Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 2, Episode 1 - New New Doctor - full transcript
GATISS: Watch out,
there's a new Doc on the block.
Did you miss me?
He might look different,
he might sound different...
Fantastic.
...but when it comes to time travel,
he's the same old Doctor.
-You're so different.
-New new doctor.
It's a Doctor's life for David Tennant
and he's the perfect 19.
-Hello.
-Hello.
It's summer 2005, and the Doctor Who team
are battling with the elements to film
the opening scene of the brand-new series.
We're arriving on New Earth,
which is the Gower Peninsula near Swansea,
and it's blowing a gale.
Action.
-What's the city called?
-New New York.
Come on.
(LAUGHING)
Just a face full of hair!
Cut.
We were supposed to be here
slightly earlier in the summer
and various shooting schedule things
meant that we're a bit late.
So it's a little bit more
wintry than intended
but once the computer people have fiddled about
with it, it's going to look extraordinary, I'm told.
I wanted a bit of spectacle,
a bit of size and colour.
New New York in episode 1
has a retro 1930s feel to it,
as well as being a bit sci-fi
'cause it is the first time
we're going to an alien planet.
It's the first time David Tennant's
Doctor has taken Rose Tyler anywhere.
So, I'm sure he's going out to impress her.
-Apple grass.
-Apple grass.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm the Doctor. Still got it.
I'm the Doctor.
I'm the new boy, you know, so you do feel
like there's an awful lot to live up to now.
It's really exciting to know that
he's going to step onto the set.
Too hot.
And surprise us.
Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba.
It's good fun to be on set with them all.
We're having a laugh.
I think there's a huge
scale to this series.
I think our stories are bigger this year.
Expectations are higher because you have to
match or better what you've done before.
We knew we'd set a benchmark,
we had to at least meet it,
if not exceed it for people to say, "Okay, yeah,
it's still working. They can do it more than once."
Action.
Cut.
We are making a show about somebody
who travels through time in a police box.
It's a bit like a fairground
ride. It's great fun.
So it would be a shame not to enjoy that.
GATISS: So just how different will
this new Doctor be to his past incarnation?
Obviously, what you bring to it is
yourself and that happens for free,
you don't have any choice about that.
He's a very different man because
he's being played by a different man.
And David brings
a completely different energy to it.
-So where are we going?
-Further than we've ever gone before.
I think he's probably a more verbal Doctor.
Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth
New York since the original.
He's got very big lengthy speeches,
lots of runs of words.
So that makes it
New New New New New New New New New
New New New New New New York.
He's quite chaotic...
and he's very energetic.
Could have someone's eye out with that.
There are flashes of
darkness to the character.
What's the turnover, hmm?
Thousand a day? Thousand the next?
Thousand the next? How many thousand?
For how many years? How many?
And so there's a lot of
kind of lulling an audience
into him being a lovely kind of
interesting, fascinating character.
And then you absolutely see
what the moral line is.
I'm the Doctor.
If you don't like it, if you want to take
it to a higher authority, there isn't one.
It stops with me.
He has to be a good guy, he
has to be heroic. He has to be...
morally impregnable.
We can't let a single
particle of disease get out.
There is 10 million people in that city,
they'd all be at risk. Now turn that off!
Not if it gets me out.
All right, fine. So I have
to stop you lot as well.
And beyond that, it's
a kind of evolving thing.
But ultimately the script is always
what you've got to go on.
If I suddenly decided I
want to play it with a limp
and the script had me running up and down
corridors, then that's not going to work.
GATISS: All the scripts in series two
bring their own new challenge.
But as always, every scene in every episode
takes months of planning,
and dozens of personnel
to make Doctor Who reach new heights.
We're doing a sequence in the lift shaft
in the hospital on New New Earth.
There's the moment where the Doctor and Rose first
arrive in the building, walk into the Lift...
Ward 26, thanks.
...and this post-modern
disinfection sequence happens.
Hold on! Hold on!
-Oh, too late. I'm going up.
-All right, there's another lift.
Which, of course, the Doctor
knows all about and Rose doesn't.
-Watch out for the disinfectant.
-For the what?
The disinfectant.
-The what?
-The dis... Oh, you'll find out.
