hot hot hot!!! yum yum yum!!!
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wouldn't it be fun if Doctor who and Casanova crossed paths?
I can just see it now (david playing both of course!)
Casanova: "My aren't you an handsome devil"
Doctor: "Ta very much, your not so bad yourself!"
Casanova: "I swear. It's almost like looking in a mirror! In fact you're so Handsome i could kiss you."
Doctor: "Steady on! Have you met rose?"
This post kind of makes me insanely happy.
shareWhen I first saw the previews for Casanova on PBS I was thinking he really didnt look that attractive to me...then I actually watched Casanova. Hot damn that man is sexy. His smile kills me. Being that I am an American I have never heard (or I dont remember ever hearing) of David Tennent - but I looked him up online and I know a little bit more about him. I'll definatly be looking into watching Dr. Who sometime.
sharewell he's far more attrative than the real cassanova. He was an ugly begger!!!
shareOh yes ive seen pictures... ew.
shareI love watching Masterpiece Theater movies & Casanova was definately 1 of the best 1s. David Tennant is definately a hottie. I love watching him in Doctor Who & I can't wait to see him in Harry Potter GOF whenever it comes out on TV.
Tonee
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It's a real tragedy, I've not actually seen any of Casanova yet. Really want to though, David Tennant is amaaaziiinng! If all men were like him, I'd be in heaven...mmm. AND he makes a fantastic Doctor Who! I'll be gutted when he leaves, which apparently he is planning to do! Anyone here know any more on that?
Anyway, I'm off on a hunt to get Casanova on DVD now. Wish me luck! =P
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I just downloaded it from the Demonoid Bit Torrent site, it looks marvelous!
shareNo, he bloody well isn't.Read Casanova's autobiography and see. Believe me,you won't be able to put it down once you start reading it. David Tennant is just a cheeky, Big Brother contestant-type,miles removed from the real Casanova, whose charm, appeal and intellect, not to mention his moderness (sp?) has been remembered and admired all this time. For those of you who said you saw portraits of Casanova and thought he looked ugly,I don't think you can expect people living in the 18th century to have the same ideals of beauty that we do today.I mean, people thought wearing wigs was sexy, for Godssake!But Casanova isn't supposed to be a heart-throb or pretty poster-boy. He was an amazing historical figure for a million other reasons, that could appeal to anyone, not just scholars. By the way, apparently most of Casanova's portraits were painted when he was middle-aged anyway. Here's one I came across-http://www.chocolate.org/misc/giacomo-casanova.html
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You just called David Tennant a poster boy.
He doesn't even consider himself attractive. And the part wasn't written for someone attractive.
"When I saw the list of people up for it I thought, "Oh well, it will go to the beautiful boys".
And that's not how you see yourself?
'I don't think I am, no. What?'
Nothing, I'm just raising a sceptical eyebrow. Have you not read any of the press that's put you in that category?
'I genuinely don't think I am, I've never read anything that suggests I might be ... whatever you're suggesting,' he mumbles. 'I think that's precisely why I got Casanova, because they didn't want that, they wanted him to be a cheeky chappie - that's why his love rival is Rupert Penry Jones, who's 6ft 2in. It was all about the wit and the words.'
-David Tennant interview, october 2005.
'The minute his audition tape started, I just went, "Oh, that's it," I'd thought when I was writing Casanova that if he's just handsome, it makes all the women in the script stupid. Being sexy is not just about good looks, and he walked that audition.'
-Russell T Davies.
Please, if you are going to make a comment about someone being a heart throb, make sure that's why they actually got the role. Mr. Tennant is usually the first to say that he himself is not conventionally attractive.
OK, "Poster boy" perhaps wasn't the best term to use. But the topic is about whether we think David Tennant IS Casanova, and I don't think so, especially after reading Casanova's Memoirs.Most people here aren't interested in them,though, from what I can see.Interestingly, Casanova himself didn't think he was a handsome man, and is very self-deprecating.In his Memoirs he candidly admits that though he doesn't think he's very good-looking,he believes himself to have a certain "something".David Tennant clearly had a Big Brother contestant kind of appeal,though,especially with the script he was given and the way he was made to deliver it - maybe that's what I meant by poster-boy, which I admit wasn't the best way to describe him.If you read Casanova's Memoirs,though,you'll see why I wrote that David Tennant ISN'T Casanova.This mini-series is just about some cheeky English lad dressed in period costume, not about Casanova.I'm not saying it was a bad mini-series,but it wasn't as accurate as everyone here seems to assume.Just read the bloody Memoirs, is what I say!
shareI read the memoirs just after I watched the mini series so I guess my answer will be found to be slightly biased. I think it was a good protayal of Casanova. The memoires were good, but didn't bring Giacomo to life for me. Whilst Tennant is a good actor, plays the part well and is undoubtably good looking, it's important to realise that he was playing Casanova the way he felt he was, not the way you or I or others feel Casanova should be played. The ability to do this makes a good actor. This is why neither you nor I are actors! He played a good part, he brought the character to life especially for English people like myself and my friends (not all of which are girls need I say). It was a job well done!
