"Who are you'?" "It doesn't matter 'cause we're off." "Nice to meet you." "Come on." "I'm playing an evil genius in Doctor Who, how cool is that'?" "265, take 2." "My first day has been a lot of fun." "Not least because I had to say," ""The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe,"" "which I still can't say." "The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy..." "Hagen..." "No, sorry." "On set it was getting harder and harder." "The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy..." "Sorry." "What'?" "The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe." "I love the cheek of the writing, you know." "Russell, you know, Blon Fel Fetch is somebody's name." "You know, Blon Fel Fetch Slitheen." "Rexicoricophalvitorius and the Jagrafess." "Rexicoricophalvitorius!" "Easy." "Easy." "And I just kept saying, "Maxa hagant pagant hagant pagant."" "The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe." "What the is wrong with me'?" "I was getting really tense." "Not because everyone was getting fed up with me, because they weren't, everyone's so nice." "There's such a great, sort of, atmosphere on set." "It was everyone was really wanting me to do it." "I can feel everyone going, "Come on, Simon." "You can do it this time. "" "The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy..." "Can I just figure out what it is before I say it'?" "Nipples!" "We'll pick that up." "And as I approach the word like some kind of hurdle in the distance on a running track, you could feel everyone's buttocks clenching as I got closer to it." "Edited by my superior, your master, and humanity's guiding light, the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe." "I call him Max." "Ow!" "What a thing to have to say on your first day." "The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic..." "I can't even say it now!" "I never wanna say it again." "Right, enough about me." "Bring on the evil geniuses." "The Lady Cassandra O'Brien dot Delta 17." "I am Henry van Statten." "Now recognize me." "I love an evil genius." "Liar!" "Speak to me, Dalek." "Moisturize me." "In every episode, the Doctor meets... another genius with an ego as big as his." " Yes." " Is that all I'm gonna get'? "Yes."" "Yes." "You know, there's always kind of a standoff, basically, and it's usually a blokey standoff." "You're no fun." "Let me out of these manacles." "You'll find out how much fun I am." "He's tough, isn't he'?" "He always meets somebody that he doesn't like and that kind of kicks the whole thing off." " Time Lord." " What'?" "Oh, yes!" "The last of the Time Lords..." "It's just great when you get Chris Eccleston in a room with Simon Pegg in a room and you just get them firing dialogue off each other." "It makes your life easier." "It's the sort of thing you sit there thinking," ""Why, they could carry oh talking for another 1 O pages and I'd be laughing."" "274, take 1, A camera." "Oh!" "You're full of information." "But it's only fair we get some information back because, apparently, you're no one." "I'm playing the Editor." "Our information has been tampered with." "There's a second biography hidden underneath." "Yes, sir." "He's a banker, he's an accountant, he's the scum of the Earth." "And he's working for this piece of meat, sort of, creature, called the Jagrafess, which lives in the ceiling." "I am the, sort of, the human go-between and the Jagrafess is controlling humanity." "So he's employed me to just convince them all to keep small and make them think that they're running the universe." "They're all human, what about the millions of planets, the millions of species?" "Where are they'?" "Good question." "Actually, that is a good question." "The horrible turncoat that's kind of doing his dirty work." "The whole thing is really about the way the media can manipulate culture." "I get it, you broadcast the news." "We are the news." "We're the journalists." "We write it, package it and sell it." "Six hundred channels, all coming out of Satellite Five broadcasting everywhere." "Something... is wrong." "Something fictional." "It's funny when you sit there going, "Right, I'm going to do an evil genius now."" "it took a long time to go through all the old cliches, as it were." "I mean, they're all clichés, and arrive at the fact that this is Doctor Who for the year 2005 and, actually, you want something that kicks ass a bit." "There's the truth!" "You are lying to the people." " Oh, I love it." "Say it again." " This whole system is corrupt." " Who do you represent'?" " I am merely a humble slave." "I answer to the editor-in-chief." "Who is he'?" "Where is he'?" "He's overseeing everything, literally everything." "If you don't mind, I'm gonna have to refer this upwards." "I mean, one of the things with the Editor was let's not put him in a silly costume, let's not have, you know, capes and nonsense going on that the evil geniuses tend to wear." "Let's just put him in a suit and, I mean, a really sort of 20th-21st-century