It means that both Billie and David
have to get soaking wet,
covered in talc and
blown dry several times.
MAN: You're whistling in the shower...
TENNANT: The first time we did it, it was
great, the water was all warm and lovely.
But with every successive take it's getting colder
and colder as they refill the tank in a hurry.
MAN: Cut!
-MAN 2: Cut.
-Thank you.
-I couldn't hear what you were saying, James.
-It's all right, love, it was fine.
It's quite a silly thing to do, really,
to stand in your clothes and get soaking.
It was a lot wetter than I was expecting.
Action!
The mind of Russell T Davies
is a very strange and curious place.
And it conjures up these extraordinary scenarios
which we get the great joy of acting out.
-We're falling off!
-Cut.
It's a hoot.
GATISS: Amidst all the fun on New Earth,
there's the return of one old face...
Peek-a-boo!
...to keep the Doctor
and Rose on their toes.
I thought it would be a good idea
to have a recurring villain
who everyone had enjoyed last year.
Ah! I'm drying out. Oh, sweet heavens.
Moisturise me, moisturise me!
I am too young!
I was very aware that again, there will be some
younger audience still sitting there saying,
"That's not my Doctor,"
and, "He's a different man."
I saw It.
You got ripped apart.
Moisturise me, moisturise me.
So there's just a bit of continuity,
just to smooth it over.
That piece of skin was taken from the
front of my body, this piece is the back.
-Right, so you're talking out of your...
-Ask not!
I also wanted to do a story
with the body swapping,
it's a chance for the Doctor to be funny.
-Open it!
-Not till you get out of her.
-We need the Doctor!
-I order you to leave her!
I always said you don't
have to impersonate her,
you have to be a Rose version of Cassandra,
and a Doctor version of Cassandra.
Their essence is still in there.
No matter how difficult the situation,
there is no need to shout.
And also a chance for the Rose to be funny.
Curves, oh, baby.
It's like living inside a bouncy castle.
Billie and David both did it brilliantly.
I mean, they took enough
of Cassandra's traits,
inspired by the performance that Zoë
Wanamaker had already given to Cassandra.
Ooh!
Her body language
changes, the voice changes.
Oh, my God! I'm a chav!
The whole expression
of Billie's face changes.
Ladykiller.
And she becomes this pouting, flirtatious,
terrifying female creature.
Who are you?
The last human.
Cassandra?
Wake up and smell the perfume.
Billie does it so brilliantly
for quite a long time and then...
So I don't think you're then expecting
that the Doctor will get possessed, too.
Blimey, my head.
It's an homage to Miss Wanamaker
and I think she'll be proud.
-Cassandra?
-Goodness me, I'm a man.
Yum...
I hope she will. She'll probably murder me
the next time she sees me.
So many parts and hardly used.
It also ups the stakes of the episode.
It's quite, in dramatic terms,
it's quite important that she can do this
and that she refuses to die.
I can't Adam and Eve it.
What's with the voice?
Oh, I don't know, just
larking about. New Earth.
New me.
With the kiss between
the Cassandra-Rose and the Doctor,
any sort of lip-to-lip contact with the Doctor
gets enormously exaggerated and people say,
"Oh, the programme's changed.
It's the death of Doctor Who."
I just sat there thinking,
"Well, if I'd been trapped in a frame,"
as Cassandra has for a
couple of thousand years,
"if I suddenly got a body,
and a very sexy body,"
"with Rose Tyler's body,
I'd want to snog someone."
And she can't bear the
Doctor. He killed her.
But nonetheless, he's there,
he's handsome, she has a bit of it.
Lovely.
GATISS: So the Doctor's
back with a new face,
a new suit and a whole new
set of adventures with Rose,
that looks set to be
bigger and better than ever.
-Are we in Scotland?
-Och, aye.
No, don't do that.
-Master.
-He recognises me!
Affirmative.
Where's Rose? Where is she?
The correct form of
address is Your Majesty.
Never mind what came before,
never mind what's coming after,
make this 45 minutes good
and then you're on a winner.
The last Doctor was possibly
the greatest Doctor that we'd ever seen.
Hello, Sarah Jane.
This guy David, is just... He's great, man.
