Behind the Scenes of Wild Blue Yonder - Part Two
Excerpt from Emily Cook's Behind the Scenes of Wild Blue Yonder article in DWM #598
Today, David and Catherine are spending most of their time running up and down these corridors. It feels so very traditionally Doctor Who. There’s even a sign up in the studio, above a selection of storyboards, proclaiming it’s “Running Day”. Tom [Kingsley, director] is looking at the storyboards, framing the next shot. “My worry is he’s going to catch up with her quite quickly, so we need to start her further back.” “We’re going to do one more practice with the doubles,” announces 1st assistant director Gareth Tandy. There are two sets of Doctor and Donna doubles wandering around in costume today: stunt doubles Renato Gjini and Kim McGarrity and body doubles George Cheetham and Helen Langford. Plus the real David and Catherine, of course. Catch a Doctor or Donna out of the corner of your eye, and it’s hard to tell who’s who. “I think it’s weirder for other people than it is for us,” says Catherine. “Yes, because we know we’re not them,” says David, “whereas other people get confused. There is a requirement for doubles in this episode because we often have to be in the same shot twice.”
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