SFX MAGAZINE: Doctor Who “A Town Called Mercy”: Ben Browder Interview
by Dave Golder
September 9 2012
Farscape and Stargate SG-1 star Ben Browder turns up as the Sheriff of a town called Mercy in next Saturday’s Doctor Who. And he’s pretty excited to have another sci-fi notch to add to the bedpost...
... SFX: How aware were you of Doctor Who before you were offered the part in “A Town Called Mercy”?
Ben Browder: “I’d seen most of it. The new show, I mean. My kids have seen all of the new series since Russell T Davies started writing it, back with Chris in the lead, so, yeah. We have probably half the DVDs in the house and yeah, I knew exactly what it was...”
(Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams and Ben Browder as Isaac [the Sheriff])
... SFX: Did you enjoy the Spanish location?
Ben Browder: “The location we shot at was just phenomenal. It was shot in Spain in Almeria where The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and all the spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone were shot. I was walking in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood! But it’s an odd sort of place because you’re in the south of Spain and here is this Western town, and when it’s not being used as a set, it’s used as a tourist attraction. So they have a kind of Western show that goes on and there’s guys wandering around in Western gear, riding horses with six-shooters. Of course, they only speak Spanish, and you’ve got the tourists kind of milling around..."
Doctor Who 'A Town Called Mercy' airs Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 9/8C on BBC America.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR DOCTOR WHO'S 'A TOWN CALLED MERCY.'
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