"Doctor!" "SHE BREATHES HEAVILY" "I've found us a spaceship." "It's into deep space and deep trouble as the Doctor makes a splash in his latest adventure." "Amy Pond." "SHE SCREAMS" "Karen brings so much of herself to the role as Amy." "kooky energy that she has in her life." "I have to say. she proves she's no ordinary girl." "Just stop." "stop it now." "no." "No!" "as we follow actress Karen Gillan to find out what it's really like to take on this challenging role. it's an episode packed full of firsts." "Now do you believe me?" "you're box is a spaceship." "really a spaceship." "We are in space." "Woo!" "SHE LAUGHS" "Walking onto the TARDIS for the first time was just... it's massive and beautiful and there's so many fiddly things and gadgets and so much going on." "That's interesting." "So we're like a wildlife documentary? they've got to keep filming and let it die..." "It's got to be hard. he looks like this mad professor in his haven." It was really cool." "I think Amy's going to have a great time in the TARDIS." "you'll see." "Doctor?" "Oh!" "'Welcome to London Market." "You are being monitored.'" "Episode two is our first journey into outer space and it's Amy's first time away from her own world." "take seven." "B Cam only." "And action!" "Oh!" "close the door." "hundreds of years in the future." "this is amazing!" "so I just channelled a bit of that into how I played Amy's first reaction wonder. so I just kind of beared that in mind." "isn't it wrong?" "What's wrong?" "Use your eyes." "Notice everything." "What's wrong with this picture?" "Is it...the bicycle?" "Bit unusual on a spaceship." "There's a girl in a nightie." "my God." "I'm in my nightie." "because it's set on a spaceship or in a strange world or something." "look around you." "Actually look." "'London Market is a crime-free zone.' but look closer." "society bent out of shape a police state." "Excuse me. where you didn't really get it and something you hadn't seen before." "Something utterly strange." "connected to Amy." "And the way it's connected to Amy is it's her country out in space." "but it's been bolted together and it's floating in the sky." "HE LAUGHS do you see it yet?" "Where?" "There." "The Doctor sort of discovers more and more about this very strange place that he's in." "so?" "Crying silently." "cos they're hurt or afraid." "it's cos they just can't stop." "Any parent knows that." "Are you a parent? which means they already know and it's something they don't talk about." "so it's something they're afraid of." "it's nowhere to be seen." "Which means it's everywhere. understanding who the Doctor is and this amazing roller-coaster ride that she's about to go on. so it really underlines the idea she's flown off with Peter Pan mad adventure on a fairytale spaceship." "Doctor?" "You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets unless there's children crying?" "Yes." "please." "'The first priority' was to find a location that obviously worked as a Starship UK." "Steven's description of that particular set was so specific that we were able to find that quite early. but it needed to come alive with design and art direction and lighting." "That's always a challenge." "And more than ready for the challenge are the Doctor Who art department team." "But it's no easy task converting a disused factory into the Starship UK. it's our fail-safe industrial space." "# You found a sweater on the ocean floor" "# They're going to find it if you didn't close the door." "# You and this model sit outside at the side" "# In a house on a street they wouldn't park on the night. #" "We've got our scenic artists here who are doing all the painting you can see on the walls. dressing the market stalls." "We've got our practical electricians who're wiring up the street lights." "basically." "what would you take with you?" "which is the Queen Vic straight off Albert Square. a zebra crossing." "we've got taxi ranks." "but on a spaceship." "We've been here two weeks and now the dressers have come in and they've got two days to fill in the detail but those are the sorts of schedules we work to." "the crew finally have a fully convincing starship street to shoot in." "I did want to shoot that scene in a big space." "I wanted the Doctor and Amy to make a real journey physically walking through and for the audience to go with them it needs a lot of dressing and a lot of people to populate it and create the society they're in." "And the task of ensuring that the Starship UK looks fully populated falls to the Third Assistant Director." "Copy that." "We've got 60 crowd in and a few kids." "It's quite a big space to fill." "this is definitely the biggest set-up so far." "We give you your cue to go through." "And you'd just be going in a nice banana around the benches and down into that bottom corner." "she's got quite a tricky job." "She's got to get them all moving across each other at different points so me and Amy can fleet round." "showing them your lovely tomatoes and carrots. so we've got a vegetable stall holder and people just generally shopping from him." "so there's been a bit of taxi action trying to make it look like a busy London street. so a real Del Boy market trader." "so we had an allocated chicken lady." "We had a load of the eggs and some real chickens so it's generally trying to replicate a busy London street and market scene." "it looks like they've walked into a vintage clothes shop and come out and everyone looks very cool." "they've really got that. it was great." "CREAKING" "But