Colm McCarthey Speaks on The Bells of St. John and Returning to Doctor Who
Director Colm McCarthey has spoken on filming The Bells of St. John in a new interview with Den of Geek.
Speaking to Louisa Mellor, McCarthey speaks on filming the motorbike scene:
“That was fun. That was a fun day filming. We shot in London for three days and the best thing was being sat on the back of the low-loader on the motorbike, and we had these paparazzi chasing us around town on bikes, so it was fun watching all the paps sweating while we were sitting there. Matt is such a lovely guy and a really great actor, and it was a lot of fun. I love doing action, I’ve been lucky enough to get to kill Adam in Spooks – Rupert Penry Jones’ character – by blowing him up with a fireball in the East End. I like a bit of all that, it’s good fun.”
Colm also lavishes praise on Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, claiming he’d love to return to Doctor Who in the future:
“As a director, you want to work with great writers. There’s a funny thing that in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I’m quite comfortable with that as a director. I don’t mind that. But I do understand that your work can only be as good as the writers you work with, and Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are amazing writers. They’re writing in a way that other people in this country aren’t. For me, my mythology growing up was Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Star Wars and E.T. and Ghostbusters, that’s what I grew up on, and there aren’t many people who can write that kind of scale of story, stories that are that big. Steven Knight [of Peaky Blinders] and Steven Moffat are very, very different writers. Very different. The thing they have in common though is that they can write stories that are big in scale, so I wouldn’t rule out doing any of those things again. They’re the people who are writing like that in this country and I’m lucky to have got to work with them. I’d love to do more.”
For the full interview, where Colm speaks on Peaky Blinders, Sherlock and more Doctor Who, check out the full interview over at Den of Geek
Frankie Boyle Gives his Thoughts on Doctor Who Being Scottish Now
Comedian Frankie Boyle meanwhile has given his thoughts on Doctor Who‘s Scottishness as part of a one-off iPlayer show analysing the recent Scottish independence referendum. Proclaiming the Beeb is capable of reflecting the true Scotland, Frankie says (via The Guardian - warning, strong language) in typical style:
“Doctor Who is Scottish and it’s difficult to think of a more archetypal Scottish character. An old man armed with a screwdriver dragging young women into a phone box. ‘They call me the Doctor. I’m taking you back to the 1970s.’”
Frankie Boyle’s Referendum Autopsy is available now on the BBC iPlayer.
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