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DR WHO star David Tennant materialised in Cambridge to film his latest production.
His greatest enemy, the Daleks,
were nowhere to be seen, but another foe, the British weather, had to be fought off with an umbrella.
Famous for his
role as the Time Lord, Tennant has come down to earth to play the Cambridge scientist Sir Arthur Eddington.
Fans of
the actor were out in force outside Cambridge University's Senate House in King's Parade yesterday (Thursday, 10 May) to catch
a glimpse of him.
Dressed in a brown tweed suit and brown shoes, Tennant endured the drizzling rain to film a few scenes
outside the historic building.
The production team, who also made the 2004 biopic Hawking, are busy in the city again
today (Friday, 11 May) filming more scenes for Einstein and Eddington.
The film is a collaboration between the BBC
and America's HBO films, and will also star Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in Lord of the Rings films, as Einstein.
Eddington
is the Cambridge scientist who introduced Einstein's theory of general relativity to the wider world.
Born in Kendal
in 1882, Eddington was one of the most prominent astrophysicists in the first decades of the 20th Century and the first scientist
who understood Einstein's ideas on relativity.
The two men kept up a regular correspondence during the First World
War.
The conflict meant no new developments in German science were being made widely available. But a 1920 proof of
Enstein's theory by Eddington introduced the idea of general relativity to the world. Eddington worked in Cambridge's famous
Cavendish Laboratory after graduating from Trinity College in 1905.
Eddington died in Cambridge in November 1944, aged
61.
Source: Cambridge Evening New (11 May 2007)
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