It’s Monday, 20 March 2008. A man who looks like David Tennant paces around the Dalek Crucible. This man is Collum Sanson-Regan. He’s Irish, not Scottish, and he only looks like David from behind, really. But that’s good enough. He’s sporting the brown pinstripe suit, while David - the real David - wears the blue suit. All day long, the lead actor and his double have been dashing off every half hour or so, to swap costumes. Each scene is shot once with David in the brown suit, and then once again with him in the blue. Collum likewise. Logistically, it’s a nightmare.
How is David keeping track of which Doctor is which? “Well, obviously, the colour-coding is a clue,” he laughs, “but I know what you mean - are they two distinct performances? Well, slightly. There are different thought processes going on. And I’ve underlined them in different colours in the script, which is a big deal. It shows I mean business! They’re different characters, but they’ve both got to be the Doctor. It’s the same character, but it’s not. It’s a tricky one, because Rose, at the end, you want to feel that she is left with the person that she loves, but also that she isn’t. It’s quite a subtle, ambiguous ending for Rose.”
Which suit does David prefer: the brown or the blue? “I change my mind, actually. The blue suits are getting a bit baggy,” he says, “but we’ve got some new ones coming in, which is great. If you look at the brown suit now, it’s beginning to get a bit tatty. But I don’t mind that. I quite like a bit of tatty.” And did he enjoy getting naked in the TARDIS in Journey’s End? DWM can’t imagine so. “No, not really,” he confirms. “It came at the end of a long shoot. You don’t exactly have a chance to go to the gym when you’re filming Doctor Who every month, so it wasn’t ideal timing. But it was very quick.”
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