Trust me. I'm the Doctor.
Geronimo! The Doctor will see you now!
Now I've done it.
No, no, no, no, no!
# Anybody who thinks I can't do it any more
# Better stepright back and take that... #
He is, isn't it? He's the Doctor!
# Take that... #
Who da man?
I'm never saying that again. Fine!
# Anybody who thinks I can'tdo it any more
# Betterstep right back and take that
# I've got the formula I've got the formula
# Take that!
# I'll reign on all of yer, I'll reign on all of yer... #
Talk to me!
All the experts involved, panicking at once. Do you know what they need?
Me.
# Take that, that... #
Hello. Am I late? Everything is going to be fine.
Run.
# Anybody who thinks I can't do it any more
# Better step right back and take that
# That, that, that... #
Hello. I'm the Doctor.
It's September 2009 and at a secret location in South Wales,
the new Doctor begins his journey.
Right, we're going to... Hello, everyone.
Shh...Everyone rush to their chairs, we're about to start.
How scrutinised out of our television lives, ever, this one.
Just so you feel relaxed.
Don't feel relaxed, it's going to be brilliant, but my god, let's kill them with this one.
We'll go round the table and say our names just because I never tire of saying I'm Steven Moffat
and I'm the executive producer and head writer of Doctor Who.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I'm Matt, I play the Doctor.
I'm Karen, I'm playing Amy.
I'm Caitlin, I'm playing Amelia.
Amelia's garden.
Panning round a fairly big garden, a bit neglected, overgrown, creepy.
There's an old battered garden shed, then Amelia's house and like the garden it's old and a bit run down.
Ordinary, but a bit spooky.
"Dear Santa, thank you for bringing the fish, dolls and pencils..."
It's Easter now so I hope I didn't wake you.
But, honest, it is an emergency.
Amelia is the first human being that he sees in his new regenerated form which I think
is quite significant cos to him it's a strange, alien life form.
He meets her and she's in her garden in her nightie with a torch.
And a hand gripping on the edge of a base and another hand and then a face, the Doctor.
His hair is soaking wet, his eyes are wild and dancing. He's looking right at Amelia.
Can I have an apple?
"All I can think about, apples...
"I love apples, maybe I'm having a craving.
"That's new. I've never had cravings before."
The new Doctor is essentially the same man he has been
for all the previous 906 years of his life.
There is no such thing as the 11th Doctor.
There's one Doctor with 11 faces.
He is the same man.
Argh!
Are you all right, mister? I'm fine. It's OK.
This is all perfectly nor...
Who are you?
I don't know yet. I'm still cooking.
Now when you put on a different set of clothes or shoes, you feel very different.
But is the continuing story of the same man with a different face.
I think it's going to look better, apparently, if I give it a good project that way.
Um... I mean I'll... I won't....
What I'll do is probably do a lean forward as well.
Yeah.
Are we going to get that?
It's like being born again.
It's like everything you see is a new colour, taste, new smell.
Apples, yoghurts, all the rest of it, what is that, you know?
And, action.
If you're a doctor, why does your box say "police"?
Can I go from the top? Keep purchase on that bad boy.
Another apple, keep running, don't break it up, please.
B camera.
And, action.
If you're a doctor, why does your box say "police"?
Keep running. Another apple, please.
There's a lack of kind of cynicism that happens when we're adults
and it's like children see things and accept them and try them and spit them out.
That's disgusting. What is that? An apple.
Apples are rubbish, I hate apples. You said you loved them.
No, no, I'll have yoghurt. Yoghurt'smy favourite.
I hate yoghurt. It's just stuff with bits in.
You said it was your favourite. New mouth, new rules.
It's like eating after cleaning yourteeth everything tastes WR-O-O-O-NG!!
It's all kind of written in that he's trying to get to know his body and everything but, hopefully,
kind of physically it's all sporadic and weird and he's hitting himself and not really knowing how to react
to this new body but also his personality is regenerating as well.
What's wrong with you?Wrong with me?
Why can'tyou give me any decent food? You're Scottish, fry something.
