1. In this episode,
we reflect on that challenging
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3. You, sir, are not one of us.
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4. You will die out there!
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5. And I can save your lives.
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6. That was
an incredibly intense scene
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7. to start Doctor Who on.
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8. We reveal how the Dot And Bubble
went from low-tech to high-spec.
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9. Tell me you're on Doctor Who without
telling me you're on Doctor Who.
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10. We unravel the making
of those homicidal slugs.
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11. And spoiler alert - we've got
an Unleashed exclusive clip
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12. from the next Doctor Who episode.
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13. Welcome to Doctor Unleashed.
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14. It's 11 o'clock at night,
- 2 degrees.
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15. Ncuti Gatwa is about to shoot
his very first scene of the series.
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16. I suppose I should say thank you.
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17. It's OK.
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18. Do you know, we handed
that script to Ncuti, and I was wary.
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19. I was thinking, "My God," especially
cos this is the first thing he shot.
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21. It's called the TARDIS. OK?
That blue box.
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with David,
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at the end of episode five
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his first proper day.
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in the ep, but it's the moment
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and everyone is white
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30. and you're just like, "Ah!"
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31. We can't travel with you.
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32. What? Why not?
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33. Because you, sir, are not one of us.
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34. We were all kind of
holding our breaths, thinking,
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35. "That's no way you'd start any
lead actor off." We talked about it.
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should we let him settle in?
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we decide to go for it, and bang.
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He just hits it
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40. and it's one of the most remarkable
performances I've ever seen.
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45. I will do... anything...
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47. ..to save your lives.
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49. And I can save your lives.
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50. Now let me.
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51. It'll be interesting to see
the response to this episode.
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to this episode
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53. is going to be about the ending.
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people will have worked that out
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55. before the ending,
because they've seen white person
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56. after white person
after white person.
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is very diverse.
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into it? Will you be 15?
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Before you start to think,
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60. "Everyone in this community
is white."
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why didn't you?
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of television
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was that episode.
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an incredibly intense scene
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to get my teeth into it.
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and January 2023,
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side by side with 73 Yards.
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of a back seat in this episode,
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performing down an Autocue lens.
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I'm here to save you.
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to Lindy Pepper-Bean,
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77. a character who ultimately reveals
herself to be entitled and racist.
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78. She's played by upcoming stage
and screen actor Callie Cooke.
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find the right person to play Lindy,
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81. because she is, in the end,
an absolutely abhorrent character.
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82. But you've got to be with her
on her way there,
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83. and she's got to be sort of
really flaky and breezy
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85. Do I need to pee?
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86. Urine content is zero
for the third day in a row.
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88. So she had to sort of encompass
all these things in one hit.
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I've ever done that. Oh, well.
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92. It's not every day we walk past
monsters. No, I mean the hug.
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93. That was your first hug? Yeah.
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94. And then once she turns,
you have to be really surprised.
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95. His surname is Coombes!
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96. He was born Richard Coombes,
cos I know everything about him.
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97. He changed his name
to Ricky September
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99. But check your files -
he was born Coombes.
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this amazing actress...
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102. Lindy!
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unanimously our favourite choice
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and she was the only one
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so brilliantly
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all the characters all at once.
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I've never done it before.
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of having to be liked all the time.
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110. But I guess I just had to, you know,
see her as she is,
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without judgment
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I hope, that...
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the first to say she's a psychopath.
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Lindy Pepper-Bean is a character.
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the two couldn't be more different.
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121. Day one. Day one.
Day one, scene one.
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I don't know. I don't ever know.
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125. So I'm reading everyone else's lines
off camera,
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126. and then these all leave tomorrow
and then I'm on my own
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127. for the next six weeks. Six weeks,
it's just you on your own? Yeah.
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actually, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
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129. But before Callie gets to go solo,
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of killing off Ricky September.
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131. Check your files. He was born
Coombes. C comes before P!
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Callie Cooke go through
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transformation on this day,
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if slightly narcissistic person,
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in this scene,
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her love interest to save herself.
