"B camera." "Action." " Oh!" " River?" "As Confidential goes backstage, some old friends, good and bad, pay the Doctor a flying visit." "So you've got River Song coming back." "Yep." "It's an angel." "I think that the Weeping Angels are absolutely terrifying." "We had to bring them back." "And they are out in force." "Set?" "Set." "And... action." "The show gets off to a flying start," "River Song makes a surprise return and this time she makes sure she does it in style." "What we were trying to achieve was a kind of shock moment and surprise and just the sense that River is this kind of mad adventurer." "I needed to see what was in your vault." "Wait till she runs." "Don't make it look like an execution." "Like I said on the dance floor, you might want to find something to hang on to." "So it was, yeah, it was quite a complicated set-up, certainly the most complicated set-up that I've done before." "Yeah, it was green screen, River on wires, the Tardis on this rostrum." "It was a bit of a number, really." "You know your arms just came out." "I just wondered whether you'd done that consciously or it was just..." "I was just standing back, I can do with them whatever..." "No, no, no, no, natural's good." "When you come out naturally, you naturally put your arms out like that." "And obviously I'm going to cut to her doing the turn, whichever way." "We had a stunt double for Alex today, anyway." "'Cause when we do wire stuff and jerk-backs, pulling artists backwards, you know, quite fast, so we obviously have to have a stunt double there." "Reversing and it's all yours, Crispin." "Okay, three, two, one..." "Oh, I'm definitely doing that!" "Oh, my God!" " Wait a minute, that's half-speed." " It's like Tinkerbell." " That was half-speed." " Finally, yeah." "Oh, that looks really exciting." "Okay, let's set it up for a full-speed take, please." "I've never been on wires before." "I've never done any sort of stunt like that, and I really was excited." "And if you start with your arms behind the wires..." "What..." "Once you're behind the wires..." "So, when you're backwards..." "But then when you go forward," " you've got to lift them through." " I've got to lift them through." " So, yeah, watch your handbag." " Okay." " So, because I've got to be back..." " Yeah, so you'll have that this side" " to start with, your arms..." " Okay, do I have to have it out like that?" "Can I not have them like that, forward?" "Yeah, okay, see how it feels when you've got the wires..." "It is very complicated, 'cause we'll obviously get her..." "We got to get Alex to be flying backwards exactly in frame in the cameras." "So we've got to make sure all our wire rigs are exactly in the same position." "We've got to have the speed for Alex to get blown out of the airlock." "So we have to do a complicated rigging system to make her come out very fast, but also in a straight line." "So, John, what we do when we put Alex on the wire, we'lljust lift her up, just with Bob, just so she can take the weight off her feet" " and see what it feels like." " Let me know when you're happy." " Everything all right?" " Yes." " Okay, standby to shoot." " Okay, Bob?" "Now, just to confirm, guys, this is a full-speed take, with effects and everything, okay?" "Okay, in three, two, one..." "Action." "Poor Alex Kingston was sort of hoisted up about," "I don't know, 15 foot." "And she'd got a wind machine behind her." " Down now." " Alex..." "I loved it." "I absolutely loved it." "It was like being on a fairground ride for a moment, we did a..." "Her first one was very, very slow." "Obviously, you know, a slow speed, just to get her used to it." "And just the look on her face was, "I wanna go again, I wanna go again. "" "No, she was very good." "Alex is very, very good." "The other coverage of that scene was River actually landing in the Tardis, which we shot in the Tardis and, in fact, it was Matt's idea, it's not actually scripted, that she lands on top of him." "But it was something that Matt came up with in rehearsal that we just thought it might be quite funny if" "River sort of suddenly like, bam!" "And he's looking up at her." " Doctor?" " River?" "Rehearsing and... action." "I'm sort of leaning out like this, and then she's thrust at great speed as well, sort of into me, and lands pretty much directly on top of me." "Matt was standing there and I sort of just had to throw myself at him and we both had to collapse onto the floor." "She would try and land as politely as possible." "And I know that a couple of times" "I absolutely did knee Matt in the goolies." "River!" "Nearly." "Nearly on me