![]() These days she's got children, so there's less opportunity to see her. She was sweet, a great ally to have in a new, scary city. When I first moved in, Arry was great about introducing me to people. I did stick with it for quite a long time - but then, the rent was cheap. There were other lodgers who passed through and Arabella's boyfriend eventually moved in, but I was the only constant. Of course, the fact that I was from Scotland delighted her because she thought, "Oh well, you're used to it, you'll be fine," so that was a particular point of conflict. She has eased up over the years, but we used to live in near-freezing temperatures. There was a dishwasher that we were never allowed to use, goodness knows why, and she used to have a thing about never putting the heating on. She will freely admit that she's anally retentive to the point of bonkersdom. ![]() She has "areas of issue", rules about what goes where, which knife you use for cutting the bread and which you don't. She probably corrupted me, but I probably needed corrupting a little bit.Īrry's not an easy person to live with, and there were times when we nearly murdered each other - I'm sure she'll say the same about me. When I moved down I was a young 22, and Arabella used to shock me with the things she would say, but she finds it harder to shock me now. There's more than 10 years between us, but that never seems to have affected our relationship. I'd decided to move to London, Arabella needed a lodger, so I moved in for what was going to be a short time and ended up staying for five years. On set there's lots of sitting about, so you get to know people easily, and her irreverent sense of humour appealed to me. I was scared of her, but it's all front - once you get past that you find she's as just insecure and nervous as everybody else - but she does have a very urbane and witty exterior. She has a very forceful personality and for a wee skinny bloke from Bathgate it was, "Oh my word, who's this?" I was terribly green, and to me she seemed so laid back and au fait with the whole thing of being on a film set. I'd only heard her name as somebody who was coming to join the company. This was long before The Fast Show so she wasn't the star-studded celebrity she is now. Arabella came up to Glasgow to do a week on it. }}David Tennant: It was autumn 1993, I was working in Scotland and I got a lead part in a TV series called Taking Over the Asylum. ![]() In 1997 she published her first novel, "Does My Bum Look Big In This?" After college she did a variety of acting jobs and later was asked to write for "The Fast Show". He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, did his first season at the RSC in 1996, and has just started his second.Ĭomic performer and writer Arabella Weir was born in San Francisco in 1957 and grew up in London. ![]() The actor David Tennant was born in 1971 in Bathgate, Scotland. ![]()
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