The Stage

Tennant to star in Einstein drama for BBC2

Published Friday 18 May 2007 at 16:50 by Matthew Hemley

David Tennant is to star in a BBC2 drama about the life of Albert Einstein and the man who helped his theory of relativity achieve global recognition.

Einstein and Eddington will feature Lord of the Ring’s actor Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein and Tennant as British scientist Arthur Eddington. The cast also includes Jim Broadbent, Lucy Cohu and Rebecca Hall.

The drama, made by Shameless producer Company Pictures, will tell the story of how Einstein and Eddington forged a relationship that helped Einstein became a worldwide success.

It follows Eddington as a champion of Einstein’s theory at a time when the British scientific community and the public were rejecting anything German following the First World War.

When Eddington goes to Africa to photograph light bending around the sun during an eclipse, Einstein’s theory is proved to be correct.

The drama will transmit on BBC2 later this year.