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The Times Magazine interview, feb 11th:
Now 45, he’s well turned out in a jazzy jersey, which he pats down as if being frisked when I ask where it’s from. (He lets me check the label eventually and says, “Ah, Jaeger! It’ll be a Christmas present from Sandra, my mother-in-law, then.”) At the other end is a pair of suede Chelsea boots with startling neon yellow gussets, which his 32-year-old wife – the actress and producer Georgia Moffett – bought him from Penelope Chilvers.
And, of course, he met his wife on set (she was playing his daughter). Is it weird that he married the daughter of a previous Doctor? “It’s bizarre, bizarre!” he says, arms flailing aloft. “When you stop to think about it, it doesn’t make any sense at all. The likelihood of it is so remote – especially as I grew up in Paisley and our worlds were so far apart. And yet here we are.”
“Doctor Who is inescapable in our house. It runs through our house as if through the middle of a stick of rock. Our life has a Doctor Who backbone.”
The couple have four children – Ty, 14 (whom he adopted), Olive, 6, Wilfred, 4, and Doris, 1. I try to imagine him at home, reading bedtime stories. Does he do the accents? “Of course!” When the kids aren’t impressed, “I entertain myself,” he says.
“Kids will choose when to be impressed. The minute you think, they’ll love this, they couldn’t care less. And then some weird little thing you did that you haven’t even thought about they’ll think is the coolest thing you’ve ever done.”
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