SCIFI AND TV TALK: Doctor Who's Karen Gillan Talks Season Seven
by Steve Eramo
09/02/2012
It is Karen Gillan’s last season as Amy Pond. Having travelled through space and time for three years, she is about to hang up her TARDIS key. Here, in the third of four BBC America press interviews, she gives us a glimpse at what is to come in episodes 1 to 3 from Daleks to Dinosaurs and some thoughts on her departure.
"It was AMAZING!" says Gillan. "We have totally made them scary again. I expect everyone to be watching from behind their sofas. I know I will…
"This season has been done in a really interesting way with five standalone epic episodes, like a movie a week, all building to the departure of Amy and Rory (Arthur Darvill)! We actually kick-off the season with Amy and Rory’s relationship in a sticky situation; it is less than marital bliss. Those scenes were really interesting to do", she explains, "because they created such a different on-screen atmosphere between Amy and Rory, something that the viewers wouldn’t have seen before. That is the good thing about Doctor Who, it gives you the chance to shift the character, and you never know what is going to happen from episode to episode..."
ON LOCATION
While the majority of the filming was done in the home of Doctor Who, Cardiff, Wales, the cast and crew found themselves in the perfect spaghetti western location of Almeria, Spain, giving Toby Whithouse’s episode 3, A Town Called Mercy, a truly authentic western feel... [NOTE: Farscape/Stargate SG-1's Ben Browder guest stars.]
"So much fun," claims Karen, "using a location that had actually been the set for other westerns made everything feel so much, well, authentic." In the episode, Amy Pond gets her hand on a gun, something Karen agrees that she really shouldn’t be let anywhere near. "Definitely, Amy Pond should be nowhere near a gun," says Karen. "I remember for a previous episode I had to fire a gun with blanks, followed quickly by Rory shouting, 'ARGHHH,' as though I had hit him. I completely forgot this when action was called, so when I fired and he shouted I really thought I had shot him! It was awful! In this episode when she gets hold of a gun you can see the fear on the faces of the other characters, but they weren’t acting, I genuinely think all of the actors including Matt and Arthur were in fear for their lives!"
Doctor Who season seven airs Saturday at 9/8C on BBC America.
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