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DAVID Tennant looks completelty different as he takes on an epic new role in ITVX's new drame Litvinenko.
The actor looks world's away from his usual self in the programme centred around the story of Alexander Litvinenko.
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The brand new drama will debut on ITV's brand new streaming platform ITVX from the 15th December and will tell the true tale of the events of November 2006.
Across four episodes, David will play Litvinenko, the former Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer, whose death from Polonium-210 poisoning in November 2006 triggered one of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
In the first look trailer, David's character Litvinenko can be heard saying: "My name is Alexander Litvinenko, I need to report a murder."
In a hospital bed, a police officer quickly questions him, asking: "Whose murder?"
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Litvienko eerily replies: "Mine."
He continues talking to the officer from the bed, saying in a Russian accent: "I write book about Russia, about corruption. They want to kill me."
The officer asks: "You have a name?"
As a TV screen flashes up, he responds: "His name is Vladimir Putin."
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The trailer then depicts officers working on the case as one recounts: "You follow the poison, you find the poisoner."
Alexander died 22 days after the poisoning, and the new drama will follow the Metropolitan Police's investigation into his death.
For the role, David is seen sporting a completely bald look - minus eyebrows as well - and a deathly pale complexion.
Speaking of the hardships of taking on the role, the Doctor Who star admitted he found the process tough after spending time with Alexander's wife Marina.
He said during an appearance on the Royal Shakespeare Company's Interval Drinks podcast: "Litvinenko stayed with me because of meeting Marina and being so aware that this is the life she is still living.
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“We are recreating something that happened relatively recently, that was devastating to her and to her life and has entirely transformed what her life since has become.
"I felt the responsibility of that, of getting that right. Just the horrors that she lived through and that that story signifies, our world is still living through.”
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Litvinenko launches December 15 on ITVX.
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