INTERVIEW: Jenna Coleman On The Day Of The Doctor - "It Felt Very Celebratory And Special"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYpI_Agw4sippwkKXhwjtotmGpzB-2mEScTaT7rduA-CB6mVFPxb4DS-wvd8Z4P9OMRrIJgOsAqvKreH7wHSLbS7XtYLpoTnbqbZtXBlqBquqtn8AF2dUFGmqMmDDB6zBClqbQ5e-5D86/s1600/DotD6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYpI_Agw4sippwkKXhwjtotmGpzB-2mEScTaT7rduA-CB6mVFPxb4DS-wvd8Z4P9OMRrIJgOsAqvKreH7wHSLbS7XtYLpoTnbqbZtXBlqBquqtn8AF2dUFGmqMmDDB6zBClqbQ5e-5D86/s640/DotD6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The BBC have released interviews with the cast of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special,<i>The Day Of The Doctor</i>. The 75-minute episode stars Matt Smith, David Tennant and Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt and will air worldwide on Saturday 23rd November.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jenna Coleman spoke to the BBC about how lucky she felt to be working with her co-stars and filming the episode</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><h3><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">INTERVIEW WITH JENNA COLEMAN – CLARA OSWALD</span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in the TARDIS, Jenna stars as companion to the Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith. Having met more Doctors than any other companion, this time she comes face-to-face with more than one Doctor at once.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Question: What is it like starring in the 50th special, one of the biggest year’s for the show?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Jenna Coleman: </b>It’s fantastic. I feel really spoilt to be honest and lucky to be in the show in the first place, but also to have come in at this time. Whilst we were filming it felt very celebratory and special. Working with David, Billie and John, I feel really pleased to be part of the whole thing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Q: What was it like working with David and Billie, was there any competiveness between the different Doctors and companions?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JC: </b>I think there’s a competitiveness in them that kind of brings out the best in the Doctor. You see it on set that they are so totally different Doctors, but they just complement each other. They make fun of each other mercilessly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Q: What were your thoughts when you first heard about John’s character?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JC: </b>So not only do we have David back, we also have John Hurt starring as the Doctor, which is massively exciting. And again the three of them complement each other totally, and it utterly works. It’s great to see all of them together.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Q: There are some big stunts in this episode. What was it like filming in the TARDIS dangling from a crane in front of crowds in <st1:street w:st="on">Trafalgar Square</st1:street>?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JC:</b> It’s one of the major stunts that we did and one of the big opening sequences at the beginning of the episode. We actually filmed it in a couple of stages including at St. Athens airfield where me and Matt were in the TARDIS being swung from side to side. Then in the second half, we were actually lowered down into <st1:street w:st="on">Trafalgar Square</st1:street>. I think it will be quite an iconic image, it certainly felt like that on the day. Although I didn’t get to the do the really high stunt in <st1:street w:st="on">Trafalgar Square</st1:street>, which I was devastated about and was kind of stood around begging people to go up, but I got to do the end of it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am quite scared of rollercoasters, but when you’ve got a camera pointing at you and loads of crew then you kind of just tend to be really brave. That’s one of the thrills of the show.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Q: What differences did you find filming in 3D compared to 2D?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JC: Loads of differences. Well for a start the cameras are massive, so you kind of can’t miss them and they’re really heavy for the poor camera operators. The framing is quite different and when the</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doctor points you can kind of really react to it. I just think the show lends itself so well and there are so many moments in it that will work really well in 3D. On the first day I saw Matt in the TARDIS in 3D and it felt like the world was coming right out at you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Day Of The Doctor</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th Anniversary Special: in 2013, something terrible is awakening in <st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place>’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://david-tennant.com/2009/id205.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about the special here</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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The BBC have released interviews with the cast of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special, The Day Of The Doctor . The 75-minute episode sta...

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