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Peter Capaldi interview - Radio Times, April 2008 |
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Actor Peter Capaldi talks to Radio Times's Nick Griffiths about filming Doctor Who's The Fires of Pompeii.
"Everybody apparently comes on the show and says they're great fans of it. And usually it's just a lie," laughs Peter Capaldi. "But in my case it's actually true."
Capaldi grew up in Glasgow and watched Doctor Who since its earliest days with William Hartnell back in the 60s. "I'm a geek, you see," he admits. "I was devoted to Doctor Who. So I'm thrilled to be in it. I didn't even read the script, I just said yes."
So addicted was he that he'd write to the cast as a child and one day received back "this huge package," he recalls. "It was a pile of scripts of Doctor Who, from The Mutants [a 1972 Jon Pertwee six-parter]. I'd never even seen a script; I had no idea how all this worked. You can imagine how exciting that was. I've still got them. They're on my bookshelf."
So stepping onto the set of new Doctor Who must have been particularly exciting? "It was really quite moving, actually. I asked David Tennant where the Tardis was, and he said, 'I'll show you.' It was covered in drapes because they hadn't finished dressing it. And I pulled the drapes back and there it was. It's such a part of your childhood and you've survived - I'm nearly 50 - so to have a bit of your childhood still there, and the real thing, was very moving."
Capaldi plays marble merchant Caecilius, into whose family home the Doctor and Donna are drawn. Asked for a most memorable moment during filming, he says, "Being out on a mountainside with the Tardis, the Doctor and Catherine Tate. In the rain. In the middle of the night. In this very exposed, real environment. Quite magical."
Some of the cast filmed scenes on location in Rome. Is that where he was? "No. Merthyr Tydfil."
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