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It's kind of the first reveal
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she actually is.
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142. Brilliant Callie,
as Lindy Pepper-Bean, is literally
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of the entire episode.
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145. not just a guest lead role,
but the lead of the show.
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146. Action.
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a Doctor Who episode
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Doctor in the way that this doesn't.
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a little feature film.
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has been led by someone other
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no-one has led a Doctor Who episode
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that would be nice.
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159. as Sally Sparrow in Blink,
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160. a Doctor-lite episode
that also saw the first appearance
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Don't blink.
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Don't even blink.
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helped propel Carey Mulligan
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166. So no pressure, Callie.
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167. And what better place for Lindy
to hide in plain sight
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for the rich of the home world.
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of hours' work in data processing,
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of Black Mirror, Finetime.
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cos that is probably
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going to turn out to be.
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has a knack for that.
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quite a lot.
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of social media.
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that projects
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and all the family
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in a literal bubble around you.
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188. It's like a metaphor.
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189. Art imitates life,
doesn't it?
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and what it can do
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is very much...
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of the human condition
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Now we have to work.
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how boring it would be.
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sort of showing, I think,
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a close friends list,
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your close friends list
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of view into your circle.
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how that blinds you to the world.
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literally becomes a monster
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right next to you, eating you up.
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it's about the society
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you're in.
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211. Absolutely not. It's terrifying.
It's going to kill me.
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all day every day.
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You'd get tunnel vision.
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with all this.
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for you. It does make life easier.
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with, like, a sat nav. Yeah.
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for anyone here. No, no.
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should get a Dot.
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wrong, I'm not one of them.
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that would kill me.
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on Doctor Unleashed,
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on my work experience...
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there, isn't it?
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their best moves.
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233. from the next episode of Doctor Who.
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235. From the Krynoids to the Reapers
to the Vashta Nerada,
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Doctor Who creatures
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gloopy, slurpy or gnarly eater
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are probably
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there is in the new series.
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of things in Doctor Who
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a kind of language to them
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new design for a Doctor Who Monster.
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to Neill Gorton and the team
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and the claws,
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has been saying, "More gunge!
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Disgusting.
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had to make the man-traps.
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by the team.
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a week and a half. So all of this
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carved-in texture, detail.
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I don't want to...
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.. where Darren's working.
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It feels alien and fleshy.
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using foam latex panels
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to create the seven-foot creature.
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when lots of the detail
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computer-generated VFX?
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collaborating with VFX.
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do something CGI,
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thing that people can interact with.
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to deliver a performance
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in front of them
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they're meant to be playing against.
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a prototype man-trap
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is ready for its first taste test.
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for the man-trap.
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everything out.
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being had.
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how it moves.
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how it eats people at the moment.
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to be eaten and not me.
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that we just get that life
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and to co-ordinate the puppeteers.
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an open radio inside,
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inside this mollusc?
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We just got out of the man-trap.
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How's your lower back?
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the Christmas episode
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operating the Goblin King.
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the first time I've met them,
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before the Christmas special.
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the upper fingers.
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in my teeth,
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with my head. Wow!
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the big flaps that open and close.
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and then I'm using my hands
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Yeah, yeah. Ah, right.
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hand controls in there
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tentacles at the front.
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through the man-trap. Yeah.
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outside who's giving us the feedback
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and what the director wants
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the performance. Yeah.
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so we can see what the camera sees
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that way as well.
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each other pretty well by now!
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one might say. Yeah.
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was used on set throughout
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was added in post-production
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that would do the work to be there,
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the kind of eating of the humans
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because we would have had to make
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to eat a human.
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a digital one.
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those tentacles to life.
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snaky, kind of awful things
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the belly of the man-trap."
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kind of overlaying
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of them to life.
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utterly amazed that we made...
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and I'm so excited by it.
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really complicated...
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how complicated it was,
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episode to make.