Keeks xx
That's odd, because no one I've spoken to who's actually read the Memoirs--all of them!-- has said they were anything less than rivetting. Perhaps you were subconsciously expecting the same wise-cracking English humour full of nudging and cheeky innuendo and 21st century popular culture references in a memoir written by an 18th century Venetian man. When you didn't find those things, you then maybe decided it didn't bring Casanova to life like David Tennant did! But you do realise there's no objectivity in that.Also your argument about you and I not being actors,which makes Tennant some sort of authority on what Casanova was like, makes no sense, sorry. That would mean that if an actress played Mother Theresa as a Paris Hilton-type party animal, we would have no right to criticise her performance because we're not actors!
If it's of any interest to you or other people, please have a quick glance at the Amazon user reviews for Casanova's life story. The Willard Trask edition has virtually all 5 stars out of 5 and gushing reviews from random readers, not necessarily academic types. It just sounds to me like some people responded to the David Tennant version of Casanova more than the historic reality because it's the one they preferred, not because they have a clue or care to have a clue about the historic Casanova, his times and world. In actual fact this miniseries is a little too populist and Big Brother generation-friendly to even claim to be anything but fluff. Come on, some of the dialogue was silly beyond belief--it was cringeworthy, even. "Bollocks" indeed! In this miniseries Casanova was just some cheeky English lad, not one of the 18th centuries' greatest minds by a stretch.
But then, the people who loved this series probably didn't want him to be anything beyond Tennant's portrayal. Had the character played by Tennant been just fictional, rather than based on a real person, I probably would have enjoyed this mini-series a lot more, and appreciated it for the silly romp that it was. What bothers me is that people are saying this is the ultimate historic Casanova, which it so clearly isn't if you know anything at all about the reality from reliable academic sources, or even just from reading the Memoirs with an unbiased mind. If the pop culture Casanova is the one you and other people preferred, it's no skin off my back, honestly. But I was responding to the original poster's opinion. Besides, I think David Tennant played the role as the director and script required him to play it, and in those terms he did a good job. But you make it sound like he bloody well invented Casanova, or something, and that Casanova as a fascinating historic character had never existed before Tennant came along! It's like saying you like a piece of classical music, but only if it's been sampled into a dance tune, and then saying it's THE piece!
I guess you're right, as i did mention in the beginning I guessed i would be a little biased... so perhaps I was more than a little! I never said that noone had a right to critise, certainly if paris hilton played mother teresa then i would be more than a little put out, but i believe that actors need to be able to put themselves into a character and David Tennant was acting Casanova the way that he felt he should be portrayed. I don't know if he had read the memoirs, or if he was just going by what the script said to do, but it was his personal opinion. If he had done a shocking performance then he is to be criticised, but as he performance was, in my opinion good, i see no reason to criticise it too harshly.
Maybe some people did respond to this version better than the memoirs because of the reasons stated, but as i did read all the memoirs, and do care for historical information, i found it charming. Whilst not staying true to the time period, i appreciated that this was made for a wider audience, and it was meant to be taken as light hearted, not something serious to be reflected back on as a reference for behaviour in those times.
I didn't mean to sound that he never exsisted before Tennant came along, but Tennant brought him to life for me in my mind. By applying the memoirs to Tennants acting I felt that i could relate to the character. Perhaps i'm not one of the lucky ones who can easily imagine the escapades without help!
David Tennant was very good with the material he was given, I'm not denying that.The fact he was good was never something I questioned. I was referring directly to the original post--I don't think Tennant was the ultimate Casanova,that's all. The ultimate Casanova was Casanova himself, a truly unique and fascinating character on his own,and since he's been dead over two hundred years,we can still only find him as he really was--or close enough--in his Memoirs.
That said,this version of Casanova's story was miles better than the silly Heath Ledger movie,which didn't even bother to follow any of the episodes in the Memoirs! It was mostly all made up, rom-com nonsense. Why would they need to make up a romantic heroine when you have a perfect one in Henriette, who actually existed?? At least most of the characters in this mini-series actually lived.By the way, you should check out some of the letters that Casanova and Henriette wrote each other well into old age. They were so sincere,moving and romantic,they brought a lump to your throat!