Amy wasn't expecting the Starship UK to be quite as mad as this." "Say what?" "!" "Say whee!" "AMY SCREAMS" "I was taking a bath" "# Long about a Saturday night" "# A rub dub just relaxing in the tub" "# Thinking everything was all right" "I stepped out the tub put my feet on the floor" "# I wrapped the towel around me and I opened the door splash!" "# I jumped back in the bath how was I to know there was a party going on?" "# They was a-splishing and a-splashing" "# Reelin' with the feelin'" "# Moving and a-grooving Rocking and a-rolling. #" "Swallow reflex!" "We were on the tongue of a giant whale." "we were just messing around the whole time throwing cabbage at each other and things. which is just really horrible goo mixed up with a food additive which is completely safe and it's coloured a sort of white colour" "and what I'm going to do is dress that over the set so both Karen and Matt will fall into the slime and get covered in it unfortunately." "I'm going to doing lots of steam." "Just to hide the fact that it's a set and it's only 12 metres wide." "Just to create a sort of atmos effect in there." "I'd say..." "Lancashire." "Chris." "keep thickening it up." "I will." "demanding for the artists. but we made sure we had our stunt co-ordinator there." "So it's feet..." "Slanting." "roll out." "Did you just give yourself a bruise?" "if you're going first..." "I'll try my right. so you'd walk up the back." "I love it." "You normally pay to do this." "I know." "This is when Doctor Who's brilliant. and it was basically a slide leading down on to loads of crash mats." "it's a six ft drop." "my God..." "So the drop's all right?" "Yes." "Yes." "Can't wait." "We both looked at each other as we do on a lot of occasions right?" "then go the other way." "if you land..." "Head first?" "What?" "let's go head-first backwards." "I want to see this." "we had to get our whole body in and then hold on to this pole thing." "Wish me luck! it was so scary." "mark." "everybody." "You get on the ride and then you'd hang on the back and go..." "Woom!" "'Into all the goo.'" "Aaaargh!" "Let me know when Karen's set." "that's Karen set." "one." "Karen." "Action." "Action and I just did it." "Karen." "Arrrgh!" "it was like being on a ride at a funfair or something. full of cabbage and tomatoes and everything and we spent the whole day in this pool of gloop." "The normal entrance is..." "You were so preoccupied with trying to stand up that actually I found that the acting was coming out cos we were sliding all over the place." "The normal entrance is... ..closed for business." "We could try though." "Don't move." "swallow reflex." "What are you doing?" "please have chemoreceptors." "Chemo what?" "The eject button." "Why would a tongue have an eject button?" "Think about it. it was getting quite cold." "Could it be quicker or is it quite nice to just enjoy it?" "it's great." "Let's take it from... let's take it from high-speed air channel." "All the way through. they were a bit tired and really wanted to get a shower." "I want to do one of the stage dives at the end." "I think probably going up and down a slide for most of the day I think I'd enjoy it." "Right then." "This isn't going to be big on dignity." "Geronimo!" "I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond." "# Fell in love with a girl I fell in love once... #" "You're the little girl?" "# She's in love with the world" "# But sometimes these feelings can be so misleading. #" "She's kind of got this inner confidence and she can really just handle herself in situations." "no." "What are you doing?" "Who are you?" "She's sassy and she's sexy and she's funny. have a good time and grab an adventure by the scruff of the neck." "yeah" "# My left brain knows that all love is fleeting" "# She's just looking for something new" "I said it once before but it bears repeating now. #" "It's minging." "she's sassy." "Watch and learn." "She's got boundless energy and she's not frightened to speak her mind." "Why did you say six months?" "Why did you say five minutes?" "She's as bonkers as the Doctor in many ways." "What are you going to do?" "What I always do." "Stay out of trouble." "feisty seductress... ball of wit! so he's so endeared by her and has such affection for her." "Are you're a policeman?" "Why?" "Did you call a policeman?" "Did you come about the crack in my wall?" "' he normally does it in front of somebody - his best friend." "The job is that he's the Doctor." "that couldn't happen." "So I came up with the idea of this girl who meets him briefly when she's seven he's been the Doctor for ever." "she knows him as the Doctor better than he does." "all those cartoons you did when you were little." "it's him!" "She's the girl who was left on her own by the Doctor aged nine and who has built up a lot of inner strength. something slightly "other-worldly"." "it's OK." "Who are you?" "I don't know yet." "I'm still cooking." "'" "Amy Pond." "One of the biggest he's had so far in a companion." "double click. who works hard to bring new qualities to the role of the companion." "has really brought a lot to this role." "I think she's brilliant." "She's fantastic." "It doesn't seem to matter what we throw at her." "or try and save the world wearing only her nightie." "She's equally fantastic." "I'm about to do a bit of a scary fall and I've got a board up my back." "So should be fun!" "I think Karen brings so much of herself to the role as Amy." "cooky energy that she has in her life. don't mess with me"." "There's all