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Doctor Who “The Doctor’s Wife” Suranne Jones & Neil Gaiman Interviews - SFX

Does Doctor Who demand a particular acting style?

“I’ve been told I was good at shakey-shakey acting. And I didn’t know I was doing shakey-shakey acting. Matt was particularly impressed with my shakey-shakey. He was like, ‘Yeah, man, that’s really good!’ Karen’s really good at windy-windy acting. There’s lots of wind involved in Doctor Who, isn’t there? Lots of things happen and they put a wind machine on you. All the scary stuff is like second nature to them. I think you’ve got to be fearless. If it’s greenscreen and you can’t actually see what you’re acting with, or you’re imagining that you’re being chased, to be fearless is the best thing, because if you do it half-hearted, then it just looks a bit wet.”

… How do you think people will react to “The Doctor’s Wife”?

Neil Gaiman: “I showed my episode to some friends, very, very nervously, having sworn them all to secrecy and having explained to them that if anybody found out I’d shown them it then the BBC would creep out in the night and cut off my testicles. And there’s a bit where Suranne [Jones] is talking, and I looked around at the room, and everybody’s looking at the TV screen, and on half the faces the cheeks were wet, the eyes were big – nobody’s looking away, nobody’s stopping and looking for a tissue or anything. I’m not even sure that they were aware that they were crying, except that they’ve got glistening cheeks… And I’m going ‘This is astonishing.’ She breaks your heart.”