knackers." "Her knee was just sort of going somewhere where the sun doesn't shine, as it were." "Can we say that?" "And we would laugh greatly." "River!" "Stop it, girl!" "Time is money, people." "The Doctor's day is going from bad to worse, as some far-from-heavenly visitors rear their angelic heads." "Doctor, what do you know of the Weeping Angels?" "Well, let's be clear." "I'm running the show, and those were my monsters and they were incredibly popular, so I'm bringing them out for a... a lap of honour." "I think that the Weeping Angels are absolutely terrifying." "I think that they are the scariest monsters in Doctor Who, ever." "When you see them at first, they're all so..." "They're really beautiful and graceful and there's something really, really eerie about that." "And then when they get all fanged and feral, it's just, it's really shocking when you look at it." "It does actually make your heart go..." "for a second." "I just..." "I think they're terrifying." "Most of the Weeping Angels aren't statues at all." "They are girls painted like statues, who just sort of stand around and chat to you while you're on set, which is simultaneously reassuring and a little bit creepy, 'cause the stone effect that's painted on is really convincing." "There are a couple of angels that are actual, proper statues." "But mostly what you're looking at are actresses painted in stone." " Morning!" " Morning!" "We're back!" "To dress the artists in their outfits and make-up, it takes an average of between two to three hours, depending on which angel it is." "That's the base colour." "We've got to cover all her arms, chest and back." "Everywhere we can see skin." "And we need to do two to three layers." "And so we do a whole layer, hair dryer, dry it, powder it, as it's quite sticky." "Another layer, same thing." "And hopefully, then there'll be no pink showing and we can do, cover the next stage." "It's cold when you get it put on, but it kind of insulates as well." "This is the corset they wear underneath their top." "This is for the wings." "If you could turn round." "The wings clip on here." "I think the worst part's if you get an itch or something, you can't do anything, so you've got to rub it or poke it." "But she's brilliant, Sarah, because she, I don't know how she does it, but she's one of the best ones for keeping it on." "It's not too bad, but you try not to speak." "You just, like, give thumbs-up, or like... you know." "That wasn't us." "It wasn't us." "And action." "The angels give Amy the roughest time of all, and it's down in the caves that she starts to see their true colours." " You get in position, Henry." " Oh, good." " Oh, that's good." "That's it." " Yeah." " That's exactly the sort of thing." " Yeah." "It's getting rid of all the dust stuff that comes off it." "Which is difficult, isn't it?" "What I can do is try and reduce it slightly." " I can reduce..." " What's really nice" " is just that string..." " Yeah, I mean, obviously, it's 'cause the material itself is dust, basically." " Yeah, yeah." " You always get a residual amount." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "Okay." "But that was good, just that last bit, you know..." " That's what I thought, yeah." " Right, so it's a case of..." "She's just got to..." "She has got to slightly cup her hand..." " Before that." " Okay." "My original brief was quite a sizeable amount of dust actually coming through the fingers, but it's sort of changed slightly, so I kind of adapted the rig slightly by just simply putting a patch on the eye," "making a little pocket full of dust, so when she applies pressure it just comes through the fingers." "So, this will be over your eye, so it will be like a little shelf of dust actually attached to the eye patch itself." " Okay." "Ah!" " So, when you rub your eye, it willjust feed through your fingers, all right?" "So I'm just going to put a little something over there, and then, and then, build it up, all right?" "It was really strange, because they had to seal my eye off with this kind of sticky thing, so that was really strange in itself, because I was completely disorientated." " Oh, this feels really weird." " Does it?" " You all right?" " Yeah, no, it's fine." " We'lljust take you up now." " Okay." " Are you okay?" " Yeah." " Come with me." " Right." " You all right?" " Yeah, no, I'm fine." "And then they had to sort of put a little ledge on sort of the centre of my eye, on which they put lots of dust." "And that was quite strange, 'cause it was kind of going everywhere." " Clack it." "175, take one on B camera." "Cameras cut!" "End board."