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Russell T Davies on Love and Monsters - Radio Times, June 2006 |
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The Blue Peter Design a Monster competition gave Doctor Who's production team a worthy villain in the form of the vicious Abzorbaloff. Executive producer Russell T Davies tells Nick Griffiths how the episode featuring the voracious alien came together.
On the winning entry
"I thought the Abzorbaloff
was brilliant. It touches people,
absorbs them and their face actually
appears in the body - terrifying.
It's a genuinely good monster."
On writing Love and Monsters
"It's an experimental
script. Not so experimental that
people will run away screaming from
Saturday-night BBC1, because you
can experiment too much. People still
want a bit of a monster and a bit of
a thrill and a bit
of the Doctor, so it
still delivers as normal Doctor Who.
But just as you think you know
everything this programme can do,
this puts a little bit of spin on it."
On guest star Peter Kay, playing Victor Kennedy
"[Victor Kennedy is] a strange,
enigmatic man obsessed with the
Doctor. [He] has a sinister agenda all of his
own. It's a straight part, but it's still
very funny. Peter's not coming in
playing Ibsen. Actually, we don't
want anyone coming in playing Ibsen.
There's a size and a style to Doctor
Who, and a lightness and wit, no
matter how serious it gets. Peter
can capture that absolutely."
"He wrote to
me, having somehow found out my
home address. I'd love to know how he
did that. I don't think I would have
had the nerve to ask him, but he'd
said it first: 'If you want me to have
a go at it, I'd love to.'"
"I wouldn't have done it if it didn't fit
the right episode. But we had this
very funny and unusual episode…"
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