OK, cut there.
What made Matt stand out, surprisingly in a way, because
he'd never seen the show was that he was tonally perfect from the off.
He got what sort of part it is.
He got the lightness, the fun, the nuttiness of it. Just instantly.
It was just so obvious. It was such an obvious choice.
I'd found out I'd got the role. I'd come out of an audition
and I was in Aldgate, I think, and it was for a pilot sitcom and
my agent rang me and said, "I think we better have a chat." I said,
"OK. Have I not got it?" He said, "No."
I said,
"Right, well, have I got it?"
He said, "I think we better meet for a cup of tea." I said, "Michael, have I got it?" He said, "Yes."
I seem to remember being very disbelieving. "No, no"
pacing up and down this cobbled street in Aldgate.
I'd like to go back, actually.
And I was just...
I mean, you know, ecstatic.
I mean, I had to tell my Mum and Dad and my sister, so I told them.
They couldn't quite believe it. My Mum and Dad didn't sleep for at least a day.
This is the family, this is granddad, this is Mum, this is Dad.
This is Confidential.
Mother's wearing her semi Patrick Charleston coat.
Oh, Mother, right anyway.
It was quite funny, because it was early in the morning
and I was just eating a bowl of cornflakes.
The phone went and I saw that it was Matt.
He just said, "Dad, just call me the Doctor."
I said, "Why?"
"Are you not well?" And then he said, "No, call me the Doctor."
I suddenly realised and then we both then... I started jumping around, I shouted Lynne.
I asked her to come downstairs. It was surreal, really.
Then, subsequent to that, we couldn't tell a soul and that was
the most difficult bit for Lynne and I because we couldn't tell
anybody and there were a couple of nights
where we just sat up at night and talked about it because we couldn't talk about it to anybody else.
It's a kind of mad thing to happen to you.
The show has such momentum and such brilliance and grace
and all thegood things that it has that it
does cover a great deal of interest from the media.
You adapt, I guess, as best you can.
It was odd. I think it's odd for your family and stuff because it
becomes part of their life as well.
I was standing at a bar in a local pub one evening and
a chap came up to me and he said, "You're Doctor Who's granddad?"
I said, "Well, yes." He says, "My grandson wants your autograph." I said, "My autograph?"
He says, "Yes, anything to do with Doctor Who, he wants the autograph."
So I had to sign it, "To Harry, from Doctor Who's granddad"
and he was dead happy.
Famous.Yeah, I'm famous in the village through Matt now.
I sort of carried it around with me like a little piece of gold in my pocket or whatever it was.
I remember walkingdown the road.
I walked to Camden and listened to Frank Sinatra and felt pretty much on top of the world.
That was a good moment, yeah. I walked past a window and looked in a thing
and had a very significant moment with Frank Sinatra in my ears going, "Yes, I'm the Doctor."
# I've got you
# Under my skin
# I've got you
# Deep in the heart of me
# So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me
# I've got you
# Under my skin. #
Every day I think, "How lucky we are"
because what he is bringing to the role is absolute dedication
and wit and charm, brilliant acting.
I think Matt's amazing.
You know, I think he's
a brilliant, brilliant actor.
It's such a million to one chance,
really to have him as DoctorWho. Yeah, we're really proud.
# Under my skin... #
He's just a brilliant, brilliant actor.
We're incredibly lucky.
I mean, I've never experienced anything like that where you take over the reins of something
which is hugely successful. David did such a wonderful job, as did Chris.
I think they were both brilliant Doctors.
Yeah, there's a degree of responsibility but, I think, you can only be ever true to your own
identity as an actor, do you know what I mean? And try and make it work for you in your way.
You sort of go, "Well, thanks for passing the baton on, guys,
"here we go, you know, let's make it mine."
And this time around, being the new Doctor means getting your hands on a brand new TARDIS.
OK, what have you got for me this time?
Look at you.
It's still bigger on the inside but designer Ed Thomas
has a few surprises in store for the new Doctor.
This is where we've
got to as it stands.
