David Tennant Offers to Donate His Skull for Future Productions of Hamlet

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David Tennant has a remarkable last wish. The British actor would like to donate his skull to theatre companies that are going to perform the famous Shakespeare play Hamlet.

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David Tennant Offers to Donate His Skull for Future Productions of Hamlet

In Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the eponymous character ponders mortality while holding the skull of Yorick, the late jester to the king.David Tennant, who was the Tenth Doctor (not the tenth actor to play the Doctor) on Doctor Who, is a classically trained actor who has played Hamlet in the past. He would like to benefit future generations of actors once he has shuffled off this mortal coil. The Daily Mail reports that Tennant would …