suit." "So you can actually connect with the images of sharp and sexy." "My make-up is quite alarming because they've bleached my eyebrows and I can't see them anymore." "I work in this very cold room and I work in there all the time so I'm kind of like Jack Frost." "They dyed my beard and they've dyed my hair and my face is all pale." "And I'm wearing these contact lenses." "I don't know if you can see them." "They make my eyes very blue, and it's great, it's dressing up." "And I'm wearing a really sharp suit as well." "So, I'm loving it." "But for the director, however, the star of the show must be the giant Jagrafess." "Yes, this is the Jagrafess, or a first rendition of it." "It starts off as a, sort of, steaming ceiling of meat and then becomes this thing." "He was a very good example, actually, of organically developing creatures 'cause, originally, if you read the first script of episode seven, he was the ceiling, was this wall of meat, I think Russell described him as." "And he kind of evolved, I think with Brian Grant getting involved, into a creature." "I think it was Brian felt that it needed a bit of impact." "If you were gonna tease the audience throughout an episode, you needed to see something a bit more animate come the end." "Where it will be is just a green screen." "We'll get the actors, shoot them within the control room set and put a 3-D animated monster in there, dripping gunge." "I can see the smallest doubt and crush it." "One of the things about the Editor is that he's not really the villain." "He's...the front man for the villain who's really bad in it, which is the Jagrafess." "And then, behind that, there's the question of how did the Jagrafess get where it is'?" "Who installed that'?" "But you couldn't have done this all on your own." "No." "That will be answered at a later time." "Actually, sir, if it's all the same to you, I think I'll resign." "Bye, then." "We haven't actually got any real evil geniuses because I don't believe that exists." "Actually, it's like, I think that you're writing nonsense when you write someone who's going, "Ha, ha, ha!" "I'm gonna destroy the world. "" "it's like I don't actually believe in them." "And whenever we come across a character who might be in the place of an evil genius we try to give them motivation and background and depth and good dialogue and a sense of humor as well, so that they're not just nonsense cardboard characters." "In episode six, Henry van Statten made some entrance." "The President is ten points down." "I want him replaced." "I don't think that's very wise, sir." "Thank you so much for your opinion, you're fired." " Get rid of him." " What'?" "Wipe his memory, put him on the road someplace..." "I don't think van Statten is inherently evil." "There are people through history who have been inherently evil." "I don't think van Statten would go down as one of them." "I think he's more misguided." "Exterminate." "I've killed her." "I'm sorry." "What he wanted, what he thought he wanted when he was young, was to just reach up and do something great." "To reach for the stars." "I think, kind of, what he forgot was to keep his feet on the ground." "He got a little bit lost." "And, you know, he's paid the price." "What the hell are you doing'?" "Even with van Statten left in the gutter, there's still one young, misguided genius looking to the stars." "Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit." "Ah, right, you're a genius." "Sorry, but, yeah." "I can't help it, I was born clever." "When I was eight, I logged on to the US Defense system, nearly caused World War III." "What, that's funny, is it'?" "You should have been there, just to see them running about." "Fantastic!" "Part of episode seven was designed to be not too Doctor-and-Rose heavy, actually, because it is a tough filming schedule." "Adam gets a lot of plots to himself and the nurse, played by Tamsin Greig, comes in." "Sorry." "Floor 16." "That's, um, what do you cover'?" "Medical non-emergency." "Right." "I'm having technical difficulties." "My screen keeps freezing, locking me out." "No, that's medical." "There must be something wrong with your chip." "Yes." "Yeah, of course, yeah." "I haven't got one." "No wonder you can't get a screen to work." "What are you'?" "A student?" "Adam doesn't realize he's out for his own good until he's put in a situation of temptation where knowledge and information and power are put in front of him." "He's a little bit ambitious, he's a little bit too clever for his own good." "Oh, my God." "I am gonna be sick." "So it's a chance to see someone starting on that path which the Doctor cuts dead." " I just wanted to help." " You were helping yourself." "I'm sorry and I've said I'm sorry." "And I am, I really am." "But you can't just leave me like this." "Yes, I can. 'Cause if you show that head to anyone, they'll dissect you in seconds." "You'll have to live a very quiet life." "Keep out of trouble, be average." "Unseen." "Good luck."