One of the aspects of a brand new era of Doctor Who, you've got to go for it.
You've got to chance everything and he's changed everything.
Not just one thing, everything.
So, much as I love that old set, I really did love it, I thought no, it's time for a new set.
It's time to surprise people again.
The fact is we've got more space now than when the original TARDIS set was built.
I thought, let's make it even bigger on the inside.
The first thing I saw was the scale. It's much bigger than the old TARDIS.
The depth of it! I love the levels.
And then we're toying with the idea of putting a liquid floor,
a black liquid floor or a black Perspex floor so we get reflections.
What we've never been able to achieve on this TARDIS is we've never been able to go underneath.
I love the idea of going underneath.
I'd like to think the TARDIS goes on forever in lots of scary, strange ways.
So, that was the idea.
An even bigger on the inside TARDIS and let's just go mad with it.
The biggest change of this TARDIS is we've really pimped it up.
Hello, Confidential. I'm here with Ed Thomas, the man who designs the TARDIS.
We're going to have a look round and he's going to show me how to fly it and what bit's what.
So! Enter!
This is the new TARDIS.
This is where I do my correspondence.Right. We've got all sorts of sections.
There are diagnostic areas, there are flying areas, each one has a different purpose.
Then we've got the main time rotor in the middle, which is blown glass.
We searched high and low to find somebody that could blow us the glass to the scale they did and
these chaps in Bristol pulled it off for us.
The biggest thing we've changed is the scale.Yeah, I know.
It's almost twice as big. It's enormous.
It varies off in all directions.
You probably can't see, but look, am I right in saying if you walk up there you end up...
over there? You do. It's very clever. It's all done with mirrors.
Yeah. I need TARDIS time. And there's a Morse code thing, look.
Yeah.There's all these kind of foot pedals as well, which are just incredible.
There's so much detail.
Oh! A new one.
Lovely.
Look, I've prepared a manual for you here.
So you've got the helm, navigation, diagnostic, communications, fabrication, mechanical...
This will tell you where everything you need is.
What do these do?
What does it say? Quantum form foam manipulators.Absolutely!
It's a quantum foam manipulator. How could I not know that?
At some point, you'll need to revise this and learn this.Absolutely!
This is your version of the iPod. Ha! My tune list.
You put your music in there and on your go.
All these details are amazing, aren't they?
If you look under it, all the lights and wires.
It feels like it does have life. Yes.That's what's amazing about it.
That's where we've achieved something special on this one.
We have an awful lot of moving parts in here.
As you say, it really is full of life and this is the Gallifreyan text.
The carvings on here are all the Gallifreyan text
which, of course, is the Doctor's language.
Forward in time, back in time.
Ah, of course. It's all there for you.
I'm hitting a lot of double...
Yes, which is why you're in the trouble you're in.
THEY LAUGH
Do you want to have a stroll around some of the staircases and see underneath, maybe?
Absolutely, let's do that.
And that is actually lit by this liquid?Yeah.
Can I touch it?You can.
And it's not just water?
It's water with a bit of food colouring in it to make it look like oil.
What's this then?
That's a protective sheath over the heart of the TARDIS.
Yeah...So underneath there is what literally drives it.
It kind of feels like the most brilliant den in the world.Yeah.
I hope you like it.
I hope you have many hundreds of years time travelling in it.
It is pretty much the most brilliant thing to come into every day.
It's like a giant playground.
It is. Truly, it's thrilling.
I feel very privileged to have such a TARDIS.
Just like the Doctor, the TARDIS undergoes a regeneration
but before the big screen debut, the old one has one last bumpy ride.
Maybe a bit more coming out of the base areas.
The TARDIS has just come hurtling through space.
It's gone careering through this shed and buried itself
straight into the ground.
So we're dressing all debris around it, give it a bit more impact.
Stuff's been blown out of the shed and, yeah, just to give it a bit more of a...
like it's actually properly hit the ground and dress it nicely for that shot.
So there's no way at all this could be just a little bit more like that?
The only way we can do that,Trace, is if we wedge the back end up.
