My girlfriend actually knew David Tennant pre-Doctor Who; he was in a movie by a swedish director she is crazy about (or something like that.), although apparntly she didn't find him terribly attractive way back then. When she first saw him as the Doctor she said something like "He's gotten cooler now that he is older."
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