DOCTOR WHO - BBC: 'THE SNOWMEN' CAST INTERVIEWS
Doctor Who returns to BBC One at 5.15pm, Christmas Day in the spectacular adventure, The Snowmen. We’ve seen the trailer and various shots from it but they’ve just made us more intrigued! So we recently caught up with Steven Moffat and the cast in order to find out more about this year’s seasonal special...
... STEVEN MOFFAT is Doctor Who’s lead writer and executive producer. This is the third Christmas Special he’s written for the Doctor, but this year’s looks to be very different to the previous two…
Q: What can we expect from the Christmas Special?
Steven Moffat: "The Christmas episode is Doctor Who only more so and this year we're going for more epic. The Doctor, when we meet him, isn't in a good place. A bit like when we first encountered William Hartnell as the Doctor in 1963 - or indeed Christopher Eccleston in 2005 - this a cold and withdrawn Time Lord, wanting no part of the world around him. It's going to take a lot of Christmas spirit to get him back out of those TARDIS doors..."
... MATT SMITH is back as the Doctor in The Snowmen, but things have changed for the Time Lord… So what’s in store for him now?
... Q: But after he meets a feisty young governess, Clara, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman, do we see a change in the Doctor?
MATT SMITH: You get to see a different side to him. Clara is a very different to Amy Pond. That is the great thing about this show - reinvention, it keeps me as an actor on my toes!
... JENNA-LOUISE COLEMAN, who plays Clara in The Snowmen, made a surprise appearance in Asylum of the Daleks, so fans have already met the new companion ... Or have they? We caught up with Jenna-Louise and tried to get some answers!
... Q: You started filming Doctor Who earlier this year… How have you found the job so far?
JENNA-LOUISE COLEMAN: "Every day is really surprising. For the last two years I have mainly been doing period dramas, so to be thrown in to this world with loads of CGI is very different. Whole new sets are built in the space of a couple of weeks. For this episode we had snow machines and it does make you feel like a big kid!"
RICHARD E GRANT played the Doctor in the 2003 online animated series Scream of the Shalka and in a 1999 Comic Relief spoof, but now returns to Doctor Who in a more villainous role…
Q: What can you tell us about your character, Doctor Simeon?
Richard E Grant: "I have been told that on pain of death I am not allowed to reveal anything about my role in the Christmas Special, other than that this character has never been in Doctor Who before... I have had two 'brushes' with the Who phenomenon before, playing the Doctor in the cartoon digital version and the Comic Relief spoof some years ago, before the franchise was re-booted with Christopher Eccleston..."
Doctor Who's 'The Snowmen' airs in the US on BBC America on Tuesday, December 25, 2012 at 9/8C.
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