We can do that. We can put it on a jaunty angle.
Fancy that?Yeah.
Let's do that. Yeah.
So it looks like it's made an impact.
We'll sort that out for you now. Thanks, love.
When we first looked at it,
it looked a bit too level, so I've been out there with Kieron,
messing about with the plant pots and putting a bit of turf up, which I love and it looks brilliant.
We had a bit of a problem with the smoke, directing the smoke.
Yeah, it's all looking good.
We're all beavering ahead and we're on schedule, thank god.
Then you'll be here, right.Yeah. In which case, I'll come to...
We've got a fantastic little lady, Caitlin, who plays the young Amelia,
who is a superstar.
She's just a diamond. You couldn't ask for better. She's lovely. She takes direction.
She listens and she's just like she's been doing it for years.
OK, and action!
I've got to get back in there.
The engine are phasing, it's going to burn!
But... But...
It's just a box. How can a box have engines?
It's not a box. It's a time machine.
What?
Caitlin's a little star.
She's lovely.
Lovely kid. I mean, I'm really fond of her, yeah.
And brilliant and very...
You know, and she's had no experience of acting whatsoever,
which I think is a really good thing, you know.
There's no jazz hands going on, or anything.
If Caitlin moves a tiny bit to her left.
You learn quick, don't you?
Caitlin, and a touch to your left, darling.
Are you really clever at school?
No.No.
Well, you're really clever in life.
You think so? Which is better, that's cooler.
I think she's wonderful.
She's great, right. Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
Geronimo!
SPLASHING
And the great, grinding engines heave into life and the TARDIS fades from view.
Amelia's staring and then she's racing back into the house.
She comes tearing into her bedroom and grabs a tiny suitcase from under her bed
and starts throwing stuff into it, clothes, dolly, a toothbrush.
Open the suitcase, you run to me and get...?
Clothes.
Then you put them in and you grab your...?
Teddy.Toothbrush.
Toothbrush. Then, put that in and you come and get...?
Teddy.Put him in and you run out and get...?
Red shawl. Clothes, toothbrush, Teddy, shawl.
Clothes, toothbrush, Teddy, shawl.
I bet you get it wrong.
THEY LAUGH
Stand by.
The slams the case shut and goes racing out into the garden, clutching her suitcase,
wearing a coat and hat over her night clothes.
She races over to where the TARDIS lay, sets down her case, sits on it and waits.
I met my cousin for the first time at the read through of episode one.
I'm related to Karen Gillan. She's my cousin.
She grew up in Ireland and I left Inverness quite young.
So, we just never met.
We'd always just missed each other and the first time I met her was at the read through.
I think it's quite believable that we're the same person because, obviously,
there's family resemblance and there's just a connection there because we are of the same blood.
Action!
You're Amelia.You're late.
Amelia, you're the little girl. I'm Amelia and you're late.
Imagine if your imaginary friend turned up, promised you all the time in space and said he'd be back
in five minutes and you spend the rest of your life wondering
if that was real or if that's ever going to turn up.
So you end up with an Amy who's a little distrustful of people,
a little bit more cynical and, certainly when the Doctor turns up, he's going to get a much harder time
because she's the girl who waited and he's the man that didn't show up.
What happened?12 years. You hit me with a cricket bat.
12 years.Acricket bat.
12 years and four psychiatrists. Four?
Amy has turned into this very feisty, rather attractive, young lady.
Amy is a sassy lady.
She's really got a mind of her own.
She doesn't tend to take the Doctor's word as gospel. She just has her own opinions on things and
doesn't listen to everything he says and she questions him and challenges him all the time.
That's what's lovely about this relationship. It's quite tempestuous
because Amy's very strong willed and is not afraid to give the Doctor a clap across the face if he needs it.
She's got this inner confidence in her and she can really handle herself in situations.
She's incredibly witty. She's fun.
Her and the Doctor have a great time together.
Oi! You, sit still.
Come on!What? No, what are you doing?
Amy? Why did you say six months? Why did you say five minutes?
