Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman have spoken in two new press interviews as the final days of promotion for Deep Breath get underway.
Speaking with the Radio Times, cover-star Peter Capaldi revealed that time and money issues caused an intense experience on the show:
“Doctor Who is a very intense working experience because, like most things at the BBC, there’s not quite enough money and money is time and there’s really not quite enough time to do it, so you are always on the hoof, pedalling as fast as you can.”
Capaldi’s comments come after Steven Moffat’s claim last year that The Day of the Doctor wasn’t given enough of a budget to cover the length of the episode. Capaldi also revealed how he was warned by David Tennant and Matt Smith about BBC politics and how his life would change by accepting the role:
“Sometimes you’re in the middle of a big production that has a lot of BBC politics and administration at work and it’s a big commercial vehicle. But you’re an actor and sometimes have to compare notes to see how the others might have felt about the things I am going through or am being asked to do. It’s good to be able to chat to people who have been in the same situation. David and Matt made clear to me that there are things that will change, that you have to be prepared for, like your visibility. I was happy walking down the street doing what I want to do without having paparazzi there. We agreed there’d be pluses and minuses but so much of it was unknown.”
The full interview can be read in today’s edition of the Radio Times from all good newsagents.
Jenna Coleman meanwhile has spoken to The Independent (which interestingly refers to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss as “showrunners”) on the differences between Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi:
“I always thought Matt was so young looking but had this older, wiser quality about him, whereas Peter is almost the opposite, somehow he has this energy that is younger. Visually, obviously, it is very different… He looks completely different and acts completely differently. We’re discovering that it’s much more of a turbulent relationship; he brings out the control freak in Clara because she can’t quite pin him down. It’s always an interesting dynamic with the Doctor, anyway; one moment he’s your friend, and in another moment he’s this weird alien, and in another moment he’s being this annoying kind of toddler and you’re the adult, and in the next moment he’s playing the wise old grandfather.”
She also revealed how she got the part and the unusual auditioning process she went through:
“The auditioning process was really unusual. Steven and the other producers and the director all left the room and left me and Matt for about 50 minutes to chat through the scenes and play off each other. It was very relaxed. I had no idea what they wanted at all, I was just playing around with accents and going from Mary Poppins to this London girl to this person from a different planet, while Matt kept throwing different curve balls at me.”
The Clara actress also revealed she’d never seen the show prior to her casting and watched The Eleventh Hour prior to her audition, as well as the many references that get dropped into scripts:
“I was about 18 when it came back with Billie and Chris. It was something that I was very aware of because it was kind of everywhere, but it simply wasn’t on during my childhood… There’s so much mythology and some important stuff you really do need to know. For instance, there was something in the episode we were doing yesterday that we didn’t understand so Peter Googled it and it went back to 40 years ago and one of Jon Pertwee’s episodes.”
And, maybe with recent reports in mind, Jenna revealed she isn’t thinking about the future too much:
“At the moment I’m really happy. It’s one of those jobs that will only happen once – the whole adventure that it brings. The key is not to worry about the future, and enjoy it.”
The full interview can be read Here.
Doctor Who returns this Saturday on BBC One, BBC America, ABC and in cinemas with Deep Breath at 7:50pm UK time.
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