that in there as well." "We become closer every day." "I'm very fond of her." "Karen can kind of do everything." "I think the thing that we probably enjoy most about her while looking completely stunning all the time." "There was almost as much speculation about who we were going to cast as the companion we were led by our nose basically." "Steven had some fairly clear ideas about who Amy was but in terms of the development a lot of that is influenced by the actress playing the part." "So I was interested in bringing in people who could grab the part and run with it and do something interesting with it." ""Who do you think it should be?" "And he did turn up with a list of just brilliant actresses." "We did not see one single bad audition for Amy Pond." "really brilliant." "All actresses I would want to work with at some point." "Just perfect." "It's difficult because there's no one thing that qualifies anybody for the part. but" "Karen clearly was way ahead of the pack in terms of her inventiveness." "the new companion." "Ooh"." "It was very exciting." "I'll go for it and see what happens. but I just don't think we've found her." "I just know she's the one." "She's the one." "The very last person we physically saw for the part it's just a shame that she's so wee and dumpy." "Then I got a recall to come in and read it with Matt. so I had to give them a code name of "Panic Moon"." "which is quite clever. and I saw Karen walking along the corridor towards me " "That will probably work." "hilarious audition. so it was quite daunting walking in." "got her!" "that's her." "which was very nice." ""You've got it." "but it was really nice because it wasn't an agonising wait." "both being new." "Doctor Who." "It's such a tricky and brilliant show to make." "It's lovely to share that journey with someone. and then we did our first day on set then we got our first block finished." "we have all these really huge things in life that we share." "It makes you quite close." "she's a funny soul." "Hey-hey!" "Result!" "Coming?" "No!" "Suit yourself." "Stop!" "You mustn't do that!" "something madder and more fairy-tale." "Fairy tale is a very important tone for Doctor Who." "it is probably the darkest and most fairy-tale-like episode that we've done." "It is a vision of Britain far in the future where children mysteriously disappear down through the floors of lifts." "Fairy tales are the way we tell our children that there are people out there who might want to eat them." "They are warnings in fantasy form of the reality and the dangers of the world." "I don't mean Doctor Who is like a fairy tale." "I mean it literally is." "it's a fairy tale." "they're everywhere." "But they're just things." "They're clean." "Everything else here is all battered and filthy." "look." "Why are people scared of the things in the booths? these are going to be scary." "# Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag smile" "# While you've a Lucifer to light your fag that's the style" "# What's the use of worrying?" "# It never was worthwhile" "# So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag smile. #" "The Smilers are terrifying." "They are these horrible things." "their head twists round and then they turn into this dummy thing." "you're in trouble." "You're about to get arrested and something's awful's going to happen." "So they're bad." "I imagined it like a fortune teller's booth." "obvious robot." "I wanted something that was like something you find in a fairground." "One of those things that you think was meant to look friendly and pretty a bit decayed and a little bit too bright." "I've always found that terribly scary." "A painted-on smile is pretty much as bad as a painted-on snarl." "sinister thing." "You wanted the idea that this spaceship here's a frown." "it's all pretty frightening." "And it fell to the monster-makers to ensure the scripted Smilers turned out just as scary on screen." "So the first stage is the design process." "This comes from descriptions that are given in scripts." "we'll sculpt a Smiler face." "and it's from this mould that all of the master masks are then produced. so we would then get our frowner and then our demonic face." "This is the face of the happy version which has been made of fibreglass." "This is the mould." "So we'll just take it out of here. the art working stage." "which is basically paint-crack texture which would take absolutely ages to paint in by hand." "and that's when all the hard work gets shown on camera." "Mandy." "Timmy." "Zero." "And...action!" "And working alongside the sinister Smilers are the mysterious Winders. and it starts off with me." "but my head kind of turns round to reveal another Smiler." "How can there be Smilers?" "half-human." "And they've got the demonic smiles on the back of their face." "basically." "It was a seamless kind of prosthetic." "He had to act with his back to us with the Smiler face on the back of his head." "I think." "Very spooky seeing a man walking round set with two faces. so his head is on the back of it. and we literally swivelled him around against a green screen." "The finished result will be that his head will just spin in the hood to the demonic Peter." "Why do the Winders become Smilers? I'm aching for that to happen." "I want that head-revolve to happen at an unexpected moment and for you to realise that someone who just looked human is actually sinister and terrible." "That must happen in Doctor Who." "It's an absolute rule." "I am still your queen." "Liz Ten is quite a