Double Trouble Doctor Who Confidential

What are you all, identical twins?

Confidential does a double-take as the cast come face-to-face with themselves.

Are you two twins?

We get to kind of do all the, "Oh, my God" stuff.

But how similar does a look-alike need to be?

Of course I'm better looking but, you know, he does all right.

As the UK is gripped by the coldest winter in decades,

the country grinds to a halt.

It's so cold. I can't tell you how cold it is.

But there's still no stopping the Doctor Who crew.

-I've got a sneaky one.

-You've got one.

You've got one and you're stealing mine, Gillan!

# I don't ever want to be here

# Like punching in a dream

# Breathing life into the nightmare. #

I can't leave her out there.

-Rory!

-I know you understand that.

-Get in here. Get in here.

And watch out, Amy. Rory has his eye on another woman.

Amy's kind of strong, "I don't care" facade

is starting to crack a little bit.

I think if Jennifer had any taste, she would fancy Rory!

-Amy's a lucky girl.

-Yeah...she is.

# Do you count the flakes when it snows?

# Can you feel the heat or only the afterglow?

# Do you count the flakes when it snows? Yeah. #

At Caerphilly Castle,

snow has fallen on the set of Doctor Who.

But despite the freezing temperatures,

the cast and crew are soldiering on.

We've been very lucky. The snow came down quite heavily on Saturday

and we managed to get the crew through the snow.

Fortunately, we've been inside for the last couple of days,

so despite the cold temperatures, we've managed to keep filming.

Today's interesting because we hadn't imagined

shooting these scenes with the castle snowbound,

but actually it looks lovely, so we're going to go with it.

Gloves, I've got a couple of heat packs on my back.

I haven't got any heat packs. I should get some.

-Hand warmers in my socks.

-That's funny. That must be lumpy.

It's lumpy and bumpy, but it's warm.

I don't have any room in my shoes. Hi, guys.

I've got sheep skin.

-I've got them!

-Yes! You've both got them.

It's created a lack of space in my shoes...

Claustrophobic toes. I can't do that.

-..And therefore my feet are colder.

-Really?

-Yes.

-No.

-Taking it away.

-No!

One of the problems we get with weather like this is the worry

that the cast might end up under the weather.

It is a gruelling schedule

and Matt, Karen and Arthur are at the brunt of it.

You've got one. You've got one and you're stealing mine, Gillan!

I've got multiple layers. Ooh.

We try and look after them but they're all young, they're all fit.

They're hopefully coping well.

What Karen does is this,

-she puts it on her silly old nose, her big red conker.

-I know!

-That's because it gets really cold and runny.

-Cos it's massive.

-Don't take it off!

-Take your coats off.

-Come on.

-This is what happens in checks, with Arthur.

-Come on, Arthur. Do it.

-Ahhh!

-It's OK, Arthur.

-It's OK!

-Man up, old bean.

-OK, I'm doing it. Aah!

If we want to live, it's time to go to war.

The main monster of these episodes are the gangers,

and they're a modern take on the kind of Frankenstein idea of creating life.

'I don't think there's any getting away from the fact'

the gangers are scary.

I'm very aware that this goes out on Saturday evenings

and I'm very aware this is a family show,

but Doctor Who was always scary when I was a kid,

and this is certainly going to scare people.

I wanted it to be scary and icky and nasty and cool to watch,

but I didn't want it to be about, "I want to take over the world

"just for the sake of it."

You can really sympathise with them.

They've got this vulnerability to them,

because you can really see their point of view, I guess,

because they're just trying to protect themselves and each other,

and, you know, they think of the humans as the enemy.

Where's the real Jennifer?

I am Jennifer Lucas.

I don't think the gangers are evil, necessarily,

they're just fighting for survival,

and people do extreme things in extreme situations.

If there are villains in this story, the villains are the humans,

who have been maltreating this sort of slave class they have, albeit accidentally, created.

We have the advantage now.

The thing I've wondered about any of these creatures

that perfectly duplicate human beings is,

don't they feel they have rights too?

Don't they take on some of the qualities of the human being they're impersonating so well?

In a lot of Doctor Whos you'd have a situation where somebody

could outguess the monster, but how do you outguess yourself?

It's one of the most challenging things you could fight with.

The doubles that we used for the actors, you don't need them to look the same.

They're going to be completely replaced.

There's two real essentials - they have to be the same height,

because if you're looking at your double

and I'm shooting you from over here, I need your eyeline

to be exactly where it will be when you're looking back at yourself.

So the height's incredibly important.

Also, to get around having to do a lot of special effects,

the back of the head becomes quite important, the hair,

because I can put a camera over someone's shoulder, looking at another person,

and as long as the back of the double's head looks fine,

you've got a clean shot and you don't have to worry about it.

