David Tennant is the talk of the steamie at the moment after his 'blood-curdling' performance as Scottish serial killer Des Nilsen left viewers of new ITV show Des terrified last night.
The first episode of the crime drama about the infamous Muswell Hill killer, who died back in prison back in 2018, saw the former Doctor Who actor widely praised for his performance.
And his creepy role is a far cry from Tennant's first ever appearance on screen, which came back in 1987 in an anti-smoking advert for Glasgow Health Board while he was a fresh-faced 15-year-old.
The advert features Tennant - dodgy mullet and all - having a brief kick-about in a park before joining two female pals to smoke behind a school - with one of the girls on the receiving end of some verbal abuse from 'bad boy' Tennant for her decision no to smoke with him and the other girl.
Speaking about his first acting gig to ABC News back in 2015, Tennant said: "I was a kid still, I was I think 15 maybe. And I did, for the local authority in Glasgow I did an anti-smoking film for school kids. That was the very first thing I did.
"It was a little sort of 10-minute film and I played the kind of bad kid who was smoking. I had never had a cigarette in my life and I turned up for this thing - this was my first professional gig - and they gave me a cigarette and I didn't know what to do with it. And if you can find that film, I don't know if you can I think it's buried, you'll notice that I manage to never actually light the thing.
"I do a lot of Brando-esque gesturing with this cigarette at 15 and I managed to play with it enough for my little 30 second scene that I never actually lit it.... I got away with it, playing the badboy.
"It got me my equity card, my union card. It got me started."
Like all actors, they all have to start somewhere!
