"What is a monster?" "I prefer to call them creatures myself." "A monster is generally something that isn't human." "Moxx of Balhoon." "The best kind of monsters are the ones that terrify you." "What you want is a combination of suspense..." "Hello." "...and then something that doesn't disappoint." "The Face of Boe." "Weird and wonderful characters for the Doctor to face." "I don't know what." "What do you think a monster is'?" "NARRATOR"." "Safely behind that sofa?" "Then we'll begin." "Join Doctor Who Confidential as we take another look at Lazarus and celebrate the monster mayhem." "I think it's perhaps more politically correct to call them creatures." "Okay, cut there." "Doctor Who's creatures come in many a monstrous form, but none more beastly than Mark Gatiss." "It's brilliant, an absolute dream part, 'cause it's three villains in one." "It's a joy to cast Mark." "He's obviously been on our radar 'cause he's worked with us on scripts." "He's a fundamental part of the team, is Mark, and we've always been wanting to cast him in the right thing." "This is only the beginning." "We're not just making history, we're shaping the future, too." "It was actually very easy to direct Mark in the old and young 'cause he does it so incredibly well." "I'm going to perform a miracle." "It is, I believe, the most important advance since Rutherford split the atom." "I'm going to change from 76 to 40." "You will watch and wonder." "But tomorrow, you will wake to a world which will be changed forever." "It's a bit strange, really." "I look quite nice in the blond wig, but it's a bit weird to be sort of..." "I like to interpret it more that people are looking at me in a funny way because I've obviously shed 40 years, rather than because I've suddenly turned into Brad Pitt." "He's a human who only wants to be young." "I'm with him on this." "What a fantastic idea, if only it had worked." "I'd give my eye teeth for my own genetic manipulation device." "I'd be in there." "I am Richard Lazarus." "I am 76 years old and I am reborn!" "It may be Mamie dream role, but shooting the show has literally put years on him." "With any prosthetic, the first thing is we need a cast of the actor's face, and this effectively gives us a reproduction of their head." "Onto that cast, we model the whole look, so it's all done with wax." "And then we make molds of that and we fill that with a silicon gel material." "And it's really fleshy, really stretchy." "The majority of the prosthetic is one large piece, so that all gets pulled on." "He's covered in glue." "Everything's kind of glued down." "The edges are blended in." "So it's three hours in total to get it all on there." "It's really quite freaky talking to you like that." "To me, this is old man at BAFTA." "That's what I asked for." "Probably slightly too old to attend, but I'm going to come anyway." "It's sensational." "I'm over the moon, and really thrilled to work with David properly because we've done a few things together but we've never had much together." "We've got some proper scenery-chewing parts in this one." "That's great." " Are you looking mean and moody'?" " Yeah." " Good." "The one thing that's hard to find in South Wales is things that can work in Doctor Who as science fiction, but modem-day settings." "You want something that's sleek and sophisticated and shiny and gorgeous." "And sitting right on our doorstep there was the Senedd building, which is the Welsh Parliament." "This is where the guests at the party first see the creature." "They turn around and see the creature leap from the top up there, crash, land down on one of the tables." "The table is rigged to explode." "The legs will buckle underneath and the thing, hopefully, will collapse." "The guests flee, basically." "Everyone down the stairs now." "Don't panic." "Into the foyer." "Keep moving." "Lazarus, basically, in a rage, starts throwing the tables, one one way, one the other." "Leo!" "Having a stuntman is great because you can have somebody else get smashed in the face" "and then collect his man points afterwards." "The tables flying, one of which hits Leo, have to be lightweight because, apart from anything else, we can't damage this location." "It's rather precious." "The Welsh Assembly wouldn't be happy if all their slate was cracked." "I knew that Lazarus was gonna have Mark Gatiss' face in some way at the center of it," "but beyond that," "I'm slightly making it up in my own head during those scenes." "Whenever there's a monster in Doctor Who, we always want to make it CGI." "The Mill..." "I never cease to be amazed by the size of the team." "There is something like 50 full-time people sitting at computers." "It's like a hive in there, and each person's doing a different thing." "The first versions that we did, we took a whole load of photos of him." "We built his head fully in CG." "And then when we put that to the model, we were having problems." "It was just looking too much like a human head stuck on." "And we just had to try and make him feel a little bit more threatening, so we added bits in like the mouth that opens up," "really wrinkling up his face until it kind of felt right and it felt that it was sitting nicely on the model." "I thought it was time to ask The Mill for a really lively, big, cumbersome, but lithe creature that could move like lightning and strike people down and have a huge presence on the sets, so that's what they did." "And there he is, and he's brilliant." "Mum, get back!" "Everyone down the stairs now." "No!" "Get away from her!" "Lazarus!" "Leave them alone." "And cut." "Very good." "NARRATOR"." "In the past, the Doctor has faced some frightening foes." "Just what is the secret behind the scare'?" "What is a monster?" "That's a very big general question, isn't it'?" "It's the way it's always been." "The monsters and the Doctor." "It seems you cannot have one without the other." "Tell me about it." "You've dabbled with aliens." "Now meet the genuine article." "I don't think there are any essential ingredients when creating a monster." "A monster is a very pejorative term, isn't it'?" "A monster is generally something that isn't human, but human beings can be monsters." "We say "monsters"..." "I don't think you'll ever hear the Doctor use the word monster." "Nice needlework." "Shame about the face." "Oh, you are beautiful!" "To him, they're not." "They're aliens." "Well, you see, I don't think the Doctor would call them monsters, of course." "Because when does an animal become a monster?" "They're generally characters that provide a degree of jeopardy and threat to the lives of the people involved." "I think the more rooted in humanity they are, that's the scarier thing." " What are you?" " I'm the Wire." "And I'm hungry!" "The broader implication is evil and something to be feared." "And I think, as ever, it's more interesting if you think of each creature on its merits." "You know, you've got to be careful that to be alien isn't to be bad." "That's not something you want the program to say." "We are the Slitheen." "Back in the studio, it's not Lazarus that's putting the fear into the Doctor." "There's a stunt being rehearsed which is leaving him rather hot under the collar." "This sequence is tying in with where the Doctor is trying to make the lab explode by turning on all the gas taps." "David, whose idea was it for you to do the stunt'?" "I was never consulted." "I just picked up the schedule and I saw that I was there doing it myself." "It could have been mine and I don't remember that at all." "It was yours." "I think it was just generally assumed that it would be best if you did." "There's this whole thing about actors doing their own stunts, and if you don't do your own stunts, you're in some way, I don't know, wanting in manliness." "But the truth of the matter is that I wouldn't be allowed to do it unless it was completely safe." "This is usually a stuntman's job, but they asked me if I could use David, which made me a little bit nervous 'cause, obviously, you're talking about your lead actor doing it." "I tested it myself and we checked the heights of the fire and the distance, the safety distance." "I needed to gauge it with the heat and everything else before I could put my main actor in it." "Have you done one before with a fireball'?" " No." " No." "Action!" "And that's cut." " Thanks, Tom." " You're welcome." "Well done, Tom." "Monsters!" "Coming to eat us!" "What sort of monsters, sweetheart'?" "Is it aliens'?" "Defend yourself." "Don't kill him!" " What do monsters have nightmares about'?" " Me!"