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David Tennant on Voyage of the Damned - Radio Times, December 2007 |
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The Doctor Who star tells Nick Griffiths what to expect from the 2007 Christmas special.
"Everyone got very twittery here when we heard that Kylie was coming," says David Tennant. "At planning meetings, there were all sorts of members of the art department explaining why they had to be on set. Because she's a legend in her lifetime, isn't she? The very prospect of Kylie coming in got everyone very overexcited.
"Then she arrives and is refreshingly normal and fun and easy and none of the things that I suppose a big pop diva has the right to be. She just gets on with it and is lovely to have around.
"I don't want to speak for her, but I think she quite enjoyed being part of a team. I imagine it must get quite exhausting being your own brand. When she came, she was just part of the gang, which hopefully was a nice thing for her to do."
And you don't have to wait long to see Kylie in Voyage of the Damned. "The Doctor and Kylie's character, Astrid, a waitress on the Titanic, find each other quite quickly. He helps her out and she ends up helping him out, and very quickly they become inseparable.
"It's a sort of disaster movie, which, as we're talking about a sinking ship, is what you'd expect. It's got a bit of The Poseidon Adventure, a bit of Titanic, a bit of Doctor Who and a bit of The Towering Inferno."
The cast includes Geoffrey Palmer, Clive Swift and Bernard Cribbins. "In the tradition of disaster movies, it becomes quite a tight little band; a gang of us were together pretty much the whole four or five weeks of shooting. And, again following the tradition of great disaster movies, you get to see life on all social levels aboard intermingling; people having to get along - or not - as the situation gets worse.
"Obviously, there has to be some sort of monster. It wouldn't be Doctor Who on Christmas Day
if there wasn't something to freak you out. They're all new. They don't have a name, but they're referred to as 'the Hosts'. There's a blankness to them that's definitely creepy. But all the scarier is what's behind them…"
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