From the back, you're not really sure who it is

and they'll turn around and have a completely different face.

So, it's really funny, actually, to see who they choose to cast as people's doubles.

I had a double once, for something else,

and she just looked nothing like me.

I mean, I am ghostly white, but this girl was really tanned.

They just put a ginger wig on her.

Are you two twins?

Well, I think we're pretty good doubles.

-I think we look pretty similar.

-We do. We've got similar features.

A similar nose.

Yeah. Quite similar accents as well.

Crinkles around the eyes.

Of course, I'm the better-looking, but he does all right.

I think he's slightly more handsome.

Slightly more grey. Result!

And he's got a slightly better physique.

I think there are some similarities.

My hair's now a lot longer than what the wig is.

But it's really good to have them there.

Not just for eyelines and stuff,

but they actually give a lot as well to a scene, so it's great.

-Action.

-Jennifer? Jennifer.

-They hurt...so much.

-Hey, it's OK, it's over now.

Despite an episode of freezing temperatures

and icy conditions, things are definitely hotting up on set.

It's a really interesting twist in this episode,

-for the relationship between Rory and Amy.

-Yeah.

You take a wee shine to Jennifer.

-Rory? Listen.

-No, you listen.

Nobody touches her.

Rory does fancy her a little bit. I think he does.

He's noticed that she's an attractive girl, as men do.

We can tell the truth now Karen's not around.

We have a weird and wonderful relationship.

-There's nothing dodgy going on.

-No, nothing dodgy at all.

# You make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world

# Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love... #

It's the white stuff, isn't it?

-It's the fact that you're made of toothpaste.

-It's because I'm unique.

Yes, I've never seen anyone like you. Like a big eyeball before.

I think if Jennifer had any taste she would fancy Rory.

He's a really sweet and lovely guy.

I think Amy does have reason to be jealous, you know.

But I think Rory can't help but help a damsel in distress, too, and that's his soft side.

Amy's a lucky girl.

Yeah, she is.

I've got to look at it from Amy's point of view,

and you have taken a bit of a shine to this girl in particular.

Yeah, I'm definitely protective over her.

Yeah. Is it because she makes you feel like a man?

Yeah, in a way, in a sense.

-Amy doesn't make you feel like much of a man.

-No.

Where's the real Jennifer?

The REAL?

I am Jennifer Lucas.

I remember everything that happened in her entire life -

every birthday, every childhood illness.

I feel everything she has ever felt and more.

I'm not a monster. I'm me!

There's talk of a love triangle going on,

but for Rory, it's more of a triangle of trouble.

I think she really likes Rory and he's a really sweet and nice person

and he really takes her under his wing

when he sees her at her most vulnerable.

Help me, Rory. Help me.

She's in genuine trouble and clearly likes him.

And yeah, there are moments when he thinks it would be nice

if Amy could ever own up to the fact that she depends on me a bit.

So he's absolutely ripe to be exploited by someone who says,

"Oh, you're so great. You're a real comfort to me."

Because he's never heard those words.

He hasn't heard those words, ever. He's known Amy since he was a child, so he's just used to scorn.

I really like this in the story. I'm glad that it's taken this turn.

It's given me, as an actress playing Amy, something new to play,

because she's always had Rory in the palm of her hand,

so to have this happen just opens up loads of new avenues.

It's really weird for Amy as well

because she's obviously had a roaming eye in the past herself.

-Are you not going to turn your back?

-Nope.

So, yeah, she's obviously not too possessive like that

because she wouldn't expect Rory to be that possessive over her.

So, it's an interesting one to get.

I think Rory has to try not to be possessive.

I think he really has to keep it back.

He actually just wants to be going, "Hey!" all the time.

-But he has to play it cool.

-Amy doesn't dig that.

Yeah. Rory just wants to be cool.

-Action.

-What about the flares?

-Rory?

-Jen's out there.

She's out there and she's on her own.

If she's got any sense, she's hiding. Rory...

-I can't leave her out there.

-Rory!

I think that he wants to go out on a mission and prove himself, almost.

If he does that, he can prove himself as a man to Amy

and the Doctor, I guess.

Come on, get in here, get in here!

Close the doors. Rory?

I think, just naturally, as the man in the relationship,

he wants to assert himself a bit more.

He's got to man-up and finally he's doing that, which is good.

As Rory and Jennifer get closer, it seems to pull Rory

away from Amy, physically and emotionally.

Hopefully, that sets us up nicely for the big wallop at the end.

Show yourself. Show yourself!

The game-changer for this story is, what if the Doctor is duplicated?

What on earth happens then?

The most powerful player in the whole story,

what if there's two of him?

What will he be like?

Trust me.

I'm the Doctor.

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