The Valiant Quest Doctor Who Confidential

Older, and older, and older.

I saw a picture of what he's gonna look like so I had that in my head.

I haven't seen what they're gonna make that little homunculus Doctor look like.

I don't know.

We take the Doctor to that much of a low so when he returns,

it's light shining and supernatural power blazing out of him, so his return is all the more glorious.

I just felt a bit of a goon, to be honest. Flailing around for...

I think it had to be three minutes because they removed so many frames

to get the amount of time so that they could get this effect.

There was a lot of flinging my arms around for a long time.

OK, cut, thank you.

I'm very happy with what we've got.

With the sound, and we put on all the screaming and so forth

and the effect of the ageing, it works out beautifully.

Older, and older, and older...

Received and understood, Miss Jones.

Let's have that back again.

In the script, it said the Doctor is aged by 900 years,

and then we have a shot of a suit on the ground.

It says that the 900-year-old Doctor pops up his head through the suit,

and it is a little wizened creature on a thin little neck.

To do that, I had just a green ball the size of his head on a stick, which poked up through the clothes.

That will be replaced by the CG doctor.

Lip synching is very difficult to do and we almost always avoid it

because it's time consuming, difficult and expensive.

However, the mill were determined to have a go.

Why come all this way just to destroy?

We covered David in beads around all the muscle areas of his face,

which we then used for tracking information.

They filmed me speaking the lines but absolutely straight down

the lens, and then they will use that to animate the speech.

But you're changing history.

Not just Earth, the entire universe.

I'm a Time Lord.

I have that right.

But even then,

why come all this way just to destroy?

We come backwards in time, all to build a brand new empire...

'I was just talking to nothing in a cage!'

I was talking to an eye-line.

Can't you hear it?

Listen, it's there now, right now!

He doesn't want the Doctor dead. A dead Doctor is quite useless.

He wants the Doctor to suffer, until he ends up like a parrot in a cage.

It's the absolute humiliation before the huge return.

We take the Doctor to that much of a low,

so that when he returns, it's light shining and supernatural power,

blazing out of him, so it's all the more glorious.

I told them that if everyone thinks of one word at one specific time...

Nothing will happen. Is that your weapon?

Prayer!

-Doctor.

-Doctor.

-Doctor.

-Doctor.

-Doctor.

He goes from little wee 900-year-old Doctor to the old Doctor we've seen.

Stop it. No, no, no, no, no, you don't.

The one thing you can't do

is stop them thinking.

Tell me the human race is degenerate now!

I knew in the script the Doctor levitated, but nobody had told me we were going to do it for real.

I assumed it was computer generated until that morning

and there's this wire harness and someone comes in

with one of those blooming things that they strap you into that make your back hurt for the next week.

So, yeah, a bit of wire work, hanging in the air, being pulled across.

It was not the most comfortable morning I've ever had!

No!

Nooo!

I order you to stop!

-ALL:

-Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!

The one thing you can't do

is stop them thinking.

It's a big deal, that moment, for the Doctor.

He had to spend a year tuning himself into this psychic network,

putting this plan together, relying on Martha to go round the world

and save it from itself and from the Master.

Open up this way a bit.

That's the opposite to how we did it in the other one.

It's been a huge undertaking and he does it, and he does beat him

and he does literally save the world.

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