Are you not going to turn your back?
Nope.
That is not possible.
That was two years ago.What?
You're a policewoman?
I'm a kiss-o-gram!
You're Amelia.You're late.
Amelia Pond, you're the little girl. I'm Amelia and you're late.
Are you from another planet?
Come with me.Where?
Wherever you like.
Why me?Why not?
THEY LAUGH
On location, the crew have the mighty task of turning
the tiny Welsh village of Llandaff into the sleepy English village of Leadworth, the home of Amy Pond.
We've done a lot of London in Doctor Who.
The truth is it became almost one of the cliches of the series because we did it so often.
You saw it so much. You got bored of it.
So we thought what other iconic English thing can you do?
A beautiful little village - why not?
And, action!
What is this place? Where am I?
Leadworth.Where's the rest of it? This is it.
Is there an airport?No.
Nuclear power station?No.
Even a little one?No.Near a city? Gloucester, half an hour by car.
We don't have half an hour. Do we have a car?
No.Oh, well, that's good. Fantastic, that is.
20 minutes to save the world and I've got a Post Office. And it's shut. What is that?
It's a duck pond.
Why aren't there any ducks?I don't know. There's never any ducks.
Then how do you know it's a duck pond?
As you can see it's quite a big village. We've had to dress the whole lot.
Everything starting from the flowers, signage, street labels, street signs...
Post Office headlines and details there. You come right the way through to the book store.
Various books outside there relevant to Leadworth.
All the postcards on the stands. All perfect for Leadworth.
Come through to the pub, we checked all the windows, all the leadwork on the windows.
Signage, benches, all of that stuff to do with them.
So, yeah, that's part of what's gone on so far.
All the residents know
that we're filming here, so there's letter drops.
They're told how long we're going to be here, why we're here.
You know, what we're doing. It's all very well organised and 99% of the time it all goes really well.
Are you ready? Catch. Oh!
Oh!
I'd be trying to get it out, I'll try and get the keys.
Or just at least one, or not?
Or is it more powerful, do you think, just to keep it...
I think it is. Struggle a bit and know that...
Actually, even all that, "You know who I am..."
I can be a bit mad at the top.
"Amy, what's wrong with you?" Then she's like, "Who are you?" "But you know who I am."
Yeah.Look at the sky, it's the end of the world in 20 minutes.
Dum, dum, dum... OK, stand by to shoot, please.
Camera set...
And, action!
20 minutes, I can do it.
The planet burns, run to your loved ones and say goodbye or stay and help me.
I'm sorry.
No!Amy... No, no!
What are you doing?
In that scene, as scripted, there's a lot of stuff that happens that makes it quite tricky to stage
and the car has to arrive at a certain point, and a tie has to get trapped into the door.
Amy, no! No, what are you doing?
No.
Still running. Reset!
But really, the most significant story beat there is the fact that
they stop and have this moment together.
Catch! I'm the Doctor.
I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real and if you don't let me go right now,
everything you've ever known is over.
I don't believe you.20 minutes. Just believe me for 20 minutes. Look at it.
It's a kind of nod back to the moment they had together when she was a kid.
Look at it. Fresh as the day you gave it to me and you know it's the same one.
I don't think anyone will really notice but we cranked the camera up slightly
so we've made it slightly slow motion when they have this little moment together.
So it just slightly goes a bit magical.
Amy...
believe for 20 minutes.
I think the moment with the apple is the moment where
she actually has to make the choice whether she goes with it or not.
I mean, she's spent all those years hardening her heart against the idea of an imaginary friend.
And I can imagine... I bet she gives Rory hell. We know she does, because she's sceptical.
She doesn't... She's learned to be tough on things like that.
I bet she was mean about Santa Claus.
I bet she was mean about the Tooth Fairy.
What you don't expect when you're that kind of cynic,
when you've grown up with that carapace formed round you, you don't expect your imaginary friend
to turn up and be exactly what he claimed to be all those years ago.