I think we may have a new winner.
Bullets can't stop it.
there's a new Doc on the block.
Did you miss me?
He might look different,
he might sound different...
Fantastic.
...but when it comes to time travel,
he's the same old Doctor.
-You're so different.
-New new doctor.
It's a Doctor's life for David Tennant
and he's the perfect 19.
-Hello.
-Hello.
It's summer 2005, and the Doctor Who team
are battling with the elements to film
the opening scene of the brand-new series.
We're arriving on New Earth,
which is the Gower Peninsula near Swansea,
and it's blowing a gale.
Action.
-What's the city called?
-New New York.
Come on.
(LAUGHING)
Just a face full of hair!
Cut.
We were supposed to be here
slightly earlier in the summer
and various shooting schedule things
meant that we're a bit late.
So it's a little bit more
wintry than intended
but once the computer people have fiddled about
with it, it's going to look extraordinary, I'm told.
I wanted a bit of spectacle,
a bit of size and colour.
New New York in episode 1
has a retro 1930s feel to it,
as well as being a bit sci-fi
'cause it is the first time
we're going to an alien planet.
It's the first time David Tennant's
Doctor has taken Rose Tyler anywhere.
So, I'm sure he's going out to impress her.
-Apple grass.
-Apple grass.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm the Doctor. Still got it.
I'm the Doctor.
I'm the new boy, you know, so you do feel
like there's an awful lot to live up to now.
It's really exciting to know that
he's going to step onto the set.
Too hot.
And surprise us.
Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba.
It's good fun to be on set with them all.
We're having a laugh.
I think there's a huge
scale to this series.
I think our stories are bigger this year.
Expectations are higher because you have to
match or better what you've done before.
We knew we'd set a benchmark,
we had to at least meet it,
if not exceed it for people to say, "Okay, yeah,
it's still working. They can do it more than once."
Action.
Cut.
We are making a show about somebody
who travels through time in a police box.
It's a bit like a fairground
ride. It's great fun.
So it would be a shame not to enjoy that.
GATISS: So just how different will
this new Doctor be to his past incarnation?
Obviously, what you bring to it is
yourself and that happens for free,
you don't have any choice about that.
He's a very different man because
he's being played by a different man.
And David brings
a completely different energy to it.
-So where are we going?
-Further than we've ever gone before.
I think he's probably a more verbal Doctor.
Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth
New York since the original.
He's got very big lengthy speeches,
lots of runs of words.
So that makes it
New New New New New New New New New
New New New New New New York.
He's quite chaotic...
and he's very energetic.
Could have someone's eye out with that.
There are flashes of
darkness to the character.
What's the turnover, hmm?
Thousand a day? Thousand the next?
Thousand the next? How many thousand?
For how many years? How many?
And so there's a lot of
kind of lulling an audience
into him being a lovely kind of
interesting, fascinating character.
And then you absolutely see
what the moral line is.
I'm the Doctor.
If you don't like it, if you want to take
it to a higher authority, there isn't one.
It stops with me.
He has to be a good guy, he
has to be heroic. He has to be...
morally impregnable.
We can't let a single
particle of disease get out.
There is 10 million people in that city,
they'd all be at risk. Now turn that off!
Not if it gets me out.
All right, fine. So I have
to stop you lot as well.
And beyond that, it's
a kind of evolving thing.
But ultimately the script is always
what you've got to go on.
If I suddenly decided I
want to play it with a limp
and the script had me running up and down
corridors, then that's not going to work.
GATISS: All the scripts in series two
bring their own new challenge.
But as always, every scene in every episode
takes months of planning,
and dozens of personnel
to make Doctor Who reach new heights.
We're doing a sequence in the lift shaft
in the hospital on New New Earth.
There's the moment where the Doctor and Rose first
arrive in the building, walk into the Lift...
Ward 26, thanks.
...and this post-modern
disinfection sequence happens.
Hold on! Hold on!
-Oh, too late. I'm going up.
-All right, there's another lift.
Which, of course, the Doctor
knows all about and Rose doesn't.
-Watch out for the disinfectant.
-For the what?
The disinfectant.
-The what?
-The dis... Oh, you'll find out.
