"St Austell, Cornwall." "Out of season, the harbour's a pretty chill place, but not for the next few days." "Look, look, you're on Doctor Who Confidential!" "The Doctor Who cast and crew have sailed into town and are dropping anchor to film their very own pirate adventure." "A big, huge pirate ship..." "That's a win!" "Yo ho ho!" "Cut!" "Welcome to Doctor Who doing pirates." "47, take 1." "It's got pirates, double win." "Hugh Bonneville is amazing." "Time to go." "And watch out for Amy with a sword, that's all I'm going to say." "First of all, we've got the pirate hat, which just finishes the whole thing off." "I think the Doctor particularly sort of loves the idea of being a pirate, you know?" "Because there are..." "He's kind of a good pirate." "And then, on top of it, we've got the coolest pirate coat ever!" "And it swishes as well." "Look!" "Swish!" "I'm actually deeply jealous of your pirate coat." " It's so cool, isn't it?" " Yeah." "This episode is pretty piratey." "I think they've managed to fit in as many pirate elements as possible." "He slipped in the bilge water, Captain, and fell under the rigger." "What do you think when you think pirates?" "You think there'd better be treasure." "No!" "This is the treasure of the Mogul of India." "Oh, good." "For a moment there, I thought it was yours." "There'd better be a stowaway little boy on board as well..." "Fool!" "You fool, boy!" "...who's run away with the pirates to have more exciting adventures than he'd have at home." "You've just got to do all of that!" "We got the Black Spot." "Same as all the others." "Mutiny." "What are you doing?" "This is mutiny!" "Pirates have to mutiny." "If there's no mutiny, they're not proper pirates." "Walking the plank, that was hilarious." "I suppose laughing like that in the job description?" ""Can you do the laugh?" "Check!" "Grab yourself a parrot!"" "No parrot." "Erm, maybe they've hidden one." "Maybe that's a good game, see if you can spot the parrot." "There isn't a parrot." "There may be a pirate with a good heart who isn't really evil." "Who are you, Henry Avery?" "Respected Naval Officer, wife and child at home." "There'd better be a storm at sea, there'd better be a ghost ship, there'd better be all those things, and best of all, there'd better be..." "Boo!" "Throw the gun down." "...the beautiful Karen Gillan swashbuckling around with a cutlass." "Aaargh!" "Hey!" "Initially when I read the pirates episode," "I think it said in the script..." ""Amy Pond emerges with sword in hand... "" "You know, with the full outfit on." ""Amy Pond, a pirate queen. " And I was, like, "Yes, that just sounds amazing!"" "Look, I'm a pirate queen, Confidential!" "Aha!" "En garde!" " Can we do it, like, a half...?" " I wouldn't do it, it's really sharp." "We start off getting used to moving the sword around and to what it feels like." "Take that!" "Yeah!" "Come on, then!" "Yeah." "And then I'll put some basic moves together with her and the stunt guy." "So it's up..." "One... two... three..." " Head, other side, bang, run." " Run." "Do it again." "Shoulder, leg, leg..." "At an angle." "Swing like that." "They were just telling me, "Go for the neck." ""Go for it!" And I had..." "It was a real sword." "It was blunted, but it would have done some damage." " Aim for the neck." " Okay." "So I just sort of got over my fear and really went for his neck." "It's so much fun!" "I was a little bit nervous, actually, I must say, before I came down to Cornwall for the rehearsal." "Oh!" "That's it." "Because a lot of people do fencing and stuff at drama school, but I've never done any of that." "So it was all new to me, but I'm loving it!" " Here we go." "Karen, happy?" "Happy!" "55, take one." "Time for the real swashbuckling to begin." "Action!" "Magic!" "Lots of cutlass action." "Just about everything you could want in a stunt fight." "Woah!" "Look at Karen!" "They can't pay us for this." "She's just on a ride." "It's ridiculous." " Cut there!" "Cut there, please." "And cut!" "Good." "Check it." "But some stunts need someone who really knows the ropes." "We had to bring in a stunt double for this." "This is when the angry Siren sort of screams at Amy and she gets flown across the deck and smashes onto the deck." "We'll go on "three, two, one, go!", yeah?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "The stunt performer actually did get thrown across the deck and bashed onto the deck itself." "She was wearing padding, but this is something we could never do with Karen." "Three, two, one." "Action!" "Cut." "This is rather bizarre." "So I am about to watch myself getting flung across the entire deck." " Yep!" " Three, two, one." "Action!" "I don't know, it's like having an out-of-body experience." "She's a brave lady, Steph." "Stunt double Steph." "Well, I think they're about to go." " I'm quite nervous." "For rehearsal, please." "And three, two, one." "Action!" "And cut!" "Really glad that's not me!" "Wow!" "Oh, she's really getting thrown back!" "That is going to look wicked." "Three, two, one." "Action!" " You all right, Steph?" " Nice one, mate." "If you're going to do pirates in Doctor Who, you've got to do the whole thing." "It's one of those episodes where we're just properly delivering everything you'd want about pirates, and one of the things you expect if you're at sea on a pirate ship is you better have a storm." "It's quite complicated, because there are a lot of elements being brought together in one place." "The special effects department providing wind, rain and smoke." "Now we're just getting into the meat of today, which is the big scene where all the artists are getting completely drenched." "It was torrential rain." "It was like nothing I've ever experienced, the extremity of that situation." "I don't think I'll ever experience anything like that again." "It was freezing, it was cold, we couldn't hear anything, and it was just so much fun." "It's funny because normally in a storm, you don't really want to stand outside for too long." "You know, it can be fun for a bit, but really, it's all about getting home." "But we were out there for ages and loving every second of it." "We were blowing water at the cast with these massive fan machines, almost like aircraft engines, really, so the noise that they make is incredible, you can't hear yourself over them." "So often, at the end, I'd be yelling, "Cut!" "Cut!"" "But nobody would hear, so they'd carry on filming." "The adrenaline kind of kicks in and you just go for it, and there were so many times when we looked round and went," ""We're on a boat!" ""We're doing a storm!" "This is pretty cool!"" "Rory!" "Rory." "Rory!" "Doctor, I can't see him!" "There was a rumour that I was going to have to go in the water, and at first I was, like, "Yeah, I can definitely go in the water!" ""This'll be brilliant!" "I'll do it, I'll do my own stunts. "" "And then, and then I heard on the day that I wasn't doing it, and I was, like, "Oh, guys, I can do it!" "Surely I can do it!"" "And then I saw the water and I was like," ""I am so pleased that I didn't have to go in there!"" "Rehearsal." "Three, two, one." "Action!" "Rory!" "We're all happy with that." "That's all good." "Yeah." "The hardest part is maybe to sell the fact that he's been hit by the yardarm, so we have to make sure that the yardarm can get out far enough to hit him and also sell the fact that it's hit him so hard" "that it's knocked him overboard." "Let's have a look at one, yeah?" "Okay, ready?" "So we had a couple of guys giving it a good shove, and we had to wait until it actually makes contact with Gordon, and then he can sell the rest by going backwards into the water." "Three, two, one, action!" "That was the hardest thing." "Because the rain's falling so heavy in me eyes," "I can't actually see what's happening." "It's very difficult to see when the yardarm's coming." "Action!" "I would have done it, it would have been fun, but Gordon's much better at getting wet than I am for some reason, so they had to get him to do that." "Apparently, I'm not particularly good at getting wet." "Rory!" "Rory." "Rory!" "Doctor, I can't see him!" "Doctor, I'm going in." "Help!" "It's good fun, though!" "Great fun!"