Even with that, can you remember, you've had 12 years of growing up to be a slightly different person
than you were going to be because this person let you down and they're standing there
asking you, outrageously asking you, to trust them, even though everything they're saying is completely bonkers.
That's the moment where she has to decide that she's not grown up in a way.
That she can still be a child.
She's still allowed to believe in her childhood hero.
What do we do?Stop that nurse.
The sun's going down and you're photographing a man and a dog.
Why?Amy...Hi.
Oh, this is Rory, he's a friend. Boyfriend.Kind of, well...
I think the relationship between Amy and Rory is quite complicated.
He's completely in love with her.
And, she is very, er...
She likes running off and
going on adventures and he's determined to...
I think he's a romantic at heart and he's determined to get her but has no idea how to do it
and gets very nervous when she's around.
I think she really does love him but I think there are a lot of things
that she needs to do in her life before she can admit how much she loves him.
Rory is the guy who's grown up not being the doctor
from a very, very young age.
She's waited for this man, he's never turned up.
He's the man who's tried to train to be a doctor but ended up being a nurse.
He's the one who's not quite making it.
He looks a tiny little bit like him but isn't the same.
So he's grown up in the shadow of Amy's imaginary friend and
much to his horror, Amy's imaginary friend turns out to be real.
Oh, my god. It's him. Just answer his question, please.
It's him, though. The doctor, the raggedy doctor?Yeah, he came back.
He was a story, he was a game!
Amy's always talked about this raggedy doctor that she's met and obviously she's had a few problems
dealing with who he is and she's obviously talked about him a lot to Rory and
he's become this fantasy figure that she thinks is amazing and Rory used to have to dress up as him
because they've known each other for years and years.
He's been in love with her for years and years.
Rory's always wanted to be that doctor to her
because he's this mythical character and then when the Doctor arrives he realises that
this guy is real.Man and dog, why?
Tell me now.Sorry, because...
he can't be there because he's in hospital.
BOTH: In a hospital, in a coma.
Yeah.
It's really funny because we know each other as mates more than colleagues,
so it's just like going to work with your mate.
Multi-form, you see.
Disguises himself as anything.
INAUDIBLE
The quaint old village green is also home to a very new way
of seeing the world through the eyes of the Doctor.
It's a brilliant little sequence.
We go into the Doctor's head and his eye and
we see all the things that he's taking in
and the camera sort of jolts round on this journey.
It takes all these photographs of people.
In the Doctor's brain, he's going,
"I've seen this, I've seen this."
The Doctor notices everything.
He notices that when everyone else is using their camera phones
to take pictures of the sun, he notices one man on the village green
who has his back to it
because he's taking a picture of something completely different on his camera phone.
That's Rory.
That's what the Doctor's trying to remember.
So even while the crisis is landing all around him
and while his head is still cooking, he can notice one person not doing what he'd expect them to do.
No, hang on, shut up, wait! I missed it.
I saw it and I missed it. What did I see? I saw...
What did I see?So there's a camera moving into his eye.I saw.
Then we go into this sequence
where he's remembering what's just happened.
OK, all yours.
We take the stills very close to each other in physical space, if you like.
For instance, if I'm taking...
If I'm moving from here to you, I'd take 20 stills moving towards you.
We then take those still images, we take them into an editing programme.
We string them all back to back and then when we play them out, it becomes live action, basically.
It looks like live action. Kind of like a time slice which is that matrix effect
when, you know, you move around in a moment in time.
The effect you can liken it to most is those flip books that you have as kids.
You flip through them and there's lots and lots of drawings of a stick man and he looks like he's juggling
or jumping up and down, or skipping or whatever.
Your arm's cramping up, yeah? It's just my arse, actually.
It's just like the most elaborate game of musical statues.
I think it looks amazing. The whole time I was standing there, I was thinking,
"This is going to look brilliant."
My legs went numb. My bum went numb.
I couldn't really feel anything. But it was worth it in the end.
You get the camera to go under a bench and spin round.
You take a single frame, and then you take a step.
You take another single frame, you take a step.
There is a lovely moment that they did where you see the dog man, and they had done a contra zoom on that.