It means that both Billie and David
have to get soaking wet,
covered in talc and
blown dry several times.
MAN: You're whistling in the shower...
TENNANT: The first time we did it, it was
great, the water was all warm and lovely.
But with every successive take it's getting colder
and colder as they refill the tank in a hurry.
MAN: Cut!
-MAN 2: Cut.
-Thank you.
-I couldn't hear what you were saying, James.
-It's all right, love, it was fine.
It's quite a silly thing to do, really,
to stand in your clothes and get soaking.
It was a lot wetter than I was expecting.
Action!
The mind of Russell T Davies
is a very strange and curious place.
And it conjures up these extraordinary scenarios
which we get the great joy of acting out.
-We're falling off!
-Cut.
It's a hoot.
GATISS: Amidst all the fun on New Earth,
there's the return of one old face...
Peek-a-boo!
...to keep the Doctor
and Rose on their toes.
I thought it would be a good idea
to have a recurring villain
who everyone had enjoyed last year.
Ah! I'm drying out. Oh, sweet heavens.
Moisturise me, moisturise me!
I am too young!
I was very aware that again, there will be some
younger audience still sitting there saying,
"That's not my Doctor,"
and, "He's a different man."
I saw It.
You got ripped apart.
Moisturise me, moisturise me.
So there's just a bit of continuity,
just to smooth it over.
That piece of skin was taken from the
front of my body, this piece is the back.
-Right, so you're talking out of your...
-Ask not!
I also wanted to do a story
with the body swapping,
it's a chance for the Doctor to be funny.
-Open it!
-Not till you get out of her.
-We need the Doctor!
-I order you to leave her!
I always said you don't
have to impersonate her,
you have to be a Rose version of Cassandra,
and a Doctor version of Cassandra.
Their essence is still in there.
No matter how difficult the situation,
there is no need to shout.
And also a chance for the Rose to be funny.
Curves, oh, baby.
It's like living inside a bouncy castle.
Billie and David both did it brilliantly.
I mean, they took enough
of Cassandra's traits,
inspired by the performance that Zoë
Wanamaker had already given to Cassandra.
Ooh!
Her body language
changes, the voice changes.
Oh, my God! I'm a chav!
The whole expression
of Billie's face changes.
Ladykiller.
And she becomes this pouting, flirtatious,
terrifying female creature.
Who are you?
The last human.
Cassandra?
Wake up and smell the perfume.
Billie does it so brilliantly
for quite a long time and then...
So I don't think you're then expecting
that the Doctor will get possessed, too.
Blimey, my head.
It's an homage to Miss Wanamaker
and I think she'll be proud.
-Cassandra?
-Goodness me, I'm a man.
Yum...
I hope she will. She'll probably murder me
the next time she sees me.
So many parts and hardly used.
It also ups the stakes of the episode.
It's quite, in dramatic terms,
it's quite important that she can do this
and that she refuses to die.
I can't Adam and Eve it.
What's with the voice?
Oh, I don't know, just
larking about. New Earth.
New me.
With the kiss between
the Cassandra-Rose and the Doctor,
any sort of lip-to-lip contact with the Doctor
gets enormously exaggerated and people say,
"Oh, the programme's changed.
It's the death of Doctor Who."
I just sat there thinking,
"Well, if I'd been trapped in a frame,"
as Cassandra has for a
couple of thousand years,
"if I suddenly got a body,
and a very sexy body,"
"with Rose Tyler's body,
I'd want to snog someone."
And she can't bear the
Doctor. He killed her.
But nonetheless, he's there,
he's handsome, she has a bit of it.
Lovely.
GATISS: So the Doctor's
back with a new face,
a new suit and a whole new
set of adventures with Rose,
that looks set to be
bigger and better than ever.
-Are we in Scotland?
-Och, aye.
No, don't do that.
-Master.
-He recognises me!
Affirmative.
Where's Rose? Where is she?
The correct form of
address is Your Majesty.
Never mind what came before,
never mind what's coming after,
make this 45 minutes good
and then you're on a winner.
The last Doctor was possibly
the greatest Doctor that we'd ever seen.
Hello, Sarah Jane.
This guy David, is just... He's great, man.
I think we may have a new winner.
Bullets can't stop it.