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Only 4 minutes and my arms are already flailing like a flamingo on ritalin.
Michael Sheen is best known for his live-action work — from Frost/Nixon and The Queen to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (in theaters starting next Friday) and this summer’s drama Beautiful Boy — but he offered up his voice talents for this Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who, airing on BBC America at 9/8 p.m. CST. The Doctor (Matt Smith) travels to a junkyard planet and meets a woman and her oddball family in this episode written by sci-fi and comics legend Neil Gaiman. Sheen is a friend of Gaiman’s, and he voices a character in the episode, titled “The Doctor’s Wife” (check out a preview below). The online rumor mill seems to think he’ll be one of the tentacle-y alien Ood, but this is Doctor Who so who knows. (Pun intended.)
Sheen has been a big fan of Doctor Who ever since watching the British series during his formative years growing up in Wales. “Jon Pertwee was my first Doctor, and then Tom Baker,” Sheen recalls. “Doctor Who was a fixture in a lot of people’s lives as they were growing up in the ’70s. It was a very sad sight to see Doctor Who declining, and then eventually being cancelled, so it was wonderful to see it coming back in a new and reinvigorated way. It’s been one of the great cultural phenomena of the last few years here in Britain.” And America, too, as the show and character are more popular than ever before on this side of the pond.
Doctor Who has also been a source of excitement for the people of Wales, since Cardiff has become a home base of sorts for the show. The mastermind behind the Doctor Who resurgence, writer-producer Russell T Davies, hails from the same area in Wales as Sheen, a native of Port Talbot. “I’ve known him since I was about 14, and we were in the same youth theater together,” Sheen says of Davies. “It’s wonderful to see so much Welsh talent behind it, and it’s really had a huge impact on the local economy and local self-esteem. There’s now a real infrastructure in the area that is developed for Doctor Who but is now able to support other productions as well, so it’s made a big difference.”
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The junkyard planet looks amazing - how much of it was a set and how much was added with CGI?
“I’m not sure if I can really say as I’ve not seen it, sorry! All I can say is that we filmed it in a quarry in Wales and we had to start at 5 in the afternoon, then I was getting in at 7 in the morning. So I was watching Daybreak or whatever as I was coming in after being in a freezing cold quarry all night. They created a world within the quarry that looked beautiful when it was lit in the middle of the night, but what I was told is that when I was pointing things out in this quarry, they’ve spent a lot of money on expanding this world. I’ve been told that it looks great.
“Me and Matt had a lot of fun together and I hope that comes across as well.”
“Perhaps there’s still someone who doesn’t know that my episode of Dr Who goes out in the US & UK on Saturday. But I doubt it.” -Neil Gaiman.
Exclusive: Cult screenwriter, novelist and comic book writer Neil Gaiman talks about his upcoming episode of Doctor Who, “The Doctor’s Wife” premiering Saturday, May 14th at 9pm/8c on BBC America. Will it explain the Doctor’s marital status? Don’t miss all-new episodes of Doctor Who Saturdays at 9/8c only on BBC America. For another exclusive with Neil Gaiman see: http://bit.ly/Neil-Gaiman_exclusive2
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from The Doctor’s Wife.
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“The Doctor’s Wife” #2 of 3
Original, another homage to Saul Bass
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from The Doctor’s Wife
And why it could be the episode to show your friends to get them hooked on Who.
Basically: Saturday. will. be. epic.
This last, from the Blogtor Who site, is the Doctor Who Confidential trailer from this week. When I went to Cardiff last year I was followed everywhere by the Confidential team, which was brilliant as it meant I was allowed to poke around in crannies and wander all over and generally do things that writers are (very wisely) discouraged from doing (as recorded in this blog entry). It’s long enough ago that I have no idea what was actually filmed or said, and will be watching it next week when it airs very nervously, hoping my hair doesn’t do anything particularly unlikely while people are looking. And yes, Spoilers.
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the doctor and Gaiman, amd sonic screw drivers…these are a few of my favorite things..
