Crowds flock to see David Tennant in new clip from Mad to Be Normal
The Broadchurch and Doctor Who star plays Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing in a new biopic
You may be used to seeing David Tennant as dour and dreary DI Hardy in Broadchurch – a man who can't even understand the simple joy in a scotch egg. But in the actor's next role, he undergoes a transformation...
Gone is the dishevelled suit and stubbly chin and in their place is a suave, clean-shaven Tennant who looks rather rock star-like as he takes the stage in new film Mad to Be Normal.
The maroon suit, patterned shirt and slicked back hair probably have something to do with the students flooding into a lecture hall to hear him speak – but, then again, the high attendance is just what you'd expect from RD Laing (played by Tennant) who was something of a sensation back in his sixties heyday.
The film – released on 6th April – tells the story of the Scottish psychiatrist's life and the unique community he fostered at Kingsley Hall in east London. Flying in the face of popular psychiatric thinking of the day, Laing had his own revolutionary take on mental health treatment and became enormously popular in the 1960s and 70s.
Mad to Be Normal features Tennant as the psychiatrist alongside a string of fictionalised characters played by Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon (Harry Potter, Maigret) and Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment).
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It is released in UK cinemas on 6th April.
