The star and executive producer are teaming up again with Catherine Tate for 60th anniversary special episodes.
That man limbered up.
“We didn’t need any camera tricks.”
David Tennant in ‘Doctor Who - Special One: The Star Beast’.Sally Mais/BBC Studios
“Hes as fit as a fiddle,” Davies continues about his star.
“He’s gorgeous!”
Tennant reveals that this get-together was inspired by aDoctor Whotweet-along that took place during the pandemic.
David Tennant in ‘Doctor Who - Special One: The Star Beast’.Alistair Heap/BBC Studios
“Russell was running the show again and we were doing three in a row!”
Davies wrote all of the 60th anniversary episodes and describes them as “a mini-season, really.
It’s three different stories.
‘Doctor Who - Special One: The Star Beast’.Alistair Heap/BBC Studios
The first of those stories is titled “The Star Beast” and premieres onDisney+Nov.
Davies describes the episode as “a great big family film.
An alien spaceship falls in London, which is the Doctors meet and drink really.
David Tennant.James Pardon/BBC Studios
The story introduced the alien character of the Meep, voiced in the new episode by Miriam Margolyes.
“It’s from 1979, an absolute classic,” Davies says of the original strip.
“Pat Mills and David Gibbons, they were kids back then, but they created this marvelous thing.
I was thinking, that cant be what Im thinking of.
But, of course, Russell is a longtermDoctor Whofan, too, so of course it is.
It sort of is a perfect fit.”
Luckily enough, the director ofHeartstopperis a man called Euros Lyn who is an oldDoctor Whodirector.
So I was able to phone him up and say, ‘Whats Yasmin like?’
He just said, ‘Oh, cast her, cast her, cast her.’
Its a very lucky situation.
The list of people who would audition for that is not very long.
Along came Yasmin, and we just closed the door after that, because there she was!
We’re trying to keep it secret until transmission.”
“Oh, hesgood,” says the actor of theHow I Met Your Motherstar.
Has he told his agent to keep some time free ahead of the show’s 70th anniversary in 2033?
“What age will I be then?”
“Who knows if I will still be able to run up and down corridors.
TheDoctor Who60th anniversary special episodes will stream on Disney+.
See exclusive images above and watch the trailer for the shows below.