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Polka Dot Bikini by Bombalurina
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inside Lindy's bubble
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to an actor or supporting artist,
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in a 48-hour flurry at Wolf Studios.
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Such a super day!
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filming the screens.
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of them were SAs who came in
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putting themselves in for.
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was her sister! Ah!
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in the kind of sea of faces,
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hundreds or thousands of people
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with about 30 different SAs
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costume looks and hair looks
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a little different, and to film them
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sort of side by side
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and we had four or five, I think,
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rolling simultaneously.
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I mean, it's...
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because Doctor Who
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to be a part
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It's like a dream come true.
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Like, it's great, isn't it?
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We're having such a good time.
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really full circle,
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Doctor Who fan. Were you?
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of when...
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407. Oh, my God, that is... I've got
my sonic screwdriver. Oh, my God.
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You look so cute. So...
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And now you've started to realise
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are missing
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the Dot and Bubble system,
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each other about it on action.
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We gave them props.
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to get them to dance
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cos it's incredibly awkward
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in front of a whole crew.
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characters at the same time
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alphabetically selective slugs...
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as ABC.
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Dylan,
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in particular to life?
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Yeah, the Bubble.
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It's got to be the Bubble.
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is that Callie's character, Lindy,
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at all times. Yeah.
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over her head with every single shot
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that will kind of work for that,
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we're going to bring in later. Yeah.
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all the time,
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440. That's always a good place to be,
isn't it? "I think this works."
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directions I've ever had to write,
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works and what the screens do.
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443. Forward. Forward. Forward.
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with some drawings
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on the page,"
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447. and showing the screen is just
turning around someone's head.
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bring in the Bubble.
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Yeah.
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screens. Different screens, right?
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Just on the head.
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kind of like that
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the actual Bubble reference.
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as accurate as you can get it...
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Thank you.
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Spare a thought for Callie,
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my eyes will be flickering, like,
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in between, talking to everyone,
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on the side.
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It's such a super day.
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morning routine in her apartment,
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leading us into the bathroom.
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having the camera drag,
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so I was harnessed into the dolly
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of it, I look ridiculous.
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I got harnessed in.
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Christina Aguilera in a music video.
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of the operation?
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ground-breaking
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sophisticated, sci-fi...
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this is not sophisticated?
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It's just sellotape
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It is cute, I'll give you that.
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where Lindy and Ricky
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in the episode,
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do anything physically in camera.
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and imaginary.
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around with a stick,
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stare into space for the Dot.
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what's going on.
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and whacking nothing. Yeah.
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on keeping its creatures
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the Wrarth Warriors,
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you can touch and feel.
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not built entirely on computers.
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that helps smooth the transition
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to what ends up on the screen.
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to be a VFX assistant.
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throughout this series
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and a paint samples chart.
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Doctor Who's weird worlds
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holding silver balls? Well...
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and there's a matte-grey side. Yeah.
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There you go.
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you are, you are, you're great.
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of a VFX assistant's toolkit,
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create a map of the light sources.
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Get the silver balls in.
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artists can use that information
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of the scene.
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from the silver side,
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sources are coming from. Right.
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on the grey side,
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of that.
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to the post-production of it,
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to match the elements.
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painting your room or...?
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just pick and choose your colour.
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a general colour chart
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to the creature as well.
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visual effects work." Right.
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on the set of Doctor Who?
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as a cast PA
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who plays Wilf. Yeah.
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to be a runner
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that just...
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.. start working on set,
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figuring out what you like,
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I think that's the thing.
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get on to set somehow, some way.
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to talk to different people
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as well. And you never know.
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Right. Yeah.
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Sarah needs to be alert
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are required. Me?
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Next shot.
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sprung out.
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and stand in front of the camera,
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you'd spin it,
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like, rotational movement
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Yeah. Like that? That's it.
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That'd be embarrassing, wouldn't it?
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It's quite slippery, isn't it? Ooh.
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of cache, like,
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and there's a big monster there.
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Coming for your job, Sarah.
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