Behind the Scenes of The Doctor’s Daughter - Part 5
Excerpt from the Podcast Commentary from The Doctor’s Daughter, featuring David Tennant, showrunner Russell T. Davies, and director Alice Troughton
RTD: I've got to say, once and forever, we did not cast Georgia Moffett just because she's Peter Davison's daughter
DT: Well, it is a PR coup
RTD: it's irresistible, but I absolutely swear to God - it's like, we auditioned Georgia for the Unicorn and the Wasp, which is next week's episode, for the part of Robina Redmond, but we knew we had this script coming up, and literally we were dreading it. Months before we were thinking, "Who the hell do we cast as Jenny? This is really tough and we have no idea." Georgia came in for that audition and we all just went, "Well that's her!" And the episodes are actually shot many months apart so we had the really weird situation of saying to her, "Can you wait many months? We promise you there's a great part coming up" Which is hard for a young actor - they've got other jobs and other offers. We sent her the very first draft script and she loved it - of course, she could see what a great part that was - and kept herself free. Literally she was so talented - who else could you cast for that part?
AT: She's perfect
DT: Yeah. She is terrific in this, yeah. I thought it was Phil [Collinson - producer] who had first come across Georgia on one of his jollies to Monte Carlo.
RTD: Oh - he says that.
DT: He's been claiming it was all his...
RTD: Apparently he wrote it and he's actually playing the Doctor in this [ David and Alice laugh ]
Other parts of this set: [One] [Two] [Three] [Four] [ Links to all Doctor Who Behind-the-Scenes sets ]