mysterious character at the beginning of the episode." "# I was five and he was six We rode on horses made of sticks" "# He wore black and I wore white he shot me down that awful sound down... # great big cape." "Can't mess around with her." "mate." "' hence Liz Tenth." "I am the highest authority." "sci-fi heroine-type character." "I said now!" "that awful sound" "# Bang bang I used to shoot you down. #" "Playing a mysterious stranger is always pretty tricky isn't it?" "But Sophie made it so cheeky and so funny and almost saucy." "A lovely performance." "Sophie Okonedo's been on my list for being in the show and I thought we'd never get her. and also we were quite keen in episode two to have somebody who had the status to play the queen." "brilliant actress." "I learnt a lot off Sophie." "you know." "This ship is travelling through space." "Doctor." "We're travelling among the stars in a spaceship that can never fly." "How?" "I don't know." "she just thinks she's on this mission to discover what her government are up to." "There's the darkness at the heart of this nation." "It threatens every one of us." "Doctor." "You're our only hope." "she's the queen - everyone knows her." "she has to wear a disguise." "I'm sure Elizabeth II does that all the time. and you really kind of stand out if you wear a mask!" "she does it to be kind of undercover." "which says a lot about Liz Ten. and it will always end at this choice between abdicating she's always chosen to forget." "She's made the choice to forget how the ship is flying and what's keeping the ship afloat." "it gets revealed what the truth of the situation is." "where she's been living the same... she's been doing the same thing over and over again for 300 years." "so that was a bit of a shock." "it's ten years." "I've been on this throne ten years." "Ten years." "always leading you...here." "'She sort of falls apart a bit.' 300 years ago. she's got more common as the years have gone past. 'then you must press the forget button." "untainted." "'If not..." "press the other button." "the star whale will be released and our ship will disintegrate." "'I hope I keep the strength to make the right decision.'" "She discovers that she is the architect of the mystery she's trying to uncover. always faced which even the Doctor really can't see a way out of." "Amy sees things differently." "we are in a lovely old abbey where we discover that the star whale is actually trapped in the torture dungeon of Starship UK." "What's that?" "the accelerator." "Starship UK's go-faster button." "Because they think that it will help the starship go faster and things if they trap it and torture it." "but also it's quite a heroic scene for Amy." "I let the star whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years." "I kill everyone on this ship." "innocent creature as painlessly as I can and then I find a new name because I won't be the Doctor any more." "There must be something we can do some other way." "Nobody tortures..." "Nobody HUMAN has anything to say to me today!" "The Doctor nearly makes a dreadful mistake." "He nearly kills the star whale cos he can't see any other way out of it." "It's the only thing he can think of doing." "because he would remember that for ever." "He'd never forget that scale of failure. it's the biggest gift she could give him. nor can that whale." "That whale isn't there as a trapped creature." "because it wants to be and to save those children." "the last of the star whales.'" "stop it now." "no!" "No!" "WHALE CRIES" "CRASH!" "PEOPLE SHOUT" "She stops the Doctor making one of the most terrible choices of his life to date. that actually the whale is very old and very kind and has come and is actually flying the ship of its own accord." "The star whale didn't come like a miracle all those years ago." "It volunteered." "You didn't have to trap it or torture it." "That was all just you." "It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry." "If you were that old and that kind and the very last of your kind... you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry." "And cut there." "Cut!" "She's privy to one piece of information the Doctor isn't." "She knows what he's like and recognises him in the star whale's behaviour." "but she recognises the same qualities of heroism in the star whale as she's always recognised in the Doctor." "He realises she made the right decision." "It's probably the first time in these first two episodes where he begins to look up to her as much as she looks up to him. which is to effectively kill something." "I think that's a very scary place for him to have been taken to." "What it proves is that Amy is a very worthy companion for him. certainly this version of the Doctor better than he knows himself." "I could've killed everyone here." "You could've killed a star whale." "And you saved it." "I know. and I think the Doctor realises that she's going to be more than just a girl Friday." "don't you think?" "The star whale." "All that pain and misery." "And loneliness." "I think that's when she really seals her place in the TARDIS for good." "And it just made it kind." "But you couldn't have known how it would react." "You couldn't." "But I've seen it before." "very last." "Sound a bit familiar?" "you know... very humble and very... in a way." "# Cos the season's change was a conduit" "# And we'd left our love in our summer skin... #" "Hey." "What?" "Gotcha." "HE LAUGHS" "Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd" "E-mail: subtitling@bbc.co.uk"