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Elisabeth Sladen interview - Radio Times, May 2006 |
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The actress behind former Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith talks to Nick Griffiths about her return to the Tardis.
On getting the offer to guest star in the new series
"My agent phoned up and
said that Russell T Davies and Phil Collinson
[executive producer and producer] would like
to take me out for a meal to talk about Doctor
Who. My agent was far more
excited than I was. I kind of thought I was
going to turn it down."
On Sarah Jane
"I walked away from this character,
but she never walked away from me."
On why she agreed to come back
"I already had this idea of where Sarah Jane
would be now. We sat down for dinner and they
said what they thought she'd be doing … and
I was gobsmacked! We got on so well it became a very rowdy
table, probably too much to drink, and I agreed
to do it. They had such a love of the programme
and I just thought, 'What a challenge!'"
On working with the new Who team
"I was
rung up and they said, 'Phil and Russell are
going for a meal with Billie and David. Oh, and
Stephen Fry's going to pop along.' I thought,
'Hell, I'm out of my league here!'"
"[I was at] a read-through of the first block [of filmed
episodes], so it was the Christmas story and two
or three others. There were about 100 people in
the room! The cameraman, bless, came up and
said he used to watch me as a child, and
I thought, 'I'm making a friend of you!'"
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