[News] Jenna-Louise Coleman article

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This is an article from today's local New Zealand Herald newspaper
(TimeOut entertainment magazine section) ...

Who's near-new crew
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'Doctor Who's new companion, Jenna-Louise Coleman, talks to
Scott Kara about going fulltime on the sci-fi series.

She's yet to take over officially as 'Doctor Who's new
companion, but actress Jenna-Louise Coleman is already a
familiar, and it has to be said, rather fecthing and pretty
face in the long-running sci-fi series.

She first appeared in the best episode of last year's
seventh series, 'Asylum of the Daleks', in which the Doctor
was confronted by an insane army of dastardly villains.
Coleman played Oswin Oswald and spent the entire episode
holed up "in a space pod by myself talking to a green circle",
which she calls her 'Doctor Who' crash course.

She starred again in last year's Christmas special as Clara
Oswald, a barmaid-cum-"Mary Poppins-like governess" from the
1800s, which is where her regular role in the series picked
up. Although, in typical 'Doctor Who' style, when the second
part of series seven starts on 11 April [in New Zealand] she
will again be playing Clara, but this time living in
modern-day London.

"It's a strange thing, because especially with the nature of
Clara's entrances to the show, the 'Asylum of the Daleks' was
the beginning, and the Christmas episode was a new beginning,
and it's the same with this season. It's as if we are starting
again," she says on the phone from London.

Coleman believes head writer and producer Steven Moffat has
been clever in the way he has drip-fed the introduction of
Clara in light of the popularity of former companions Amy Pond
and Rory Williams.

"When you've spent three years with such well-loved characters
as Amy and Rory, it's a blow for fans to lose a companion that
you really care about, and I think it's always going to be
really difficult to bring somebody else in, but I think Steven
created a lot of mystery around Clara and by doing that people
want to know more."

And the up-for-it and lippy Clara - apparently one of the
reasons Moffat chose Coleman for the character was because she
could talk faster than current Doctor and fellow motormouth
Matt Smith ("He's a big tease. He's like my older brother.") -
has been well and truly accepted by Whovians following her two
appearances.

Not that Coleman has had time to worry about that sort of
thing.

"I'm quite removed from it in a sense because even though life
is pretty much just as it was before, I'm really busy and now
I've got a really cool job," she says of her biggest role to
date after getting her start in the mid-2000s on British soap
Emmerdale Farm.

And during 'Doctor Who''s 50th anniversary year - it started
in 1963, then took an extended break from 1989 before resuming
in 2005 - what better time for the Doctor to reveal another,
more romantic, side to his character. Because during the
Christmas special there was an intense spark between the pair.
Not that Coleman is giving anything away about how their
relationship develops in the coming series.

"I'm sure audiences will be looking out for it, and they have
an advantage, over the two characters even, because they have
experienced the Christmas special, but this series is a whole
new beginning again," she says. "That sounds like such an
unsatisfying answer," she adds with a laugh. "But one of the
things that is explained in this series is that there is
nothing the Doctor dislikes more than something he can't
solve, something he can't explain, and that's exactly what
Clara is. He can't figure her out. They are drawn together,
and really like each other, but there's always this underlying
feeling of them both trying to figure each other out. It's not
plain sailing between them both."
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SPOILER SPACE (minor plot spoilers for new episodes)
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In the upcoming episode, the Doctor is searching for Clara in
London, but something evil and dangerous has taken over the
city's wifi network, wending its way into people's minds, and
Clara becomes a target. When she and the Doctor do finally
hook up - as companions, not as a couple - they become
trapped in a Russian submarine, battle monsters on an alien
planet, and confront everything from the Crimson Horror to an
army of Cybermen.

"One day you're on a submarine, the next day you're on an
alien planet doing stunts. I've never done a job where I've
run around so much. You're running towards something, and
running away from something all the time."

The way she talks about 'Doctor Who' you'd think she was a
believer. But although she grew up knowing who the Doctors
were (even from the original series), she was never a fan.
And this, she says, allowed her to put a new twist on who
and what a Doctor's companion is meant to be - and it was an
approach Moffat encouraged.

"I went into the audition not having any preconceptions, and
knowing Matt [Smith] vaguely as the Doctor, so it elicited
this kind of spontaneous response, which is what I think
Steven liked. So he was really strong on me not watching
anything to do with ['Doctor Who']."

And now you may say she is a bit of a fan of the show.
"What's wonderful about it is, I can't really think of
anything like it on TV. And it's limitless in many ways
because it's always got potential to evolve and that's the
reason it's been around for the past 50 years."

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

"Your Name" <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote in message
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>
> "I went into the audition not having any preconceptions, and
> knowing Matt [Smith] vaguely as the Doctor, so it elicited
> this kind of spontaneous response, which is what I think
> Steven liked. So he was really strong on me not watching
> anything to do with ['Doctor Who']."

Some people have a nasty habit of not liking or being able to work with
people who are not like themselves. I think, Moffat may be guilty of this
hence the ding-dong with Skinner. Moffat also can't delegate and
procrastinates, and ragequit twitter. Dude needs to see a shrink before
someone complains to HR and gets his ass kicked out the door.

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Charles E. Hardwidge

[The Doctor]

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Ambitious Coleman.

Looks exciting.
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