Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat has been doing the interview rounds in the past few days, speaking to Empire Magazine and SFX.
In a new interview for Empire, Capaldi stresses the new Doctor will be more alien than we’ve seen in recent years and his desire to move away from cheap gimmicks:
“It can become a kind of franchise where it’s not a real character at all but just an amalgam of elements that people think are Doctor Who: a scarf, a bow tie… I wanted to be the actual Doctor Who. He’s more alien than he’s been for a while, he doesn’t quite understand human beings or really care very much about their approval.”
Jenna Coleman agreed:
“With Matt’s Doctor [Clara] felt quite safe, really, she knew she’d be caught if she was in danger, but this guy is a lot less human-friendly and a lot less patient. He’s more removed and inaccessible. You can’t quite access him in the same way.”
“Doctor Who was a part of being a kid in the ’60s with The Beatles and Sunday Night At The London Palladium and smog and bronchitis and all that stuff. I think it’s part of my DNA.”
Steven Moffat meanwhile spoke on Peter’s striking new costume in an interview with SFX:
“He wanted to be quite stark, stark and skinny. A stick-insect sort of thing. Clara actually calls him a grey-haired stick-insect at one point. We had some hilarious pictures of Peter just dressing up. It was all coming from him because he’s really into his clothes. I didn’t feel qualified to go and chat too much about it. Certainly the costume didn’t go anywhere until I shut up. The thing I’ve learned about showrunning is you need to know the bits you’re bad at! I’ve got certain things that I’ll say – I don’t want anything in that costume that I have to write into the script. I don’t want people saying ‘But why are you dressed as a circus clown?’ I want him to walk into a pub, a restaurant, a space conference, an army base and nobody stares at him.”
Moffat also revealed that we see Capaldi change more often in this series than the standard uniform of previous years:
“There was an issue simply because it’s quite dark as a costume and it’s a show that largely takes place in a tunnel. I kept saying ‘We are going to be able to see him, aren’t we?’ I suppose the red lining helps, when the flaps are open. I think there’s always something a little bit formal about the Doctor. Oddly enough in this series, for whatever reason, he seems to be wearing different outfits far more often than the Doctor normally does. He’s got his basic outfit but he’s in a spacesuit in one of them, and he’s a caretaker in another one and then he’s all dressed up in a later episode. He does vary it a bit. And he mixes up the basic costume, hugely. We’ve tended to see the white shirt version in public but actually the one I like best is when he wears the jumper under his coat. I think he looks like a submarine commander, like an old sailor or something. It makes him all rugged and handsome!”
Entertainment Weekly also get interviews with Capaldi, Coleman and Moffat as senior writer Clark Collis travels to the UK to meet with the lead stars and producer and to find out what fans can expect from Series 8, Capaldi reiterating the alienness of the Time Lord:
“He’s more alien than we’ve seen him for a while, he is less patient with the foibles of human beings.”
Questions such as urning as questions as “Will Capaldi’s previous appearances in the Who universe be referenced this season?” and “What will happen in the two-part finale?” are answered in this weeks edition which also features a 15 page special on Comic-Con 2014.
The full interviews with Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat can be read in the September 2014 issue of Empire from Thursday July 31, the current issue of SFX with 5 special Doctor Who themed covers which is out now and the forthcoming issue Entertainment Weekly, on sale Friday in the United States.
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