03x13 - The Saxon Mystery

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03x13 - The Saxon Mystery

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Older, and older, and older.

I saw a picture of what he's gonna
look like so I had that in my head.

I haven't seen what they're
gonna make that little
homunculus Doctor look like.

I don't know.

We take the Doctor to that much
of a low so when he returns,

it's light shining and supernatural
power blazing out of him, so his
return is all the more glorious.

I just felt a bit of a goon, to
be honest. Flailing around for...

I think it had to be three minutes
because they removed so many frames

to get the amount of time
so that they could get this effect.

There was a lot of flinging
my arms around for a long time.

OK, cut, thank you.

I'm very happy with what we've got.

With the sound, and we put on all
the screaming and so forth

and the effect of the ageing,
it works out beautifully.

Older, and older, and older...

Received and understood, Miss Jones.

Let's have that back again.

In the script, it said the Doctor
is aged by years,

and then we have a sh*t
of a suit on the ground.

It says that the -year-old Doctor
pops up his head through the suit,

and it is a little wizened
creature on a thin little neck.

To do that, I had just a green ball
the size of his head on a stick,
which poked up through the clothes.

That will be replaced by
the CG doctor.

Lip synching is very difficult
to do and we almost always avoid it

because it's time consuming,
difficult and expensive.

However, the mill were
determined to have a go.

Why come all this way
just to destroy?

We covered David in beads around
all the muscle areas of his face,

which we then used for
tracking information.

They filmed me speaking the lines
but absolutely straight down

the lens, and then they will
use that to animate the speech.

But you're changing history.

Not just Earth, the entire universe.

I'm a Time Lord.

I have that right.

But even then,

why come all this way
just to destroy?

We come backwards in time,
all to build a brand new empire...

'I was just talking to nothing
in a cage!'

I was talking to an eye-line.

Can't you hear it?

He wants the Doctor to suffer, until
he ends up like a parrot in a cage.

It's the absolute humiliation
before the huge return.

We take the Doctor
to that much of a low,

so that when he returns, it's light
shining and supernatural power,

blazing out of him,
so it's all the more glorious.

I told them that if everyone thinks
of one word at one specific time...

Nothing will happen.
Is that your w*apon?

Prayer!

Doctor. Doctor.
Doctor. Doctor. Doctor.

He goes from little wee
-year-old Doctor to the
old Doctor we've seen.

Stop it.
No, no, no, no, no, you don't.

The one thing you can't do

is stop them thinking.

Tell me the human race
is degenerate now!

I knew in the script the Doctor
levitated, but nobody had told me
we were going to do it for real.

I assumed it was computer generated
until that morning

and there's this wire harness
and someone comes in

with one of those blooming things
that they strap you into that make
your back hurt for the next week.

So, yeah, a bit of wire work,
hanging in the air,
being pulled across.

It was not the most comfortable
morning I've ever had!

No!

Nooo!

I order you to stop!

ALL: Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!

The one thing you can't do

is stop them thinking.

It's a big deal, that moment,
for the Doctor.

He had to spend a year tuning
himself into this psychic network,

putting this plan together, relying
on Martha to go round the world

and save it from itself
and from the Master.

Open up this way a bit.

That's the opposite to how we did it
in the other one.

It's been a huge undertaking and he
does it, and he does b*at him

and he does literally
save the world.
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