Which is really effective.
What's really lovely about that technique is that it isn't quite perfect,
because it is a human trying to get themselves in the same position again and again and again.
So you end up with this slight...
You end up with more of a kind of...
For want of a better word, more of an organic feel, and that is what I wanted.
Because I wanted it to be in his head.
One thing's for sure.
When you are the new Doctor, it is only a matter of time
before the special-effects team get their hands on you.
I have got cold hands.Aaaaaaah!
This is cruel.
Oh, Danny, you spoil me, mate.
I have got a warm heart, though.
Oh, yeah! I don't believe you!
It is so cold. Confidential, I am cold today.
Look, because it is holes in the raggedy doc's costume.
Gloves.
They have a little hot pouch inside.
Sorry, mate, I needed to leave that off for a minute.Absolutely. So, what we are about to do is,
the sonic screwdriver is about to explode in my hand as I have a bit of a face-off
with Prisoner Zero.
And it's like a little firework, essentially, isn't it?
Basically, yeah. The sonic screwdriver,
inside that will be an explosive device.
So, I will talk it through with you, but when you are holding it,
just make sure you keep your fingers down like that.
Not go right up? No. I'll bring it over.
Will it blow my thumb off? It'll be fine.
He says that. What you want to do, say yes or no?
That is the producer.
Right, get warm. All right, mate. Cheers.
Matt's hand is about to explode.
This is going to be interesting. I'm scared, because I always get scared when we do special effects.
So I just get to do lots of reacting.
Like that, just like that.That is very good.Yeah, I thought so.
The only thing is, I am quite jumpy, so if it is a surprise, you will get a real jump out of me.
It's a cold day today, but we are bearing up.
We are troopers.
We are imagining we're in the Caribbean.
Yes. We're about to go to a party, actually. With some pina coladas.
It's going to be kicking. Effects go off, please!
OK, here we go.
And background action! And, action.
And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver.
# Sonic boom, boy
# Sonic boom, boom, boom! #
Fire-engine, the ladder!
Going up and down, up and down.
The fire engine crew is off down the road.
THEY BARK
I think someone's going to notice, don't you?
The telephone box explodes.
No, no, no!
And cut there. Cut there.
He is making a lot of mistakes, and he's getting things wrong.
He is finding out that actually he is fallible, and
actually that people depend on him a lot and he can't be, and he has got to improve.
And it is really only until about three-quarters of the way through,
when he finally clicks into place,
stop regenerating, and he is the Doctor.
What's in here? I'm saving the world.
I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy.
Time to put on a show.
I think that Matt's look as the Doctor is bang on, I really do.
I think it is perfect.
It is this kind of old, rustic-y, professor-type look.
But a mad professor with a bow tie and everything.
It is pretty eccentric, and it suits the way he plays the Doctor, as well.
And I think he just looks really at home in the costume,
and it really suits the way he looks and moves and everything.
So, my costume.
Bow-tie. I have got a TARDIS blue one, as well.
Braces that are coming off.
I will just reapply them.
And then we have got this lovely tweed jacket. A watch.
It doesn't actually work, but I think the idea
is that the Doctor can just go to Venice or Paris or wherever and just tap it once or twice.
Boots.
I'll pan up.
Um, and my jeans.
Rolled up at the bottom. I think it manages a bit of...
Oh, God, do I say this? A bit of Indiana Jones, a bit of a professor, a bit of explorer...
I think it has to feel like an extension of your personality.
And this does, for me.
So this was a good idea? You were leaving?Leaving is good.
Staying away is better.
'There are a couple of moments in there where we see him
'firing on all cylinders as the Doctor.'
There is the moment when he is on the rooftop and he has just picked his costume.
Well?
Come on, then!
The Doctor will see you now.
I think the moment when he clicks into place is finally putting his clothes on,
getting the bow-tie on and being in his outfit.
What do you think?
That's when he's arrived. That's when he's back on form.
That's when he's properly there.
Hello.
I'm the Doctor.
Geronimo!
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