Peter Capaldi has given a new interview where he speaks on potentially filming in Australia, bringing by 5th Doctor companion Tegan and the sort of stories he’d like to see if Doctor Who ever headed down under!

Capaldi, giving an interview to TV Tonight, said it “would be great” to film in Australia:

“It would be great, but we have a limited budget. There are so many places here that could look like another world but also it would be great just to have Australian people in it! Janet Fielding who used to play Tegan, a companion for Tom Baker and Peter Davison is Australian and absolutely lovely. I think she should come back, but we should find her here.”

And Peter has some particular ideas about what the Doctor would get up to on such a visit:

“You’d have to do Ayer’s Rock wouldn’t you? One of the fantastic things about Australia is there is a sense of a vibrant, young country combined with this elemental, earth force. There’s something very much about the origins of Planet Earth here. So it would be great for the Doctor to come and get in touch with all of that.”

Peter also debunks the popular theories on his wanting and winning the role in 2013:

“The story that people like to believe is that I spent every waking hour wanting to be Doctor Who and that I woke every morning grief-stricken that I wasn’t, or that my whole career was a crusade to become Doctor Who –which isn’t true. I loved Doctor Who and was a big fan of it, but then I went off into the world, grew up, became an actor, and did all the things that actors do. I was delighted when it came back but I didn’t really expect to be involved with it and I was delighted when I was offered a role in an episode. When they asked me to become the Doctor I was blown away, but I didn’t have an expectation of what it would be like. So there wasn’t anything for it to match up to. My affection for Doctor Who was about the programme, not about being an actor in it.”

Doctor Who has a devoted fanbase, many creative fans expressing themselves online and Peter is certainly aware of the immense effort put in by fandom, saying the fans are “telling us what they want to the show to be”

“I’m forever being sent paintings, drawing, stories that people have made. Often to an extremely high quality. The things people are doing on the internet, and the videos they are making… they are filmmakers in the making. They take clips from the show and put them to music. It’s sort of telling us what they want to the show to be. The title sequence we have was originally a fan-made sequence.”

The Doctor “lives in a universe where anything goes” and holds a special attraction for those outside the mainstream Capaldi says:

“Doctor Who is a character for people who (feel they) don’t fit in the mainstream of society. It’s ironic that it’s getting bigger and bigger, for people who feel ostracized or outside the mainstream. He lives in a universe where anything goes, which is as it should be. He’s wiser and more experienced about life and all of its forms. So I think that’s quite liberating and a useful model to have around.”

For Peter Capaldi’s thoughts on the Doctor Who Festival, Australian fans, fans potentially not liking him as the Doctor and much more, the full interview can be found at TVTonight.com.au

The Husbands of River Song airs this Christmas Day at 5:15pm on BBC One, 9pm EST on BBC America and at 7:30pm on Saturday on ABC in Australia.